Essential External Resources for GP Exams

Boost your GP exam preparation with top-rated resources for the RACGP AKT, KFP, CCE, and ACRRM MiniCEX and StAMPs exams. Each resource has some structured commentary.

There is a comprehensive list of Australian GP Fellowship Exam Websites that offer courses at the end.

Zero to finals

Target Audience: Final year UK medical students and junior doctors
Link(s): https://zerotofinals.com/
Format: Webpages with audio/video narration, YouTube, Podcast, Audio Book, Written Books
Time Budget: 68 hours (Audible), but it is still easy listening @ 1.5 speed (45 hours) due to the relaxed pace of Dr. Tom’s narration.
Price: Full content is available free; audiobooks and printed books are paid but not particularly expensive
Utility: Wide coverage of everything in Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics and Obstetrics with very little waffle.
Downsides: UK guidelines and units, no psychiatry, no dermatology. The free audio wastes 1 minute per topic with the intro and outro. There is limited coverage of non-pharmacological management (a RACGP exam favourite).
Comments: A great starting point to remind you about topics you may not have thought about since medical school and deliver width

Make a Medic

Target Audience: Final year UK medical students and junior doctors
Link(s): https://make-a-medic.thinkific.com/
Format: Webpages, some, but not all, with lecture slide style audio/video.
Time Budget: <20 hours per complete run-through
Price: Free trial, then £2.99/month ($6/month)
Utility: Wide coverage and superb brevity. It has, for example, sections on dermatology, emergencies, and psychiatry that are not covered by zerotofinals. It has a question bank with commented answers that might be useful to identify knowledge gaps. Like zerotofinals does not delve deeply into non-pharmacological management (a RACGP exam favourite)
Downsides: UK guidelines and units. Question bank answers use UK guidelines, which do not entirely align with Australian guidelines.
Comments: This is another excellent starting point to remind you about topics you may not have considered since medical school. The content is currently expanding, having moved to a new platform.

Geeky Medics

Target Audience: Final year UK medical students and junior doctors
Link(s): https://geekymedics.com/ and on YouTube.
Format: Webpages, images, videos > 1000 pages.
Time Budget: > 200 hours @ 10 minutes per page
Price: Free with extra features, £35-65 per year.
Utility: Wide coverage of pretty much everything.
Downsides: UK focussed and huge.
Comments: Good all around but particularly good for clinical examination videos.

OSCE Stop

Target Audience: Final year UK medical students and junior doctors
Link(s): https://oscestop.education/osce-learning/
Format: Webpages, currently 774 in total
Time Budget: 130 hours for a complete run-through @ 10 minutes per page
Price: A lot of free material, free trial, then £60 per year for full access
Utility: Wide coverage but only three pages on dermatology. Includes a large question bank (2500 questions)
Downsides: UK guidelines and units. Question bank answers use UK guidelines, which do not entirely align with Australian guidelines.
Comments: This is another excellent starting point for reminding yourself about topics you may not have considered since medical school.

eTG – Therapeutic Guidelines

Target Audience: Australian Doctors.
Link(s): https://tgldcdp.tg.org.au/etgcomplete
Format: Webpages.
Time Budget: It is enormous. It is a definitive resource for day-to-day practice that encompasses the current guidelines.
Price: There is no free trial, but you probably have access via work ($399/year for a personal subscription).
Utility: Coverage is both broad and deep and includes non-pharmacological management.
Downsides: Sheer size and well above what is needed for GP exams. It is easy to go down rabbit holes reading about stuff not immediately relevant to the exam passing task.
Comments: You would be highly unlikely to get through it all, even with several years of study.

GP Notebook

Target Audience: General Practitioners.
Link(s): https://gpnotebook.com/
Format: Webpages (Brief), >40,000 pages
Time Budget: Almost infinite.
Price: 5 free pages per day without free login, remainder free with login.
Utility: Coverage is wide and deep and continuously updated. One of the better features is intermittent email updates, often covering items of current interest.
Downsides: Sheer size and well above what is needed for GP exams.
Comments: You would be highly unlikely to get through it all, even with several years of study.

The Good GP

Target Audience: Australian Doctors
Link(s): https://www.racgp.org.au/racgp-digital-events-calendar/online-event-items/podcast/the-good-gp
Format: Podcast.
Time Budget: 123 x 10-20 minute episodes, of which not all are relevant ~ 30 hours
Price: Free
Utility: Pleasant listening helps align you with the RACGP version of a Good GP.
Downsides: Not all episodes are relevant to exams, and drugs and doses are deliberately avoided.
Comments: I found it helpful to pick up the popular buzzwords and expected attitudes, but then again, my wife says I’m just like Doc Martin, so YMMV.

AusDoc – How To Treat

Target Audience: Australian Doctors
Link(s): https://www.ausdoc.com.au/how-to-treat/
Format: Notes and ten questions
Time Budget: 135 x 1 hour
Price: Free
Utility: Focussed coverage of the topic, shorter than Check. 1 hour of CPD points if you do the questions
Downsides: Many topics have a relatively low probability of appearing in exams.
Comments: This is a pretty good way to cover a knowledge gap in a particular topic.

Check

Target Audience: Australian Doctors
Link(s): https://www.racgp.org.au/check/
Format: 5 cases to highlight a particular subject
Time Budget: 613 units x 5 hours per unit = 3000+ hours
Price: Free for RACGP members
Utility: 5 hours of CPD points if you do the questions
Downsides: Many topics have a relatively low probability of appearing in exams.
Comments: A pretty good (but slow) way to cover a knowledge gap in a particular topic.

Australian GP Fellowship Exam Websites

You might choose to use several other websites to assist your study with material priced from $0 to $12,000. Here is a quick top 10:

Each of these sites has its positives and negatives. If one seems like a good fit for your learning style, go for it. We did promise to accelerate your journey, and if using a different resource works for you…