Teaching and research: RMO and Registrar Interview Questions Australia

Teaching you have done, plans for college exams or training applications, and feedback you have acted on.

Updated 26 October 2026

How to answer

One teaching example with evidence it worked. Have a credible plan for exams or training applications. Describe how you seek feedback and one change you made because of it.

Frameworks: STAR for teaching examples

  • STAR Situation in a sentence, Task: what you had to do, Action: what you did in the first person, Result: the outcome with a number where there is one. Add Reflection for STARR. Full guide →
  1. Asked in most interviewsUsually asked by the head of departmentSTARR

    What teaching have you done, and how would you teach medical students and interns here?

    What you taught, to whom, how you planned it, and how you knew it worked. Then how you would teach students and interns here: on the ward round, at handover, in small sessions. One example in depth.

  2. Often askedUsually asked by the college representativeSTARR

    What are your plans for college exams or training applications?

    A specific plan: the college, the exam and when, the training application and its requirements, and what you are doing now to prepare. Panels want to see that you will progress.

  3. Often askedUsually asked by the head of departmentSTARR

    Tell us about a time you learned from feedback.

    The feedback, what you did with it, and the change. Say how you now seek feedback. Panels score the absence of defensiveness.

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