Assessments in nMRCGP

Mark Halloran

What is nMRCGP?

New Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Required for your CCT (Certificate of completion of training)

Undertaken in 3 parts: AKT, CSA, and WPBA

Costly!

AKT What?

Applied Knowledge Test 3 hour MCQ/EMQ

When? 28/10/09 apply by 14/9/09 27/1/10 apply by 21/12/10 28/4/10 apply by 26/3/10

Where? Pearson Vue Driving Test centres

AKT Apply through RCGP website Preparation:

Books - many MCQ books available Websites - Passmedicine, AKT revision Study Groups From RCGP curriculum Guidelines (? Not too recent) Include areas such as statistics and GP

management

CSA What?

13 Station OSCE type exam

When? 25/1/10 – 13/2/10 apply by 18/12/09 23/11/09-2/12/09 apply by 26/10/09 6/5/10-19/5/10 apply by 12/3/10

Where? Close to Croyden east station

CSA Apply through RCGP website Preparation:

Video & r/v with marking scheme COT with trainer Role play Study groups ? Get normal consultations down to 10 mins Think about shared mx plans and picking up cues

WPBA

COT Similar to MiniCex More teaching to follow Start early (first few weeks)

CbD Use as a guide to learning not just as

assessment Don’t worry if not initially ‘Excellent’!

WPBA Learning log

In depth reflection not just a record Make time to enter notes 2 Quality reflections / week

PDP To guide learning Update regularly Use to guide study leave etc

ARCP

Annual Review of Competences Panel May - ePortfolio needs to be complete (with

exception of OOH) Will examine each section and subsection Mayhave to extend training If not successful after 6 months additional

training may be ‘let go’