MRCGP: examining the exam.

CSA Revision Notes for the MRCGP

Several years ago postgraduate training in general practice received a complete overhaul and the examination now consists of a written exam called the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) and a Clinical Skills Examination (CSA). The CSA is an OSCE type exam where students deal with a series of clinical scenarios and are assessed in three key areas; data gathering, clinical management and interpersonal ...

Examining ethics - developing a comprehensive exam for a bioethics master's program.

Assessing mastery of bioethics in a graduate program requires careful attention not simply to the content knowledge and skill development of students but also to the principles of sound assessment processes. In this article, we describe the rationale, development process, and features of the comprehensive exam we created as a culminating experience of a master's program in bioethics. The exam b...

Does the MRCGP examination discriminate against Asian doctors?

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether the membership examination for the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) discriminates against doctors of Indian subcontinent ethnic origin ("Asian doctors"). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data from five administrations of the MRCGP examination (December 1988-December 1990). SETTING United Kingdom national examination body. SUBJECTS 3686 doctors ...

The MRCGP examination and its methods. IV: MEQ paper.

The real final exam.

Editor’s Note: Every departing Medical Student, Graduate Student, Urology Research Resident, and Post-Doctoral Fellow trained in Dr. Donald S. Coffey’s laboratory or classroom for 4 decades has been given this “real final exam”—in either oral, written, or both forms. Some believe the wisdom in it passed on to the next generations of cancer researchers is as vast and generous and dedicated to th...