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The FRACP Examinations The examination in adult medicine is broadly based and comprises 2 sections: the Written Examination and the Clinical Examination. To successfully complete the examination, trainees must satisfy the Committee for Examinations (CFE) in the Written Examination before proceeding to the Clinical Examination. Candidates are required to successfully complete the Clinical Examination within a period of 59 months (five years) of passing the Written Examination. Candidates who do not pass the Clinical Examination within this period must again undertake and pass the Written Examination. A detailed syllabus for the examination is not issued but the Curriculum for Basic Training forms a useful resource. Trainees are also expected to be familiar with material in current textbooks of adult medicine, and with relevant aspects of basic sciences applicable to adult medicine and therapeutics. Texts in the major specialties are useful but not essential. Topics that are covered during the basic training together with general coverage of review articles, annotations and editorial comments in appropriate medical journals are an essential part of preparation for the examination. Trainees are expected to be familiar with advances in physiology and biochemistry applicable to adult medicine. Recommended journals are listed under Clinical Examination Guidelines, although reading should not be confined to these journals. On the other hand, trainees are not expected to be familiar with the content of advanced adult medicine in specialist journals. |  |
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