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The DWE rewards applied clinical reasoning across 170 questions, a third of them pharmacology, epidemiology and basic science. The DCE rewards a child-centred history and examination that ends in a prioritised problem list, the impact on the family and a safe plan.
Start free: 20 MCQs and 3 stations, no card required.
Each part of each exam, on its real format and clock, on the same engine trainees already use for the psychiatry fellowship.
170 items over two papers (Clinical Applications 100 · Medical Sciences 70) · 4 options · 5 h 20 + reading.
End of Basic Training: after 24 months FTE or the Consolidation phase (from Feb 2027, first-timers after the Foundation phase)
2 long cases (60 min with child and family, 10 min prep, 25 min discussion) + 4 short cases (2 min stem, 15 min examining and presenting).
After passing the DWE and 24 months FTE; once a year in May, with real children and families
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The commonest way to lose marks is a generic answer: good medicine, for a different patient or a different question. The marking rewards only what the rubric rewards.
Ethan is 4 years old with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, born at 28 weeks. Present your summary and the problem list you would discuss with the examiners. (5 marks)
Marking note: The examination findings were right, but the problem list stopped at the body. Examiners mark growth, development and the impact on the family as separate domains, and a list that leaves them out reads as below the expected standard even when every sign was found.
Candidates who fail are rarely told which sentence lost the mark. The commonest causes are not gaps in knowledge: a generic answer, a different question answered, an examination done out of order, the clock run out. Each is fixed by practice that is timed and marked.
Questions are spread across the 16 RACP areas, with the pharmacology and epidemiology of Paper 2 given the weight they carry on the day, and every option explained.
Cases run on the real timings: a 15-minute short case and a long case that ends in a prioritised problem list, marked against the domains examiners use.
Every case is marked for growth, development and the impact on the family and school, the domains candidates most often leave out.
Most candidates who fail know the medicine. They run out of time, answer a different question, or are not specific enough. Practice under the clock, marked the way examiners mark, is the fix.
10:00 reading, then 25:00 in the station, as on the day. Patients, relatives and examiners are played by an AI so you can practise alone, or a colleague runs the station with the script, the findings and the marking sheet.
170 items over two papers (Clinical Applications 100 · Medical Sciences 70) · 4 options · 5 h 20 + reading. Every option explained, including why the wrong ones are wrong, and your weakest areas come back first.
Apgar, paediatric GCS, PECARN, Westley croup score, acute asthma severity, Kawasaki and the Australian Jones criteria, dehydration, Tanner staging and HEADSS, each with the trap examiners set.
Developmental milestones and red flags, short stature, bronchiolitis, DKA, the febrile infant, murmurs, neonatal jaundice, child protection, eating disorders, status epilepticus, anaphylaxis and nephrotic syndrome.
Tell it when you sit and how many hours you have. It spreads the curriculum by blueprint weight, slots in mocks, written papers and station circuits, and moves your weakest areas forward as your results come in.
An exam pass lasts until the day after your exam, up to six months, and never renews.
The DWE bank across all 16 blueprint areas, with timed 100- and 70-question mocks for Paper 1 and Paper 2.
Choose Written exam (DWE)Long and short cases on the real timings, marked against the DCE domains, with model presentations.
Choose Clinical exam (DCE)DWE and DCE, plus the reference scales, topics and study plan.
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Start free: 20 MCQs and 3 stations, no card required.