FSP CASPer preparation for doctors applying through RACGP.

Why FSP applicants should take it seriously

The RACGP Fellowship Support Program now includes the National Entry Assessment for relevant intakes. RACGP describes the assessment as an online situational judgement test delivered by Acuity Insights. Applicants commonly know it as CASPer.

For FSP candidates, the issue is rarely lack of experience. The issue is that experience can make answers too fast, too clinical or too assumed. CASPer needs the reasoning to be visible.

The FSP advantage

FSP applicants often have more workplace exposure than earlier-career applicants. That can be a real advantage if you use it well. You may have seen difficult communication, power dynamics, resource pressure, cultural difference, fatigue and professional conflict up close.

The skill is not listing those experiences. The skill is showing what they taught you about people.

How to approach FSP CASPer

• Treat the assessment as a human judgement test, not an exam of medical knowledge.
• Practise with generic scenarios: friendship tension, workplace fairness, group conflict, responsibility, mistakes and communication.
• Show what you would clarify before judging someone.
• Name the competing duties without turning the answer into an ethics checklist.
• Write as a person who has learned from medicine, not as a person hiding behind it.