Clinical exam preparation

Practise the AMC Clinical Examination with simulated patients

Run timed clinical stations, speak with an AI patient who answers in character, and get structured feedback on every consultation you give. Built for the AMC Clinical Examination.

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3 min
taster, no account
8 min
full consultation
Spoken
patient and examiner
Scorecard
and full transcript

ClinicalVitals is an independent exam-preparation platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Australian Medical Council. Full disclaimer

A station in progress: a surgical assessment stem with a 6:48 countdown, the voice patient on camera, and the examiner panel offering examination findings and investigations.
A station in progress, beside an example of the scorecard it produces.

Example scorecard

3/7Just below the standard
  • Approach to the Patient5/7
  • History Taking4/7
  • Management Plan2/7

How it works

Simple. Realistic. Effective.

Hands-on practice in three steps, on the clock the exam runs on.

  1. Read the stem

    You have 2 minutes with the candidate instructions, as in the exam.

  2. Speak with the patient

    An 8-minute spoken consultation with an AI patient who answers in character and can interrupt. Ask the examiner for findings and investigations and they answer aloud.

  3. Get your feedback

    A score and comment on every category, the misses that mattered, any safety concerns, and a spoken walkthrough of the station performed to a high standard.

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Acute Chest Pain — Emergency Department

MedicineIntermediateFree, no account

John Smith, 52, male. Anxious, dropping into short breathy sentences when the pain bites, reluctant to take time off work.

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  • 8 minutes with the patient

    The full station, not a preview.

  • Scorecard and transcript

    Every category scored, with notes against the lines you said.

  • Spoken walkthrough

    The same station performed to a high standard, unlocked once you have sat it.

Your feedback

See exactly what you did well and where to improve

A scorecard with every category scored and commented on, the misses that mattered and why, and a transcript you can read back.

Overall

3/7

Just below the standard

Not a passA station passes at 4 of 7

  • Approach to the Patient5/7
  • History Taking4/7
  • Management Plan2/7

Key feedback

Strengths

  • Good rapport, and the patient was asked what they already knew.
  • Structured approach to the history.

Key misses

  • Did not ask whether the pain tore through to the back.
  • No safety-netting before the patient was sent home.

Safety concern

Failed to screen for aortic dissection before reaching for anticoagulation.

Transcript

  1. Patient

    I have been having chest pain for the last few hours.

  2. You

    Can you tell me more about the pain?

  3. Patient

    It is a tightness, mostly in the centre of my chest.

Spoken walkthrough

The same station performed to a high standard, with the same patient and examiner. It unlocks under your result, so it never gives away a station you have yet to sit.

An example, not a real candidate’s result. See the full example scorecard

Why ClinicalVitals

Everything you need to practise properly

Patients that talk back

Natural spoken conversation with an AI patient who stays in character, answers what you actually asked, and can cut across you the way a real one does.

Real exam timing

2 minutes reading, then 8 minutes consulting, with a chime at one minute left. The clock runs against a real deadline and cannot be paused.

Feedback you can act on

Not just a number. Every category is scored and commented on, and each miss comes with why it mattered and the words you could have used.

Practise at any hour

Sit a station again whenever you want and watch the same categories move. No study partner to schedule, and no waiting for a tutor.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No subscriptions.

Every pass is a single payment for a fixed period. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel.

Free station

$0

No credit card

One full station, with feedback and transcript

14-Day Sprint Pass

$70 AUD

14 days, one payment

Up to 20 stations per rolling 24 hours

Exam Pass

$200 AUD

3 months, one payment

Up to 20 stations per rolling 24 hours

See full pricing

Human review $49 AUD per station, optional.

If the service is not what you expected, ask within 20 days of purchase and we will refund the pass. Use the contact button in the corner of any page. Full pricing details.

Example station

What comes back when the time is up

An invented result for Acute Chest Pain, Emergency Department, in the shape a real one takes.

  • Did not ask whether the pain tore through to the back.

    Tearing pain through to the back is the question that separates a dissection from a heart attack.

    “Does the pain go through to your back at all, and did it come on all at once?”

  • No safety-netting before the patient was sent home.

    The patient leaves without knowing what would make this an emergency.

    “If the pain comes back or you feel breathless, call an ambulance straight away.”

Safety concern. Failed to screen for aortic dissection before reaching for anticoagulation.

Every station page shows the specialty, the difficulty, the candidate stem and the categories that station is marked on before you start. Feedback refers to eTG, the RACGP Red Book and Australian consent standards.

The mock circuit

The 14-station circuit

The whole exam, end to end: 16 stations back to back over three hours thirty-six, of which 14 are scored, with no marks until it is over. It shows you how your consultations hold up at station sixteen compared with station one.

Plus two unscored stations you will not be able to pick out, and four ten-minute rest stations.

A pass is 9 of the 14 scored stations.

No marks until it is over, and rest stations cannot be skipped. Circuits need a pass and use sixteen stations of your 24-hour limit.

Human review

Want a person to mark it?

$49 AUD per station, requested from your scorecard, usually returned within 5 days. A ClinicalVitals reviewer reads the whole transcript and marks it again on the same rubric.

  1. 1.Complete the station and read your AI feedback.
  2. 2.Request a review from your scorecard.
  3. 3.A ClinicalVitals reviewer reads the full consultation transcript and marks it against the same rubric.
  4. 4.Written feedback is returned to your account, and the bell in the header tells you when it is ready.

