Medical Training Review Panel 19th Report

Part II Examinations	112	92
82.1
Psychiatry	..	na	na	na
Public health medicine	Final Program Assessment	13	10	76.9
Radiation oncology	Phase 2 Written and Clinical Vivas	21	17	81.0
Radiodiagnosis	Part 2 FRANZCR Examination
	Written and Vivas	111	83	74.8
Rehabilitation medicine	Written Short-Answer	37	33	89.2
	Written MCQ	43	41	95.3
	Clinical	55	44	80.0
Sexual health medicine	Exit Assessment Interview	7	5	71.4
Sport and exercise medicine	Written	12	7	58.3
	Clinical	8	6	75.0
Surgery^(b)	Fellowship	281	225	80.1

1. 
   Excludes overseas trained specialists referred to as Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) by RANZCOG and NZ trainees.
   
2. 
   Includes Australian, New Zealand, overseas and International Medical Graduate trainees.
   
3. 
   There were 4 trainees exempt from the written examination in 2014.
   
4. 
   Number of registrars who sat all three exams in 2014 calendar year.
   
5. 
   Data reflect number of registrars who completed their last Fellowship exam in 2014 calendar year. They may have sat exams prior to 2014.
   

Source: Medical colleges

Table 4.37 presents the examination outcomes for the additional examinations that are required as part of some college training programs. The data cover Australian trainees only.

Table 4.37: Vocational trainees undertaking additional examinations: Numbers and proportions passing by medical specialty, 2014

Medical specialty	Examination	Time held	Trainees sitting	Trainees passing	Proportion passing (%)
Adult medicine	Written	February	802	551	68.7
	Clinical	July	761	544	71.5
Anaesthesia	Primary Written		220	152
	Primary Oral		152	127	57.7
Dermatology	Pharmacology	May	24	20	83.3
	Pharmacology	November	6	6	100.0
Emergency medicine	Primary - Anatomy	February/ August	435	324	74.5
	Primary - Pathology	February/ August	401	343	85.5
	Primary - Physiology	February/ August	436	330	75.7
	Primary - Pharmacology	February/ August	398	333	83.7
	^(c)Viva	March/ September	386	283	73.3
Intensive care medicine^(a)	Part I	May and November	61	31	50.8
Ophthalmology	^(d)Ophthalmic sciences	2	29	27	93.1
	Ophthalmic Basic
	Competencies and
	Knowledge (OBCK)	2	29	27	93.1
	Ophthalmic pathology	2	25	25	100.0
Oral and maxillofacial	The Surgical Sciences and
surgery	Training (SST) Examination	May	12	9	75.0
Paediatrics	Written	February	237	164	69.2
	Clinical	July	238	181	76.1
Pathology	Basic pathology sciences	April	39	30	76.9
	Part 1	May/August	132	106	80.3
Psychiatry^(b):	^(e)Case Histories	November	374	274	73.3
Basic training	Written	February/August	219	121	55.3
	Clinical (OSCE only)	April/September	164	136	82.9
Radiation oncology	Phase 1	Once	26	18	69.2
Radiodiagnosis	Part 1	Twice Yearly	98	66	67.3
Surgery^(c)	Clinical Exam	May and September	203	186	91.6
	Surgical Science Exam
	(Generic)	May and September	254	174	68.5
	Surgical Science
	(Specialty Specific)	May and September	248	129	52.0

1. 
   Includes all trainees from the general intensive care and paediatric intensive care training programs.
   
2. 
   Figures reflect candidates competing the 2003 Fellowship program only. For the first time candidates in the 2012 Fellowship program sat the new written exam formats in 2014. Pass rate for the Multiple Choice Questions paper was 74.5% (38 out of 51 candidates passed).
   
3. 
   Viva exam is sat after passing the first 4 components.
   
4. 
   The figure for the 5 ophthalmic sciences is calculated as the number of trainees who sat and passed all their exams at the 18 month point of their training (trainees may have attempted the exams more than once).
   
5. 
   Case Histories include the First Presentation Case and Psychological Methods Case.
   

Source: Medical colleges

Trends

Tables 4.38 and 4.39 provide data on the number of vocational trainees passing their final or fellowship examinations and how these vary as a proportion of the total sitting each year from 2010 to 2014. Some specialties show considerable variation from one year to the next in the numbers and proportions passing each year.

This data should be interpreted cautiously, due to various college training requirements and changes to these across the years, and also due to relatively small numbers sitting examinations in some specialties.

Table 4.38: Vocational trainees who passed final or fellowship examination by medical specialty, 2010-2014

Medical specialty	Examination	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Anaesthesia	Fellowship	169	176	229	212	214
Anaesthesia - Pain medicine	Fellowship	15	23	22	27	32
Dermatology	Fellowship Written	18	20	17	30	17
	Fellowship Clinical	16	19	17	25	19
Emergency medicine		76	83	116	131	138
General practice	^(a)RACGP Fellowship Exam	439	553	643	731	800
	AKT	..	..	672	743	888
	KFP	..	..	664	725	832
	OSCE	..	..	651	754	836
	ACRRM Fellowship Exam	..	..	..	..	..
	MSF	54	55	54	84	37
	MiniCEX	34	57	77	97	96
	MCQ	44	74	70	71	99
	StAMPS	47	35	63	64	76
Intensive care medicine	Second Part General exam	62	61	51	41	41
	Second Part Paediatric exam	7	5	11	2	6
Medical administration	Oral Examination	25	8	16	12	29
Obstetrics and gynaecology	Written	95	61	129	118	81
	Oral	77	77	78	117	81
Occupational and environmental	Written	3	5	10	10	12
medicine	Practical	5	5	8	14	8
Ophthalmology	RANZCO Advanced Clinical Exam	17	30	^(d)23	^(e)19	^(g)31
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	OMS Final Examination	7	4	8	11	11
Pathology