MRCP PACES: Few Imp Points

MRCP PACES:
Few Imp Points;

It’s very different examination as compared to American, Australian or other post graduate Exams.
If we know what is important, it’s easy to pass.

  1. They are not assessing you as a consultant, rather as a registrar/ SHO.
  2. They are not assessing how fluent is your English or what is you accent. Your spoken English should be understandable
    3.They are not assessing depth of your theoretical knowledge or how many guidelines you know or how many journals you have read , but they are seeing your confidence to apply that knowledge & skills clinically. So practice your knowledge by examining the patients.
  3. They assess your bedside SKILLS , how to examine & detect physical signs, interpretation of those signs to reach to a sensible conclusion/diagnosis or differential which is relevant to that case.Without being good at doing a fluent examination and detecting all the signs, one can’t pass.
  4. If one cooks the findings, certainly one will fail. So please don’t say or cook the signs which you have not detected.
  5. If one doesn’t know guidelines, they will not fail but if one can’t detect physical signs there is no way one can pass.
  6. Be polite and considerate for the patient. If a patient is hurt or uncomfortable because of one’s exam, certainly one would fail.
  7. Hand hygiene before & after examining is important. Use the gel every time.
  8. Wear a proper suit, tie & polished shoes with nicely combed hair.
  9. If you have done one mistake, forget it and move on.
  10. Failing one miner station, there is possibility of passing, but failing a major station or more than one miner station, chances of passing are minimum.
    12: Prefer to appear in an English speaking country. Any country where English isn’t a native language, one may fail if the patients or the candidate are not well versed with the language.
    13: Ryder and Mir is a good book. Read it again n again with practicing while examining the cases.
    14: Counselling sessions must be practiced well. No false statement, don’t say any info what U don’t know, be empathetic (empathy is better than being sympathetic). One doesn’t need to utter all the knowledge about that counselling scenario, be a good listener and be attentive to what the patient is trying to say. Give the role player time to speak out. Acknowledge the mistakes done if any.

Will elaborate with examples one by one.

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