Abstract
I have just learned with amazement and indeed horror from one of the senior house officers (SHOs) that in order to proceed to the second examination (the objective structured clinical examination) candidates will need to score 78.2% in the multiple choice question paper of the MRCPsych part I exam.
Highlights
I have just learned with amazement and horror from one of the senior house officers (SHOs) that in order to proceed to the second examination candidates will need to score 78.2% in the multiple choice question paper of the MRCPsych part I exam
I have seen several excellent well educated trainees be unsuccessful in gaining their membership and lost to psychiatry
It seems ironic at a time of great shortages of psychiatrists in the National Health Service (NHS) and at a time when the NHS seems to be trying to attract any available psychiatrist from overseas to work in Britain
Summary
I have just learned with amazement and horror from one of the senior house officers (SHOs) that in order to proceed to the second examination (the objective structured clinical examination) candidates will need to score 78.2% in the multiple choice question paper of the MRCPsych part I exam. Is the exam too easy or has the standard been raised too high in an attempt to ensure that roughly 50% of the applicants pass each time. One might ask whether the apparently better preparation of the candidates for the MRCPsych exam has pushed the standards unnaturally and undesirably high.
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