Transcript The Intercollegiate Exam

The Intercollegiate Exam
Past Present and Future
ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
M62 COLOPROCTOLOGY COURSE
30th-31st March 2006
Why ?
An examination at this stage in training
Past
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Examination only in General Surgery
Taken by Senior Registrars
Almost no one failed
Examiners largely untrained
Questions diverse and unregulated
No sub specialty component
Present Examination
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Taken after satisfactory 4th year RITA
General Surgery and Subspecialty
Examiners all trained
Questions and answers decided on before
Three attempts before need Post Grad Dean
Present Examination
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Academic Viva -2 papers Gen and specialty
Emergency surgery and critical care oral
General surgery and Subspecialty oral
General Clinical
Sub Specialty Clinical
Present Examination
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Marking range 4-8
Academic 2 papers
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Emergency surgery /critical care
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General Surgery/Subspecialty
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General Clinical
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Subspecialty Clinical
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Must pass the Clinicals with12 Total=30
Challenges
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EWTD and shortened training/Gender
New curriculum
Government requirements
PMETB regulation
Specialty Associations
Demands for separate SAC-Breast,Vascular
Dinosaurs
Future Examination
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Educational Review
Starts in November
Test of Knowledge-MCQ and EMI
Blueprinted on the new curriculum
Pilot exam 16th of June 2006
You must pass the MCQ before proceeding
to the clinical
Future Examination
• Fully trained examiners
• each section individually and anonymously
marked total no.of marks doubled
• Content will be decided before the
examination
• Pass mark will be decided by Angoff
techniques
GENERAL SPECIALTY
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A clinical paper
Scenario based orals
Critical Care
Surgical process
Emergency surgery
General Clinical
• Classic paper
• Tertiary Referral case
• Specialty specific
investigations and
techniques
• Specialty clinical
Present problem
• No recognition of Specialty legally
• Exam can allow pass and practice even
when you fail some of subspecialty you will
be working in
• May have been in Specialty for so many
years General surgery distant memory
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Recognise changing training pathways
Separate the components
Award different degrees
Allow flexibility to change course
increase length of time of the exam
Move to in house assessment?
Goal
• FRCS General
• FRCS Colorectal