Demonstration of consistent standards in medical education is an important response to the increasing mobility of the workforce and the propagation of new medical schools around the world.1,2 Five Australian medical schools (at the universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland and Western Australia) collaborated to perform a comparison across the subdisciplines included on the 2014 International Foundations of Medicine Clinical Science Examination (IFOM CSE).3
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