Critical Literature Evaluations and Research (CLEAR)

Registrations for 2026 courses will open at 10:00am AEDT* on the following dates:

RACS Fellows, SETs, and SIMGs: Monday 10 November 2025

General release (all eligible applicants): Monday 24 November 2025

*Time zones for release:

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

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CLEAR for junior doctors and Trainees

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• ask answerable clinical questions
• find and critically appraise literature efficiently
• understand study methodologies
• extract numerical information from literature
• apply evidence to surgical practice
• develop sound foundations for conducting research
• incorporate current research into practice
• identify areas where good evidence is lacking and future research necessary.

The CLEAR Provider course caters to:

• Junior doctors aspiring to a career in surgery
• SET Trainees of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – training requirement for General Surgery and Urology. It is also required for Trainees in General Surgery Australia who are not on the GSET program
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Trainees (training requirement).

To register, applicants must be post-graduate year (PGY) 1+ registered medical graduates (e.g. MBBS).

Please visit the CLEAR 2025 course schedule (PDF 35.8KB).

• Australia – AU$2,155.00 (including GST)
• Aotearoa New Zealand – NZ$2,410.00 (including GST)

Australian SETs who are mandated to complete the course are exempt from GST on Australian courses.

Courses conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand will be invoiced in NZ dollars, regardless of residential country of applicant.

Course fee includes:

• course manual and articles
• a certificate upon completion
• catering

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

If a course is full, you register to be placed on the waitlist.

Our team will contact you if a place becomes available.

Cancellation/withdrawal by participant:

• Withdrawal more than 10 weeks prior to course: 95% refund of course fee
• Withdrawal less than 10 weeks prior to course: 50% refund of course fee
• Withdrawal less than 6 weeks prior to course: no refund of course fee

If you cannot attend the course due to sickness or bereavement, the refund amount will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Please email [email protected] as soon as possible.

• Transfers to alternative courses are not permitted, and will be subject to the applicable cancellation fee
• Refunds will be refunded by the payment method used at time of purchase
• Refunds for payments made by PayPal more than 6 months ago cannot be refunded. We will contact you for an alternative refund method.

Cancellation by RACS:

A full refund will be issued if a course is cancelled by RACS.

As of November 2025.

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• Click My Registrations to view your enrolled courses
• Select CANCEL for the course you wish to withdraw from
• You will receive an email notification confirming your withdrawal. Refunds, if eligible, will be processed according to the cancellation policy above.

Australia

T: +61 3 9276 7453

E: [email protected] 

Aotearoa New Zealand

T: +61 4 385 5690

E: [email protected] 

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