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Bridging Program for doctors preparing for the Australian Medical Council examinations

The RACGP AMC Bridging Program has been developed to meet the needs of doctors with overseas qualifications who are preparing to sit the Australian Medical Council's examinations. The Program is designed to rapidly improve candidates' professional knowledge in the areas necessary to pass the AMC examinations and for subsequent clinical practice.

The Bridging Program can assist doctors who trained overseas and who

• are seeking professional recognition in Australia ;
• are preparing for the AMC examinations;
• have experienced difficulties with past AMC examinations;
• are seeking guided learning to target performance gaps before sitting the AMC examinations.

The RACGP offers two AMC Bridging Courses:

1. Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) Bridging Course
   
   .............. coming soon
   
   *Please note that we are currently in the process of redeveloping the whole AMC MCQ Bridging Course. This includes re-writing and re-structuring necessary MCQ's to better reflect the AMC MCQ exam. We expect to have this finalised by early – to mid 2010. If you would like the RACGP to advise you when the date of the next course will commence once this review is completed, please advise us through:
   
   gpeducation@racgp.org.au
   
   and include your email address and a contact phone number.


2. Clinical Skills Bridging Course (each Friday for 8 weeks, or Tuesday in Perth, with the Trial Exam held on the following Saturday), for doctors who have passed the AMC MCQ examination and who are now preparing for the AMC Clinical exam, or who have experienced difficulties with this exam in the past.

Testimonials

“The AMC Bridging Course is one of a kind. It is one of the most extensive review classes I ever attended. It has been supported and backed up with current issues, trends and updates in the medical profession. It covers a vast and wide area of academic discipline to augment our basic knowledge and clinical decision making of different cases in the field of Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery, Pedaetrics, Obstetric & Gynecology and Community Health Medicine.”
- Argel B. Arrieta, AMC Bridging Course participant

“I just wanted to say thanks to your entire team of educators at RACGP. I just saw my results on the AMC website for the clinical exam and I passed! I am so happy! Each one of them had made it a point to teach us the technique required to pass the exam, which I found very useful. Coming from a different country it was difficult to understand what was expected from us and how we needed to deliver the information to patients and the course helped me understand this.”
- Ashisha Kallukaran, AMC Bridging Course participant

"Many thanks to the MCQ Bridging Program that gave me the edge and for allowing overseas trained doctors like me the opportunity to do so."
- Tapukura Rairi, AMC Bridging Course participant

For further information on our bridging courses click on the link below. To be mailed an application package, please contact: 1800 284 732 or email: gpeducation@racgp.org.au

Publication Date: 14 January 2010