Dr MCQ (question bank only)

Objective: To help GPs reflect on their current professional situation, identify strengths and weaknesses, and set meaningful career goals. 

Topics Covered: 

• Importance of self-assessment in career planning. 

• Tools for evaluating personal values, strengths, and passions. 

• Identifying areas of professional satisfaction and dissatisfaction. 

• Setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals. 

• Developing a personal career vision statement. 

• Interactive Elements: 

• Reflective exercises on career satisfaction and goals. 

Breakout groups for goal sharing and feedback. 

Objective: To introduce GPs to the diverse career options available within and outside clinical practice, and how to explore these opportunities. 

Topics Covered: 

• Career pathways in general practice (e.g., rural medicine, academia, leadership roles, special interests). 
• Exploring non-clinical roles (e.g., healthcare management, policy, medical education, consulting). 
• Pros and cons of pursuing advanced studies or specialisation. 
• Navigating part-time and flexible work opportunities. 

Interactive Elements: 

• Case studies from GPs who have transitioned to alternative career pathways. 

• Q&A with GPs working in non-traditional roles. 

Tailored dashboards containing analysis of your Dr MCQ timed mock exam attempts and your performance benchmarked against our research group cohort will indicate your likelihood of passing the real AKT/MCQ exam and help identify knowledge gaps.

Dr MCQ contains an Emergency and Rural Health question category specifically developed for ACRRM and rural registrars. The Quiz Builder function includes the option to only include questions that are consistent with those in the ACRRM MCQ Exam in the ACRRM format: single best answer with clinical stem and 4 answer options.

Dr MCQ questions typically contain 5 answer options which is consistent with the format of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) General Practice Education Programme (GPEP) Written Examination. The Quiz Builder function enables candidates to create quizzes containing 80 and 160 questions and set an average time limit of 1.5 minutes per question to match the timing of the real exam. Dr MCQ is mapped to the RACGP curriculum – some questions may not be entirely relevant to a NZ context.

The format of the Dr MCQ questions is equivalent to those in the AMC exam. There may be some areas outside the scope of general practice that do not feature heavily in Dr MCQ but may appear in the AMC exam, such as surgery or anaesthetics. However, Dr MCQ is still a great exam preparation resource to test knowledge across all areas of general practice, identify knowledge gaps, and assist with study through customisable quizzes, practice questions and mock exams.

Dr MCQ is mapped to the RACGP curriculum and covers a good range of topics to prepare for the Knowledge Test question component of the Candidate Assessment and Applied Knowledge Test (CAAKT). Dr MCQ is targeted at candidates preparing to sit fellowship exams and the level of difficulty for CAAKT candidates will be slightly higher. Therefore, candidates who do well in Dr MCQ will likely be comfortable sitting the Knowledge Test portion of the CAAKT. Dr MCQ does not contain Situational Judgement Test questions – candidates will need to prepare for this portion of the CAAKT separately.