The Board of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (“RACP”) has agreed to reimburse the full exam fee of almost $2,000, which is estimated to cost the RACP more than $2 million, after 1,200 trainee doctors were affected by a computer glitch that occurred five hours into the Basic Training Written Divisional Exam.
Trainees will now resit a paper-based exam or an alternative computer based exam on 23 March 2018. Neither of these exams will be counted as an ‘attempt’ if the trainee does not pass the exam. The RACP will not charge trainees for resitting these rescheduled or alternative exams.
Read RACP’s statement here.