AMC CAT MCQ syllabus

Computer-adaptive medical knowledge test for international medical graduates: 150 five-option questions in 3.5 hours. The live score is an equated 0–500 scale. This practice form is fixed and reports the number correct.

Adult health — Medicine

30 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

One best answer from five options. No mark is deducted for a wrong answer.

  • Diagnosis and management of common adult medical conditions, including aged care
  • Pathogenesis, clinical features, investigations and treatment

Adult health — Surgery

20 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

Blueprinted with medicine across adult health. Not a separately timed paper.

  • Acute surgical presentations, trauma and perioperative care
  • Common elective surgical conditions and their complications

Women's health — Obstetrics and gynaecology

12.5 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

The specifications print 12.5 percent, which is not a whole number of questions out of 150.

  • Pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period
  • Gynaecology, using the same principles as adult health

Child health

12.5 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

Includes recognition of developmental disability and important acute illness.

  • Growth, development and common conditions from the newborn period through adolescence
  • Medical, surgical and psychosocial care in emergency, ambulatory and inpatient settings

Mental health

12.5 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

History and mental-state findings are written into the stem.

  • Assessment, diagnosis and management of mental illness, behavioural disorders and addiction across ages
  • Psychological, physical and pharmacological treatment, including risk and benefit

Population health and ethics

12.5 percent of 150 questions · Part of the single 3.5-hour session

Population-health ideas may also sit inside a clinical stem from another patient group on the live examination. Items here are randomised across the blueprint, not sat as a block.

  • Screening, immunisation, surveillance, health promotion and epidemiology
  • Professional behaviour, consent, confidentiality and the duties of a doctor