About the Australian Medical Council (AMC) Examination

The AMC Examinations consist of two major components:

1) Multiple choice question (MCQ) examination
2) Clinical examination

Multiple choice question (MCQ) examination

The Australian Medical Council (AMC) MCQ examination consists of two sessions, three and a half hour (2 x 3.5 hours) examinations administered in morning and afternoon sessions on the same day with a total of 300 questions (150 questions per session).

As part of the MCQ examination, all questions are multiple choice, with one correct answer to be selected from five. The AMC MCQ Examination includes questions about general practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and surgery.

The examination is designed as a comprehensive test of medical knowledge, clinical competency and performance. Both MCQ and clinical assessments are multidisciplinary and integrated.

The MCQ examination focuses on basic and applied medical knowledge across a wide range of topics and disciplines, involving understanding of the disease process, clinical examination, diagnosis, investigation, therapy and management, as well as your ability to exercise discrimination, judgment and reasoning in distinguishing between the correct diagnosis and plausible alternatives.

The majority of the multiple-choice questions reflect common clinical conditions in the Australian community. In order to achieve a satisfactory level of performance, a candidate will require a knowledge of many areas including the pathogenesis, clinical features, investigative finding, differential diagnosis and the management and treatment of medical conditions.

In terms of the breakdown of the exam, the following has been adopted from the AMC official website:

• Medicine (78 questions)

• Obstetrics and Gynecology (35 questions)

• Pediatrics (43 questions)

• Psychiatry (24 questions)

• Surgery (60 questions)

• TOTAL SCORED (240 questions)

• Non-scored questions (60 questions) 

Clinical Examination

The Australian Medical Council (AMC) Clinical Examination is an integrated multidisciplinary structured clinical assessment consisting of a 16 component multi-station assessment, including three obstetrics and gynecology stations and three pediatric stations.

You will rotate through a series of 20 stations, of which 16 will be marked, over a 3-4 hour period, and will undertake a variety of clinical tasks. Each station will be of 10 minutes duration (8 minutes for the actual assessment and 2 minutes for change over and reading of the written information for the next station).

Stations assess clinical skills in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, general practice and psychiatry. Scoring will be structured, with individual aspects of each station specified under the following broad headings:

• History

• Physical examination

• Investigations

• Diagnosis/differential diagnosis

• Therapeutics/management

• Counseling/patient education

• Clinical procedures

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