1. Assessments in nMRCGP Mark Halloran

2. 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!

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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’!

8. 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

9. 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’