Medical body admits it didn't have full backup plan for crashed doctor test

Australasian College of Physicians apologises to 1,200 students in Australia and New Zealand after online test fail

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has conceded it did not have a complete backup plan for a crucial trainee doctor exam that crashed while being held online for the first time.

Hundreds of trainee doctors will have to resit the exam, even if they managed to complete it before a “technical glitch” kicked participants out of the online test on Monday.

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Continue reading... February 20, 2018 at 10:30PM