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Multiple choice examinations and the MRCPsych: “Between guesswork and certainty in psychiatry”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Julian H. Race
Julian H. Race*
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Academic Sub-Department of Psychological Medicine in North Wales, University of Wales College of Medicine, North Wales Hospital for Nervous and Mental Disorders, Denbigh, Clwyd LL16 5SS
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More than two decades ago, Aubrey Lewis delivered a visionary Bradshaw lecture to the Royal College of Physicians (Lewis, 1958). The address centred upon the place of scientific method as applied to the art of psychiatry. In his concluding remarks, Lewis emphasised the ardours and perils of guessing. Nowhere is the temptation to guess more clearly illustrated than in multiple choice examinations.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 87 - 88
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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