GP (Diploma) oral EXAMINATION

DRANZCOG Oral Examination

Eligibility for the Oral Examination

Candidates must first be successful at the written examination before attempting the oral examination.

The DRANZCOG Examinations are only available to those who have satisfactorily completed the DRANZCOG training program.

DRANZCOG trainees should consult the DRANZCOG Handbook ( 534KB) (which contains the DRANZCOG Regulations and Syllabus) to ensure that they are eligible for the examination.

Format (in brief)

The DRANZCOG Oral Examination is an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Candidates are required to complete 15 cases - each of seven minutes duration, plus two minutes reading time More ( 104KB)

Critical Skills Stations

Four of the seven topics listed below will be examined in stations at the DRANZCOG Oral Examination. These stations are known as ‘Critical Skills Stations’. In addition to obtaining an overall result that equals or exceeds the pass mark for the examination, candidates will have to pass three of the four stations relating to the four topics taken from the list below in order to achieve a pass in the examination.

The topics are as follows:

• Management of antepartum haemorrhage
• Instrumental deliveries
• Management of eclamptic patient
• Resuscitation of neonate
• Management of postpartum haemorrhage
• Management of preeclampsia
• Management of shoulder dystocia

Some typical examples of how the station in question will run in the DRANZCOG Oral Examination have been compiled More ( 81KB)

These are presented for your guidance; however, there may be some differences between what is outlined below and the specific nature of a particular critical skills station in any DRANZCOG Oral Examination.

Venue

The DRANZCOG Oral Examination is held in Melbourne (Victoria, Austalia) only.

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