Assessment

Fellowship Royal Australian College of General Practitioners – FRACGP

The FRACGP is the end point of General Practice Training and is attained through a formal examination process conducted by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Registrars are eligible to enroll in the College Examination following completion of their 6-8 training units.
To be eligible to enroll in the College examination all candidates must provide evidence of satisfactory completion of basic CPR in the 12 months prior to the close of enrollment.

Registrars should refer to the College website for up to date information on Examinations, http://www.racgp.org.au/assessment/examination, below is brief outline on the RACGP examination requirements.

The College Examination

The College Examination consists of three segments which can be undertaken either in one examination period or separately. The examination segments are:

• AKT – Applied Knowledge Test – an extended multiple choice exam
• KFP – Key Feature Problems – a mixture of extended multiple choice and short answer questions.
• OSCE – Objective Structured Clinical Examination – a combination of 14 short and long clinical cases

See Assessment Methods at www.racgp.org.au/assessment/policy for more information about the College Examination.

Fellowship of Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine – FACRRM

Fellowship of ACRRM (FACRRM) is one of two vocational endpoint qualifications for registrars in the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT) program registrars training in AGPT will be able to choose to do FACRRM or the FRACGP or both as vocational endpoints. The ACRRM qualification aims to produce doctors capable of working with a high degree of professional independence across the primary and secondary health care continuum, with a broad range of procedural and cognitive skills and a particular focus on rural and remote medicine. Under AGPT, this vocational training toward the FACRRM will be in the specialty of general practice.

Registrars should refer to the Colleges website for up to date information on Assessments https://www.acrrm.org.au/assessment, below is brief outline on the ACRRM assessment requirements.

The ACRRM assessment process has been designed to provide registrars with a valid and reliable assessment of their knowledge, skills and attitudes that comprehensively reflects the educational outcomes of the training program, and is relevant to the rural and remote context.

The two key core principles are that the content of examinations is developed by clinically active rural and remote medical practitioners and that registrars are able to participate in the examinations within the locality where they live and work, to prevent depopulating rural and remote Australia of their medical workforce (registrars and examiners) during examination periods.

All registrars training towards FACRRM must complete the following Primary Rural and Remote Training summative assessments:
1. Multiple Choice Question exam (MCQ): pass grade
2. Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (miniCEX): pass grade
3. Structured Assessment using Multiple Patient Scenarios (StAMPS): pass grade
4. Multi-Source Feedback (MSF): satisfactory completion
5. Procedural Skills Logbook: satisfactory completion

Registrars are also required to obtain a Pass grade in each of the assessments for their chosen Advanced Specialised Training Discipline.

Assessment Handbook

A detailed description of all aspects of the assessment process is provided in the Handbook for Fellowship Assessment available on the ACRRM assessment web page https://www.acrrm.org.au/assessment