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This hybrid course is designed for medical professionals and students preparing for pathology exams, offering interactive lectures, workshops, and mock exams. It covers high-yield topics from the BPS exam syllabus and provides a comprehensive refresher in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine.
Are you a doctor or medical student with interest in pathology? Or one who finds pathology difficult and wants to update and improve their knowledge? Are you preparing for a pathology exam in your specialty? This might be just the course for you!
The Basic Pathological Sciences (BPS) Exam of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia a standard-setting certificate for foundational pathology knowledge expected of medical graduates and junior medical doctors. As the science of pathology and its applications in laboratory and clinical medicine are evolving rapidly, taking a refresher course geared towards a certificate exam is beneficial to maintain currency of knowledge.
There are no set entry requirements for this course.
Saturday - 28/02/2026Sunday - 01/03/2026
Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea catered for those attending the face-to-face event. Please contact course coordinators for special dietary requirements.
VENUEWestern Edge Biosciences - Building 125University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052
The event will take place in a COVIDSafe way, in accord with government restrictions and guidelines. If you are unable to attend in person, you will have access to live streaming of the whole event over the 2 days, including access to the mock exams.
COURSE CONTENTKey topics from all chapters of the RCPA BPS exam syllabus and the RCPA recommended resources (including Robbins and Cotran Pathological Basis of Disease).
DELIVERY MODEOver two days of intense learning, you will receive face-to-face and online live lectures on key BPS concepts and high yield exam topics, engage in question review and practice exam techniques for the BPS and similar exams, practice mock exam sets under real exam conditions with feedback, and have opportunities to network with other exam candidates and also members of the RCPA.
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