DHA exam for allied health.

How DHA lists allied health

Allied health is one category in the guideline, but it holds 47 different titles. Each has its own code, number of questions, stated time and pass score. Technician and technologist titles are listed separately from the professional titles, so check which one you hold, because a technologist and a technician can have different pass scores.

DHA says the stated time includes registration, process introduction and exam content. It reports pass or fail only. It can change the content, the format or the pass score without updating the guideline. Titles that are not in the guideline are assessed orally instead.

Example rows

The table shows ten examples to show the range. It is not a list of the best-known professions, and it is not complete. The full list is on the page with every title.

Official content areas: one example

For most allied titles the guideline gives a list of coverage headings with no weights, and some titles may list none. The Physiotherapist list has 10 headings: Kinesiology/Biomechanics/Ergonomics, Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Decision Making and Differential Diagnosis, Physical agents, Therapeutic Exercises and Techniques, Physical Therapy in Special Population, Cardiopulmonary, Sports, Neurorehabilitation, Musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Read the entry for your own title in the current guideline, and note that the Pharmacy Technician has its own list on the pharmacists page.

How to find your title and its requirements

Four steps, all on DHA's own documents.

1. Open the current CBT Guideline and find your profession in the Allied Healthcare section. Use the code, not only the name.
2. Check the PQR chapter on allied healthcare professionals, which has a page for each profession with the qualification and experience that DHA asks for. Use the free Sheryan Self-Assessment Tool to see what DHA says about your own qualifications.
3. If DHA does not list your title or qualification, the Sheryan FAQ says to choose the closest title in the Self-Assessment Tool and that DHA's credentialing team will select the suitable title.
4. Check the mode of exam for your title in Sheryan. If the guideline does not list it, it is an oral assessment, which this page does not cover.

What Meddex covers today

Meddex has 1760 questions tagged for allied health. 1003 of them sit in the five allied subjects written for this role: physiotherapy, clinical dietetics and nutrition, radiography and imaging, medical laboratory science and respiratory therapy. They follow the content headings DHA lists for the Physiotherapist, Clinical Dietitian, Radiographer, Medical Laboratory Technologist and Respiratory Therapist titles. The rest are the shared clinical core that every profession sees, such as patient safety, infection control, emergencies and ethics. There are no questions written for any other allied title, such as occupational therapy or optometry, and no flashcards or mocks for allied health. Counts come from the question bank when the site is built.

Full-length mocks are not offered for this role yet. They need a bank large enough to fill a 150-question paper with questions written for the profession, and the bank is not there yet. You can practise by subject for the five titles above. If you are a pharmacist or pharmacy technician, see the pharmacists page, which has the profession subjects that exist. For any other allied title, use DHA's own content list and references. The free assessment still gives you ten mixed questions on the shared topics. None of this is a promise of a pass. The questions are original, not DHA questions, DHA publishes no sample set, and they have not been reviewed by a licensed clinician.

If you use the shared topics

The shared topics are worth a few weeks for any clinician: recognising a deteriorating patient, infection control, consent and confidentiality, and medication basics. Do not treat them as a substitute for your own specialty content. DHA does not say what share of your exam is shared content. A longer guide covers a simple split and some habits, with the caution that we cannot give DHA's split.