Practise pain formulation, neurological triage, safe analgesia and shared decisions across the FPM curriculum, with 60 focused concepts and 20 original MCQ drills. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
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Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FPM ANZCA) · Current outline verified for 2026: Pain Medicine Training Program Curriculum, last updated December 2025, with version 1.8 recorded in its change register; FPM Training Handbook v1.13, December 2025. No separate day-specific effective date was stated. The workbook label FFPMANZCA names the fellowship qualification and is mapped here to the official FPM Fellowship Examination within that training pathway. The assigned slug is preserved. In 2026 the fellowship examination is oral; the separate Foundations MCQ Examination replaced its former written component.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- ANZCA — FPM fellowship exam
- FPM Pain Medicine Training Program Curriculum — December 2025
- FPM Training Handbook v1.13 — December 2025
- ANZCA — Pain Medicine Training Program
- ANZCA — Foundations MCQ exam
- IASP — Terminology
- IASP — Allodynia and Hyperalgesia in Neuropathic Pain
- IASP — Central Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain, 2 September 2026
- IASP — Identifying Neuropathic Pain in the Clinic
- Cochrane Handbook — Chapter 15: Interpreting results and drawing conclusions
- FPM PS11(PM) — Procedures in Pain Medicine Clinical Care Standard, 2020
- FPM PS01(PM) — Opioid analgesics in chronic non-cancer pain, 2025
- FPM PS15(PM) — Persistent pelvic pain including endometriosis-associated pain, 2025
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care — Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard, 2022
- Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard, 2022
- CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022
- Cancer Institute NSW eviQ Education — Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression, version 2, reviewed December 2024
- NCI — Cancer Pain (PDQ), health professional version, updated 24 April 2025
- Royal College of Physicians — Complex regional pain syndrome in adults, second edition, 2018
- EULAR — Management recommendations
- EULAR — Fibromyalgia recommendations summary
- Medical Council of New Zealand — Statement on cultural safety, October 2019
- Medical Council of New Zealand — When another person is present during a consultation, June 2022
- Medical Council of New Zealand — Good Medical Practice
- International Headache Society — ICHD-3: Triptan-overuse headache
- International Headache Society — ICHD-3: Migraine without aura
- International Headache Society — The International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition, 2018
- Medical Council of New Zealand — Doctor patient relationship: when another person is present
- Cancer Institute NSW eviQ Education — Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)
- 1.1 Migraine without aura - ICHD-3
- 13.1 Pain attributed to a lesion or disease of the trigeminal nerve - ICHD-3
- ANZCA%20Bulletin%20-%202009%20-%20December%20-%20ads%20removed.pdf
- Recommendations | Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management | Guidance | NICE
- Recommendations | Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management | Guidance | NICE
- PS41-Guideline-on-acute-pain-management
- 296-Spinal cord compression palliative EBRT | eviQ
- When-another-person-is-present-during-a-consultation.pdf
- 2.2 Frequent episodic tension-type headache - ICHD-3
- IpcaPropranololtab.pdf
- sumagrantab.pdf
- PART_I-C.pdf
- PS03-Guideline-for-the-management-of-major-regional-analgesia
- local-anesthetic-systemic-toxicity-rgb.pdf
FPM Fellowship Examination
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A patient reports persistent pain after an injury has healed, and imaging shows no ongoing structural damage. Which statement best explains the relationship between pain and nociception?
FPM Fellowship Examination
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Conceptual basis of pain medicine
Pain and nociception
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