In-Person 26 - Written Exam Prep Course 2026

This is our two-week written exam prep course for 2027 exam candidates. It is for trainees wishing to attend in-person at the University of Melbourne. It will be held from 23rd November - 4th December, 2026. 

This course is built-on 20+ years of experience and feedback running these courses. Feedback from last year's course was very positive. 

The course includes the following:

Teaching Sessions – Comprehensive lectures by experienced speakers covering important topics with a focus on evidence-based medicine, current hot topics, and revision of generally poorly understood areas. There will be a Q&A opportunity at the end of lectures. The lectures are revised each year to reflect important, possibly examinable topics. Teaching sessions are between 9:00am and 5:00pm Monday-Friday over each week of the course period, except for the final Friday (4th Dec) when teaching sessions will end by 12:30pm. The final afternoon is reserved for the trial exam (see below). There are no course sessions over the middle weekend.

Comprehensive Course Notes – Downloadable notes in PDF format will be made available to all participants approximately 10 days before the course start-date. 

Please note that we no longer provide the option of printed course notes. The vast majority of attendees use electronic notes and the demand for printed notes is extremely low. The PDFs you will be provided with are formatted to easily enable you to have them printed, if you wish. Last year's attendees found this to be a lower cost option than we were, otherwise, able to provide.

Trial Exam - This is online and available for you to try from 4th - 8th December. You may sit the exam on the final afternoon of the course (4th Dec) or, if you wish to travel home, you may take it at any time until 11:59pm on 8th Dec.  As soon as possible after the exam closes, an exam analysis will be emailed to you, showing the spread of all scores and the pass mark. You will also be able to compare your result with all those trainees taking the course both in-person and online

Course Practice MCQs – a set of online practice MCQs, to enhance learning during the course.

MCQ Bank - This is a new feature for 2026. It consists of an online question bank of 700+ MCQs, complete with answers and explanations. This will be made available for access on 1st September until the February 2027 exam.

Access to the online course after the in-person course concludes - Access will be available until the February 2027 exam, so you will be able to view any of the lectures again and view additional lectures on other topics. Please see the description of the Online Course for details of this course.

Light Refreshments - during morning and afternoon breaks. For lunch, there is a variety of cafes close to the course venue to suit differing tastes.

Venue 

Please see the 'Venue Information' section for venue details at the University of Melbourne.

Registration Information

The fee for the course is $3,250. You may reserve a place by paying a deposit of $1,625. The balance of the fee of $1,625 is due by 3rd August. A reminder will be sent in July. After this date, registrations can be made by paying the full fee, if places are still available. 

You are advised to register for this course as early as possible, to ensure a place.

There is a cancellation fee of $70 to withdraw from the course prior to 2nd August. After this date refunds cannot be made.

All registrations must be made online using any of the major credit and debit cards. Payments are secure and processed by Stripe. Please click on the 'Register' button to start your registration. You will register as a user of our website first and, once this has been done, you can register and pay for the course.  Once you have registered and paid, you will receive a receipt automatically.  We will confirm all registrations in a further email, within 2 business days.  It is useful to have our main email address (as per your receipt) in your address book or white list to ensure you receive our emails.

If you have any further questions or require any further information, please contact us via the contact form on our website. One of our team will get back to you as soon as possible.