Human review is educational feedback and is not official AMC marking. The reviewer is not an examiner of record for any examining body.

The feedback

How your feedback is generated

  1. 1

    Complete the consultation

    You speak with the simulated patient for the length of the station.

  2. 2

    Your consultation is transcribed

    Speech-recognition software converts the conversation into a written transcript, which you can read afterwards.

  3. 3

    ClinicalVitals analyses the consultation

    A language model evaluates the transcript against the ClinicalVitals feedback rubric for that station, with reference to current clinical guidelines.

  4. 4

    You receive structured feedback

    A score and comment per category, strengths, misses, any safety concerns, and notes against specific lines of the transcript.

AI-generated feedback can occasionally be incorrect or incomplete. ClinicalVitals is a practice tool, not an official AMC examiner. If a mark looks wrong, the problem button on the scorecard tells us.

The patient can interrupt

Full-duplex audio: you can cut in and redirect as you would in the room, and the patient can do the same. Each station keeps the same patient voice every time you sit it.

The timing is fixed

2 minutes reading, then 8 minutes consulting, with a chime at one minute left. The countdown runs against a real deadline and cannot be paused.

An examiner responds to requests

Ask for examination findings or investigations and the examiner answers aloud. In the closing minutes a bell rings and their questions appear on screen for you to answer.

Your accent is not an assessment criterion

ClinicalVitals assesses the content and structure of your consultation, not whether you sound like a native English speaker. Speech recognition can occasionally produce transcription errors, so transcript-based feedback should be read with that limitation in mind.

The 13 ClinicalVitals feedback categories

These are ClinicalVitals practice and feedback categories, designed around skills relevant to the AMC Clinical Examination. Each scored category is rated 1 to 7, and a station's author chooses which apply. They are not an official the AMC scoring system.

  1. 1.Approach to the Patient
  2. 2.History Taking
  3. 3.Choice and Technique of Examinationnot scored in a spoken station
  4. 4.Accuracy of Examinationnot scored in a spoken station
  5. 5.Familiarity with Test Equipmentnot scored in a spoken station
  6. 6.Performance of Procedurenot scored in a spoken station
  7. 7.Explanation of Procedure
  8. 8.Commentary to Examiner
  9. 9.Choice of Investigations
  10. 10.Interpretation of Investigation
  11. 11.Diagnosis / Differential Diagnoses
  12. 12.Management Plan
  13. 13.Patient Counselling and Education

4 of the 13 concern hands-on examination or procedures, which a spoken consultation cannot demonstrate, so no station here scores them. Describing what you would examine is assessed under Commentary to Examiner.

Who built this

Built by an IMG who sat the exam

ClinicalVitals is a small independent product. It was built by an international medical graduate who prepared for and sat the AMC Clinical Examination, and who wanted a way to practise consultations out loud, against the clock, without needing a study partner available at the same hour.

The stations are drafted, edited and approved by the founder. How that is done, and what is and is not checked, is set out in the full disclaimer.

Questions

Before you start

Is this affiliated with the AMC?
No. ClinicalVitals is independent educational software. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Australian Medical Council, the General Medical Council, or any other examining body. We name the exam only to say which one this helps you practise for. Read the full disclaimer.
Is the free station really free?
Yes — one full station, no credit card. It is the station we mark free in the catalogue, and it is a full one: same timing, same scorecard and transcript as a paid station. A pass is what opens the rest. You can also try a 3-minute taster without an account; you sign up only when you want a station marked.
Is the feedback an official score?
No. ClinicalVitals feedback is designed for exam preparation. It is not an official AMC score and cannot predict your examination result. The categories are our own, built around the skills the exam assesses.
What does it cost, and does it renew?
$200 AUD for 3 months, or $70 AUD for 14 days. Each is a single payment. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. If you buy a second pass while one is live, it starts when the first one ends. See pricing.
Can I sit the same station again?
Yes, as often as you like while your pass is live — a repeat is an ordinary sitting and counts against the usage limit like any other. Each one is marked on its own, so you can sit a station, read the feedback, and sit it again to see whether the changes landed.
What is the usage limit?
Every station in the catalogue, as often as you like, for as long as your pass runs — and up to 20 stations per rolling 24 hours, one at a time. The limit exists so a single login cannot be shared or scripted; it is well above what a candidate sits in a day.
Can a person review my station?
Yes, as an optional add-on: $49 AUD for one station, requested from your scorecard after you have sat it. A ClinicalVitals reviewer reads your transcript and returns written feedback, usually within 5 days. It is a one-off charge for that station and is separate from any pass. It is educational feedback, not official marking.
What is the refund policy?
If the service is not what you expected, ask within 20 days of purchase and we will refund the pass. Use the contact button in the corner of any page.
What if my connection drops mid-station?
A station you have started stays resumable for 15 minutes, so a reload or a browser crash does not cost you the sitting. After that it frees up automatically and does not count against your usage limit.

In short

What ClinicalVitals is, and isn't

ClinicalVitals is

  • An AMC Clinical Examination preparation tool
  • A simulated patient practice environment
  • A structured feedback system
  • An AI-assisted practice tool
  • An optional human-review service

ClinicalVitals isn't

  • The Australian Medical Council
  • An official AMC examination
  • An official AMC scoring system
  • A guarantee of passing
  • A substitute for official AMC information
  • A substitute for professional clinical education

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Expert tips, guides and resources

Practical advice and real-world insight from someone who has sat the exam.

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