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The MRCPsych Examination—A Consumer Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Carol Trotter  and
Gareth Hughes
Carol Trotter
Affiliation:
Southampton
Gareth Hughes
Affiliation:
Bristol
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Few postgraduate medical examinations have attracted so much comment and criticism as the MRCPsych. The main participants in the debate have been the College and its various training sub-committees, and APIT which has always been opposed to the MRCPsych examination in principle (Bulletin, April 1979). In a recent Newsletter (March, 1980) APIT stated that only 5 out of 90 trainees in their 1979 survey felt that passing the MRCPsych examination proved that one is a competent psychiatrist. It felt that the examination had ‘crystallized’, with no fundamental changes despite a number of Examination Forums held by the College. Radical changes in order to improve the examination were therefore advocated.

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Trainees' Forum
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 8 - 9
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