Between about $2,000 and $7,000 a year in training fees, plus $2,000–$6,500 per exam sitting, plus registration and indemnity. RACP is $4,230 a year 1, ANZCA $3,930 with a $6,590 primary 2, RANZCR's OSCER alone is $6,519 3, and one GSSE attempt is A$4,850 4. Resits are full price.
Annual training fees, 2026. RACP $4,230 (adult and paeds) 1; ANZCA $3,930, due 31 January 2; RANZCOG $5,756 5; RANZCO $6,787 6; RANZCR $2,850 training fee plus a $2,960 membership subscription 3; ACEM $2,629, payable in full by 1 January whatever your FTE 7; CICM $2,350 after a $3,250 one-off registration fee 8.
Exams, per sitting. RACP written $2,329 and clinical $3,484 1. ANZCA primary $6,590, final $7,330 2. CICM First and Second Part $5,780 each 8. ACEM primary written $2,400 plus viva $2,660, fellowship written $3,145 plus OSCE $4,450 — about $12,650 if you pass everything first time 7. RANZCR Phase 1 $4,565, Phase 2 written $5,255, OSCER $6,519 3. RANZCOG written $2,810 and oral $5,371 5. And the GSSE at A$4,850 per attempt, before you are on a program at all 4.
Before you get on. RACS charges a $655 selection registration fee plus roughly $920 processing per specialty applied to 9; ANZCA charges $895 to apply and $2,905 to register as a trainee 2; RANZCOG $955 to apply 5. Radiology's full run — application, enrolment, annual fees, exams, admission to fellowship — comfortably exceeds $45,000 3.
What it actually adds up to. AusDoc's survey of 660 doctors found a median annual cost of $15,320 just to keep working — registration, indemnity, college and CPD memberships, CPD activities and union fees — with most between $10,000 and $25,000 10. For a junior doctor that is more than 10% of gross 11.
The bit people forget. Bursaries exist: ANZCA discounts the annual fee by up to 50% for eligible trainees, RACP halves it for research trainees 21. And component exams fail independently, so a single failed section means the whole fee, plus flights and accommodation, again 11.
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Not minimising your concerns and struggles, but this is what always gets me. If doctors struggle, who aren't poorly paid if we're being honest, how the hell does the median income earner (or less) cope?
In essence a JMO actual income is much lower than the number suggests as the expenses just to exist stack up
Should be said that these costs also apply to junior doctors who are earning $100-150k /year. So more than 10% of their total income is going to maintenance
my husband, like almost everyone in his cohort, failed 1/6 sections of a training exam, so is up for another exam fee plus fly across the country, hotel, etc etc etc for a 10 min thing.
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