ANZCA Fellowship
consultant-ready.
164 sourced study notes, 763 mapped learning objectives, AI SAQ grading on the Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier, a four-phase clinical viva simulator, 4,261 flashcards, and an unlimited Fellowship-level MCQ bank. Built for the Final Exam.
Four domains.
One integrated curriculum.
Feature 01 · SAQ Grader
Marking points. Every time. No guessing.
Write a Fellowship SAQ and get an examiner-style debrief: a Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier, every clinical point flagged as present or missing, an examiner comment, and a full model answer at consultant level with specific drug doses, monitoring choices and contingency plans. The grader rejects basic-science answers; the bank is unlimited.
- Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier with score estimate
- Every marking point checked against ANZCA Final curriculum learning objectives
- Distinction-pitched model answer: specific doses, monitoring, and contingency plans
- Examiner comment flags the single most important gap
- Unlimited AI-generated SAQs in Final Exam format, no repetition
Feature 02 · MCQ Practice
Fellowship-style MCQs. Full explanations. Community data.
Clinical application MCQs across all Fellowship subspecialties, mapped to the ANZCA Training Program curriculum. These are not basic-science questions. Every option has a full written explanation, and a community answer distribution shows how other candidates responded after each question.
- Fellowship-level MCQs across all 13 clinical sections
- Full explanation for every option, including the distractors
- Community answer distribution after each question
- Unlimited AI-generated, curriculum-mapped questions
- Timed practice mode replicating real exam conditions
Feature 03 · Viva Simulator
Ten clinical vivas. An AI examiner. Any time.
The real Fellowship viva consists of ten structured clinical vivas over three days (eight anaesthesia, two general medicine), each with two minutes of reading time followed by fifteen minutes of active examination. The Primex viva simulator runs the same timed format, moving through pre-operative assessment, intra-operative management, an intra-operative crisis, and post-operative handover in a single case. Voice mode transcribes spoken answers using medical speech recognition.
- Timed format matching the real exam: 2-minute reading, 15-minute active viva
- Four phases per case: pre-op, intra-op, crisis management, post-op handover
- Pushes for specific drugs, doses, monitoring choices, and plan B throughout
- Voice mode: speak your answer, medical speech recognition transcribes it
- Per-phase debrief: tier, strengths, gaps, and key learning point
Feature 04 · Flashcards
4,261 cards. Spaced repetition. All 13 clinical sections.
Curriculum-mapped flashcard decks with spaced repetition across every Fellowship section. Cards cover clinical management scenarios, drug selection and dosing, subspecialty physiology, crisis protocols, and technique steps. Cards you struggle with come back sooner; cards you know drop back automatically.
- 4,261 cards across 164 topics, all curriculum-mapped
- Clinical scenario cards, drug dosing cards, and crisis management protocols
- MCQ drill mode for rapid-fire Fellowship question practice
- One click from any card to the full study note on that topic
- Image cards: monitoring waveforms, TOE views, and regional anatomy
Feature 05 · Study Notes
164 topics. Sourced. Linked from every result.
Structured study notes for all 164 topics in the Fellowship curriculum. Written to a consistent seven-section format and aligned to the published ANZCA Fellowship curriculum, Australian guidelines and primary literature. They surface automatically alongside SAQ and viva debriefs so you move from feedback to the relevant note in one click.
- 164 study notes across 13 clinical sections
- Consistent 7-section structure: scannable, not a wall of text
- Aligned to the published ANZCA Fellowship curriculum and Australian guidelines
- Full-text search across all notes
- Linked from SAQ debrief, viva feedback, and flashcards
Feature 06 · ANZCA Curriculum Tracker
763 learning objectives. The full Fellowship curriculum tracked.
The ANZCA Training Program Curriculum (v1.14, December 2024) defines 763 Fellowship-assessed learning objectives across Advanced Training, Specialised Study Units, and Roles in Practice. Primex surfaces all 763 in a Curriculum tab with a checkbox checklist and per-section progress bars; the majority click through directly to the mapped study note, and Roles-in-Practice LOs are tracked alongside clinical knowledge.
- All 763 ANZCA Fellowship LOs across 13 sections, verbatim from the v1.14 curriculum document
- Most LOs click through directly to the mapped study note
- Roles-in-Practice LOs (Health Advocate, Leader/Manager, Medical Expert, Professionalism) tracked alongside clinical knowledge
- Checkbox completion persisted across sessions, with per-section progress bars
Feature N · Study Plan & Readiness
One readiness score. Always know where you stand.
An adaptive study plan that counts down to your ANZCA Fellowship exam date and tells you what to study next. A single readiness score blends coverage, accuracy, retention and consistency into one number out of 100, so you can see at a glance whether you are tracking ahead or behind pace.
