How to Pass the RACP Written and Clinical Exams: The Insiders Guide

Written for registrars sitting the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Examinations, this invaluable book guides the candidate through the whole process, from getting started in the Written Exam, right through to preparing for short and long cases and how to present them in the Clinical Exam.

Based on the authors own experiences, tips gathered from previous candidates, together with crucial advice from many RACP examiners, this guide has been fully updated throughout.  It covers both the Written and Clinical Exams, as well as advice on dealing with stress, life after the Exams, career planning and preparing for career interviews.  This new edition also includes both Adult and Paediatric medicine, with Paeds Points for child–health specific information.

Containing a wealth of information, pearls of wisdom, real–life examples and friendly, practical advice, How to Pass the RACP Written and Clinical Exams makes the path through these gruelling exams far easier. 

About the authors

Acknowledgments

General Disclaimer

Section 1: The written exam

1 Introduction to the written exam

2 Preparation

3 How to start studying for the Written Exam

4 Topics that need to be covered for the Written Exam

5 Study Group

6 Now We Know How To Study, What Stuff Do We Study From?

7 Old FRACP Exam Questions

8 Two Week Revision Courses

9 Putting It All Together The Final Three Months

10 After The Exam

Section 2: The clinical exam

11 Introduction to the RACP Clinical Exam

12 The Clinical Exam marking schedule

13 Two weeks of Ground Work

14 How To Start Doing your first practice cases

15 An Introduction to the Long Case

16 Mastering and Presenting your Long Case

17 Special Points For Paediatric Cases

18 Secret long case species

19 Top Long Case Tips from candidates and examiners

20 Suggested approach to a Mâori Patient in the Long Case

21 Practice Long Cases

22 Past exam Long Cases

23 An introduction to the Short Case

24 How to Put on a Show

25 Short Case advice from registrars

26 Past exam Short Cases

27 Putting it all together for the Clinical Exam

28 The lead up to the exam

29 The post–exam world

30 How to Fail – the outsiders guide to the FRACP Exam

31 Paying it forward How to provide feedback for practice cases

32 Studying for the exam with a family on board

33 Organising the Clinical Exam

34 Career Planning

35 Preparing for your medical interview

36 Ok, we′ll stop talking now!

Index

Zoë Raos is a Gastroenterologist and General Physician at the North Shore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. She will be an RACP Examiner in 2016.

Cheryl Johnson is a Geriatrician at the North Shore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand.  She is a current RACP Examiner.