Some 53 registrars will have to resit one of ACRRM’s fellowship exams after an IT glitch meant they couldn’t complete the online test.

The college’s three-hour Multiple Choice Questionnaire (MCQ) is one of three exams that must be passed for fellowship and costs $1545 to sit.

But the plug was pulled halfway through the test, held earlier this month at sites across the country, after the exam software stopped registering answers given by a number of candidates.

ACRRM president Dr Ewen McPhee says all the doctors have been contacted and offered an apology as well as the option of resitting a pen-and-paper version on two dates later this year.