Nearly 300 psychiatry registrars will be forced to resit their clinical fellowship exam after yet another major IT glitch affecting a medical college.

In a scenario that echoes the RACGP’s exam debacle last year, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) was forced to cancel its Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) on Saturday.

The college has blamed a “videoconferencing failure” during the morning session of the exam, which was conducted by an external provider remotely in candidates’ homes.

As a result, the 270 candidates — some of whom had reportedly waited 18 months to sit their exams — along with examiners and role players, were unable to join their virtual “rooms” for assessment.