Oyamed is an AMC exam preparation course built specifically for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) seeking medical registration in Australia.

It covers all three components of the AMC clinical pathway: the AMC MCQ (Part 1), the AMC Clinical OSCE (Part 2), and the PESCI (Pre-Employment Structured Clinical Interview) For GPs— giving IMGs a single, coherent preparation resource for the entire journey to registration.

Oyamed was founded by an IMG doctor who trained in India, passed the AMC MCQ Cat and Clinical OSCE on the first attempt, and is a current university OSCE examiner and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Everything Oyamed teaches is built around what actually works — not generic medical theory.

Preparation is available through 1:1 coaching sessions, mock OSCE and PESCI practice, and written study guides, across multiple packages to suit different needs and budgets.

The name Oyamed comes from Oya — a powerful goddess in Yoruba tradition, associated with strength, protection, and transformation.

Those three qualities were chosen deliberately. The journey an IMG takes — leaving their home country, rebuilding their career in an unfamiliar system, and facing one of the hardest professional exams of their life — is an act of profound transformation. It demands strength to keep going when it is hard, and protection from the kind of underprepared, overconfident exam attempts that end careers before they begin.

Oyamed exists to be that preparation. The name is a quiet reminder that what you are doing takes courage — and that with the right structure and the right guidance, transformation is not just possible, it is the expected outcome.

Oyamed was founded by an Indian-trained doctor who went through the entire AMC pathway as an IMG — including the clinical exam — and passed the AMC MCQ and Clinical OSCE on the first attempt.

     What sets Oyamed apart from virtually every other AMC preparation course is that the founder is not just a former candidate — they are a current university OSCE examiner for medical schools, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

The HEA Fellowship is a formally recognised qualification in higher education teaching and learning, awarded to educators who demonstrate excellence in how they design and deliver learning. It is held by academics and clinical educators across UK and Australian universities.

     This means Oyamed’s founder understands the exam from both sides of the table — as someone who sat it as an IMG, and as someone who now designs and delivers OSCE assessments for medical students. That dual perspective is genuinely rare, and it is built into everything Oyamed teaches.

Oyamed has now coached more than 150 IMGs through their AMC OSCE preparation.

Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, experience levels, and countries of training — from first-time sitters who want to get it right from the start, to repeat candidates who have struggled and need a structured reset.

The feedback Oyamed consistently receives is that the combination of a proven framework, realistic mock practice, and personalised coaching gives candidates a level of confidence they couldn’t find elsewhere.

Most AMC OSCE courses are built by educators who haven’t personally sat the exam as an IMG, and who have never stood on the examiner’s side of a clinical assessment. Oyamed is different on both counts.

The Oyamed founder passed the AMC OSCE as an IMG on their first attempt — and is also a current university OSCE examiner for medical schools and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

That combination is exceptionally rare. It means Oyamed doesn’t just tell you what the exam involves — it tells you exactly what examiners are looking for, how marking decisions are made in real time, and what separates a passing performance from a failing one. That is knowledge you simply cannot get from a course built by someone who has never sat in the examiner’s chair.

Oyamed also focuses specifically on what IMGs struggle with most: not medical knowledge, but structured communication, cultural adaptation, and exam technique. That is a very different kind of preparation — and it is where marks are won and lost.

It means your preparation is calibrated to exactly what happens inside the examiner’s mind during a real clinical assessment — not a guess at it.

 As a university OSCE examiner, the Oyamed founder sits in live assessment stations marking candidates in real time, briefs simulated patients before each circuit, gives structured feedback to students after stations, and moderates marking across examiners to ensure consistency. That is not theoretical knowledge of how OSCEs work — it is direct, current, hands-on experience of exactly how clinical candidates are assessed and where they succeed or fail.    

Concretely, it means Oyamed can tell you: which behaviours trigger an immediate examiner concern, what a borderline performance looks like versus a clear pass, how examiners respond when candidates recover from a stumble mid-station, and what the most commonly missed marking points are across each station type.

When an Oyamed coach tells you ‘examiners mark it this way’ — they are speaking from the position of someone who actually does.

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) — now formally known as Advance HE — is a professional recognition awarded to educators who meet rigorous standards in university-level teaching and learning.

It is held by academics and clinical educators at universities across the UK, Australia, and internationally. Achieving it requires demonstrating evidence-based teaching practice, a commitment to student learning, and engagement with the scholarship of education — not just subject expertise.

For Oyamed students, the HEA Fellowship means your preparation is not designed based on intuition or personal experience alone. It is structured using evidence-based educational principles: how people learn under pressure, how to build clinical reasoning skills efficiently, how feedback should be framed to drive improvement, and how to design practice that transfers into real exam performance.

In short, the HEA Fellowship means Oyamed’s founder doesn’t just know medicine and OSCE examining — they know how to teach, and how to teach effectively.

The AMC OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) is the clinical component of the Australian Medical Council examination pathway for International Medical Graduates.

It consists of a series of timed clinical stations — typically 8 minutes each — in which candidates interact with trained actors playing patients. Stations test history taking, physical examination, communication skills, data interpretation, and clinical reasoning.

Passing the AMC OSCE is a mandatory step for IMGs seeking general registration with the Medical Board of Australia. It is widely regarded as one of the most challenging parts of the AMC pathway.

The AMC OSCE is not primarily a test of medical knowledge. Most IMGs who fail do so because of how they present, not what they know.

Common reasons include: unstructured consultations, missing ICE (Ideas, Concerns, Expectations), poor time management within 8-minute stations, language that doesn’t suit the Australian clinical context, and inability to connect clinical findings to a clear management plan.

The exam also tests cultural competence — demonstrating empathy, patient-centred communication, and awareness of Australian healthcare values. These are skills that require specific preparation, not just medical revision.