Teaching and research: Specialty Training Interview Questions Australia
Teaching you have done and how you will teach as a registrar, feedback you have acted on, research involvement and your plan for college exams.
Updated 26 October 2026
How to answer
One teaching example with evidence it worked. Be honest about research. Have a credible plan for exam preparation that fits a full time roster.
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 →
Tell us about your teaching experience and how you would teach interns and students as a registrar.
What you taught, to whom, how you planned it, how you knew it worked and what feedback you got. Then how you would teach interns and students as a registrar: on the ward round, at handover, in protected sessions. One example in depth.
What research have you been involved in?
Honest and specific: your role, the question, what it found, what you learned about the process. If you have none, say what you have done instead and why research matters to your specialty.
Tell us about a time you learned from feedback.
The feedback, what you did with it, and the change. Say how you seek feedback now. Panels score the absence of defensiveness.
How do you plan to prepare for college exams?
A realistic plan: a timetable, study leave, a course, a study group, the exam's structure, and protecting rest. Say how you have managed exams alongside work before.