- Days-to-exam countdown and pace tracking, ahead or behind
- Readiness score out of 100, blended from four signals
- Coverage, accuracy, retention and consistency broken out
- Streak counter and weekly attempt target
- Study this next: the topic queued for today, one tap to open
The Final Examination
The ANZCA Final (Fellowship) Examination is the culmination of advanced anaesthesia training. It tests consultant-level clinical reasoning across the full breadth of anaesthetic practice: general, regional, obstetric, paediatric, cardiac, thoracic, neuroanaesthesia, perioperative medicine, and pain. The written component (SAQ and MCQ, sat on the same day) must be passed before candidates sit the vivas. The ANZCA Training Programme Curriculum maps 763 Fellowship-assessed learning objectives across these domains. The overall pass rate across both stages is approximately 60% per sitting.
- OrganiserAustralian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
- FormatWritten day: 150 MCQs over 150 minutes and 15 SAQs over 150 minutes. Candidates who pass the written then sit ten clinical vivas over three days (eight anaesthesia vivas, two general medicine vivas), each with 2 minutes reading and 15 minutes active examination.
- Pass markAt least 40% on the SAQ and 50% overall on the written component. For the vivas, candidates must pass at least four of the eight anaesthesia vivas.
- SittingsTwice yearly. Written component typically in March and August. Vivas in June and November.
- Pass rateApproximately 60% per sitting overall (written and viva combined). Not officially published per sitting by ANZCA.
- Standard advanced clinical anaesthesia references
- Standard clinical anesthesiology references
- Standard co-existing disease references
- Standard anaesthetic pharmacology references
- Standard viva preparation books
- ANZCA Final Exam curriculum, past SAQ papers and examiner reports (anzca.edu.au)
- ANZCA Finals Notes (anzcafinalsnotes.com)
- ICN Anaesthetic Fellowship Exam Notes (intensivecarenetwork.com)
- BJA Education; free anaesthesia review articles (bjaed.org)
ANZCA Fellowship, in numbers.
- Curriculum learning objectives mapped
- 763
- Sourced study notes
- 164
- Spaced-repetition flashcards
- 4,261
- Clinical sections covered
- 13
- SAQ grading tier
- Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction
- Viva format
- 2-min reading + 15-min active, 4 phases
- Curriculum version
- v1.14 (December 2024)
- Trial
- 7 days, free
· How Primex compares ·
Primex differs from ANZCA Finals Notes and the Intensive Care Network (ICN) Anaesthetic Fellowship Exam Notes (both excellent open reference texts) by running timed exam-format practice (MCQ, SAQ, viva), grading written reasoning at consultant standard, and tracking coverage against the official ANZCA syllabus.
It differs from BJA Education, which publishes peer-reviewed review articles, by adding a four-phase clinical viva simulator with timer-driven transitions, an AI examiner persona calibrated to ANZCA Final examiner-report language, and voice mode with medical speech recognition.
It differs from generic flashcard apps by including AI-graded long-form SAQ feedback on the holistic Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier, a model answer at consultant standard surfaced with every result, and per-question community answer distributions.
The 763 ANZCA Fellowship learning objectives are taken verbatim from the ANZCA Training Program Curriculum (v1.14, December 2024). The Curriculum tab persists checkbox progress across sessions and shows per-section progress bars, so candidates can see exactly how much of the syllabus they have covered before exam day.
Every plan starts with
a 7-day free trial.
- ✓ One specialist exam (your choice)
- ✓ Study notes for every curriculum topic
- ✓ Flashcards with spaced repetition
- ✓ 10 MCQs per topic (sampler)
- ✓ Study plan with pace tracking
- ✗ MCQ drill mode
- ✗ SAQ question bank & sessions
- ✗ SAQ Grader & AI marking
- ✗ AI Viva simulation
- ✗ Community feed
- ✓ All 21 specialist exams: SAQ, MCQ, Viva & Voice
- ✓ Flashcards with spaced repetition & MCQ drill
- ✓ Study notes for every curriculum topic
- ✓ SAQ question bank & sessions
- ✓ Study plan with pace tracking
- ✓ Community feed
- ✓ All 21 specialist exams: SAQ, MCQ, Viva & Voice
- ✓ Flashcards with spaced repetition & MCQ drill
- ✓ Study notes for every curriculum topic
- ✓ SAQ question bank & sessions
- ✓ Study plan with pace tracking
- ✓ Save 20% vs monthly
- ✓ All 21 specialist exams: SAQ, MCQ, Viva & Voice
- ✓ Flashcards with spaced repetition & MCQ drill
- ✓ Study notes for every curriculum topic
- ✓ SAQ question bank & sessions
- ✓ Study plan with pace tracking
- ✓ Save 40% vs monthly plan
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