**ABSTRACT**
Doctors are placed under significant pressure to engage in research for career progression. Our review suggests that research selection criteria for specialty training programs incentivise high-volume, CV-padding research, focusing on quantity and authorship position over research quality. These selection criteria may be unintended drivers of research waste.
**PUBLICATION**
Withers, C., Noble, C., Brandenburg, C., Glasziou, P.P. and Stehlik, P. (2021), Selection criteria for Australian and New Zealand medical specialist training programs: another under-recognised driver of research waste. Med J Aust. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51250