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ANZCA Fellowship
consultant-ready.

701 sourced study notes and 10,515 spaced-repetition flashcards across the ANZCA Fellowship curriculum (763 LOs, 13 clinical sections). AI SAQ grading on the Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier, a four-phase clinical viva simulator, and an unlimited Fellowship-level MCQ library. Built for the Final Exam.

Pass rate
Not published
ANZCA releases individual results per sitting
Sittings per year
2
Written: March & Aug · Vivas: June & Nov
Format
Written then oral vivas
Written day, then ten clinical vivas over 3 days
Study notes
701
across 763 LOs · 13 clinical sections
Organising college
ANZCA
Not affiliated with PRIMEX
· 2026 dates ·

ANZCA Fellowship Exam Dates 2026

Published dates for the upcoming sittings. Always confirm against the official ANZCA exam calendar before scheduling, I refresh this section quarterly as new windows are announced.

  • Final Written 2026.117 Mar 2026
  • Final Viva 2026.1 (Melbourne)4–6 Jun 2026
  • Final Written 2026.211 Aug 2026
  • Final Viva 2026.2 (Brisbane)5–7 Nov 2026

Applications close ~2 months before written. Results ~1 week after viva.

· Exam domains ·

Topics tested in the ANZCA Fellowship exam

~30%
Core Clinical Anaesthesia
Airway management, general anaesthesia, regional techniques, and neuromuscular blockade. The foundation of independent consultant practice.
Difficult airway algorithms · RSI · Spinal and epidural · LAST · Ultrasound-guided blocks
~35%
Subspecialty Anaesthesia
Cardiac, thoracic, neuroanaesthesia, obstetric, and paediatric anaesthesia. Each brings distinct physiology, equipment, and crisis demands.
Cardiopulmonary bypass · One-lung ventilation · Obstetric failed intubation · Congenital heart disease · Craniotomy
~25%
Perioperative Medicine & ICU
Pre-operative assessment and optimisation across all major comorbidities, trauma, burns, crisis management, and ICU care for anaesthetists.
Cardiac risk stratification · Massive transfusion · Malignant hyperthermia · ARDS · End-of-life care
~10%
Pain Medicine
Acute, chronic, and cancer pain. Multimodal analgesia, opioid tolerance, interventional procedures, and transitional pain applied to high-risk surgical patients.
Multimodal analgesia · Neuropathic pain · Opioid dependence · ERAS protocols · Interventional pain
· What's inside ·

How candidates prepare for the ANZCA Fellowship

ANZCA Fellowship SAQ grader: a marked neuromuscular blockade answer with a score band, examiner feedback, and a strong, partial and missing rubric
Marking points. Every time. No guessing.

Write a Fellowship SAQ and get an examiner-style debrief in seconds. A Fail / Borderline / Pass / Distinction tier, every clinical point flagged hit or missed, an examiner comment, and a model answer at consultant level with specific drug doses, monitoring choices, and contingency plans. The grader rejects basic-science answers. The library 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
ANZCA Fellowship MCQ practice: a graded single best answer question with the correct option marked green and a full AI explanation
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
ANZCA Fellowship viva simulator: a timed clinical station setup with selectable examiner conversation styles and a voice mode toggle
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
ANZCA Fellowship flashcards: a revealed spaced repetition card with Again, Hard, Good and Easy grading and a linked study note
10,515 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.

  • 10,515 cards mapped to the ANZCA Fellowship curriculum
  • 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
ANZCA Fellowship study note: a cardiac tamponade in the trauma patient article with a structured, referenced layout
701 study notes. One per LO. Linked from every result.

701 sourced study notes across the Fellowship curriculum, one for every covered learning objective. Consistent seven-section format, referenced to the published ANZCA Fellowship curriculum, Australian guidelines, and primary literature. Notes surface automatically alongside SAQ and viva debriefs, so you move from feedback to the relevant note in one click.

  • 701 study notes across all 13 clinical sections, one per LO
  • 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
ANZCA Fellowship curriculum tracker: 763 learning objectives grouped by section with per section progress counts
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
One readiness score. Always know where you stand.

An adaptive study plan that counts down to your ANZCA Fellowship 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're 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
· About this exam ·

ANZCA Fellowship format and structure: written, MCQ, medical and anaesthesia vivas

The ANZCA 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 Program Curriculum maps 763 Fellowship-assessed learning objectives across these domains. ANZCA publishes no Final pass-rate percentage: it releases individual results per sitting rather than an aggregate rate. PRIMEX is built by Dr Jay Marshall, an anaesthetics registrar in Taree, NSW.

  • 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 rateANZCA publishes no Final pass-rate percentage; it releases individual results per sitting, not an aggregate rate
ANZCA Fellowship interview practice: a standardised consultant panel with question categories spanning governance, audit and leadership
A panel-realistic ANZCA consultant job interview, on demand.

Rehearse the standardised panel interview format Australian and New Zealand hospitals use for staff specialist and VMO consultant anaesthetist appointments. Six standardised questions cover clinical governance, audit and quality improvement, service planning, leadership and supervision, cultural safety, and credible motivation for the post. The panel stays silent until your answer is complete. The debrief returns a tier band, per-dimension rubric scores against ANZCA Roles in Practice (CanMEDS), framework beat checks (STAR-FR, ABCDE, SPIES, PEARLS, PDSA), and the moments your answer demonstrated each role.

  • Standardised panel format mirrored from NSW Health PD2023_024 and equivalent state recruitment policies
  • Six questions covering governance, audit, service planning, leadership, cultural safety, motivation
  • Calibrated rubric scoring per dimension with full band descriptions
  • ANZCA Roles in Practice (CanMEDS) demonstrated and missed per answer
  • Framework beat tracking for STAR-FR, SPIES, PEARLS, PDSA
  • Save your CV for grounded model answers tied to your real consultant trajectory
· PRIMEX by the numbers ·

ANZCA Fellowship pass rates and exam statistics

Curriculum learning objectives mapped
763
Sourced study notes
701 (one per LO covered)
Spaced-repetition flashcards
10,515
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

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 you know exactly how much of the syllabus is covered before exam day.

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· Questions ·

Common questions about the ANZCA Fellowship exam

· Pricing ·

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