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Eligibility

To be eligible to sit the assessment, you must:

• apply by the due date
• have at least 2 full years of postgraduate supervised training in general medical and surgical areas
• be in an accredited training position or on an approved training interruption
• have current medical registration
• be in your first or second year of Advanced Training
• comply with requirements in Progression Through Training Policy 

If you have outstanding training fees, you're ineligible to sit the exam. See College Fees Terms and Conditions.

Exam attempt limit

You cannot continue Advanced Training if you exceed the examination attempt limit, which is based on when you commenced training.

See Progression Through Training Policy for more information about examination attempts.

Overseas Trained Physicians | Check eligibility requirements with your overseas trained physicians case officer before applying.

Application process

Submit your application

Submit your application by 5pm AEDT, Friday, 24 March 2023.

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Application confirmation

After applying, you get an email confirmation. If you don't receive this, check your junk/spam folders and contact us if you can't find it.

Your exam venue

After your eligibility is confirmed, we email your venue allocation details, including additional steps you must take.

Submit a separate application for Module 2 Clinical Assessment.

Withdrawal

Withdrawals are not counted as exam attempts. Contact us to withdraw up until the start of the exam. Refund rules apply. See College Fees Terms and Conditions for more information.

To request a refund for withdrawal on medical or compassionate grounds, submit an application form under the Special Consideration for Assessment Policy.

If you withdraw, you can re-apply to sit the exam the following year if you meet the eligibility criteria. Application fees will not be rolled over from one year to another.

Special consideration

Applications for special consideration must be submitted using the Special Consideration for Assessment application form and guide.

We'll consider these circumstances before the exam:

• permanent and longstanding impairment
• temporary impairment with medical grounds
• non-medical compassionate grounds or serious disruption
• essential commitments (religious, cultural, societal or legal obligations)

Once you start the exam, only technical or procedural problems will be considered.

For more information on application requirements and the possible outcomes, see the Special Consideration for Assessment Policy.

Prepare

Exam format 

10 minutes reading | 2.5 hour exam | 100 multiple-choice questions (MCQs)

The exam is a summative assessment. It covers a range of subspecialties, based on basic and clinical sciences, including:

• clinical medicine, including clinical pharmacology
• clinical surgery, including anatomy, physiology and pathology

The exam is developed by the Faculty Assessment Committee to assess clinical knowledge. It samples a cross-section of required areas of competence as defined by the General Rehabilitation Medicine Advanced Training Curriculum (PDF).

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs)

Each MCQ includes 4 answer options with only 1 correct answer. See the Module 1 MCQ examples.

Subject weighting

Note: These weightings are target percentages of topic areas used to develop the exam. Actual content breakdowns can vary. Questions can belong to more than one topic area.

Readings

You’re expected to be familiar with:

• material in current internal medicine textbooks
• content of advanced medicine in specialist journals
• relevant aspects of basic sciences applicable to internal medicine and therapeutics
• general coverage of review articles, annotations and editorial comments in appropriate medical journals
• recent advances in physiology and biochemistry applicable to internal medicine

Texts in the major specialties are useful but not essential.

Exam day

Example timetable

Personal items

Bring

• Printed copy of your allocation letter confirming your name, candidate number and venue
• Current photo ID with your full name and signature, for example a passport or driver licence – digital IDs are not accepted
• Blue or black ballpoint pens (no pencils, gel or felt-tip pens)
• Basic analogue watch (optional)
• Water (optional)

Tip: Wear additional clothing layers to adjust to the room temperature.

Not permitted

• Written material (other than your allocation letter)
• Calculators
• Food or beverages (other than water)
• All other belongings, for example bags

During the exam, all mobile phones, digital watches, sport watches, smart watches (including but not limited to Apple watch, Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung), pagers and electronic communication devices must be switched off, placed on the floor under your desk and visible to the invigilators.

Devices that sound during the exam will be subject to an incident report.

Seating arrangements

Seating is allocated to you when you arrive at the venue.

Discuss seating enquiries with the Chief Supervisor as early as possible on exam day.

Leaving the exam room

Do not leave the exam room without an invigilator’s approval. If you need the toilet, an invigilator will escort you. If you want to leave before the end of the exam, stay seated and raise your hand. An invigilator will check your materials and release you.

You cannot leave in the first 30 minutes or last 10 minutes of the exam.

When you've completed the exam, all materials are collected before you can leave.

The content of all documents is confidential and cannot be removed from the exam room. You’re not permitted to reproduce or distribute exam materials at any time or in any way. Doing so is a breach of the Academic Integrity in Training Process.

Results

Marking

For each question answered correctly, 1 mark is awarded. Marks are not deducted for incorrect answers. To pass, you must get a score equal to or higher than the pass mark.

See previous exam pass rates.

Results email

You receive an email with your exam result. Ensure we have your current email address and contact number. Contact us if you don’t receive the email.

Next steps

You can sit the Module 1 Assessment and the Module 2 Clinical Assessment in any order. We recommend you attempt both exams in the first year of Advanced Training.

Refer to the eligibility criteria and exam attempts set out in the Progression Through Training Policy and the General Rehabilitation Medicine Advanced Training Program handbook.