By Paul Kerry in A doctor's life on Thursday, June 4, 2009 @ 09:10

Actual entries in a Mpumalanga Hospital Register 1. The patient refused autopsy. 2. The patient has no previous history of suicides. 3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital. 4. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound... read more

By Hannah Brown in MRCP PACES on Thursday, May 21, 2009 @ 14:58

In December we launched the first PACES course online, ‘PacesCases’, with only 25 cases.  Five months on we’re coming to the end of the launch, and we now have 200 key exam cases.  Feedback has been excellent, and our favourite success stories have been candidates who didn’t attend... read more

By Hannah Brown in MRCP PACES on Monday, May 18, 2009 @ 11:18

Causing all sorts of problems with the 2009(02) applications (it seems everyone wants to get PACES out of the way before its introduction) the new station 5 will be introduced for the 2009(03) diet.  Seen as a 'pilot' by many, courses are sure to be oversubscribed as candidates struggle to... read more

By Hannah Brown in MRCP on Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 00:00

According to the RCP's annual reports, revenue from exam candidates is down by not insignificant amounts.  PACES candidates alone are down from 4,500 to 3,600 per year - that's a lot of exam fees the RCP are missing out on.  So ladies and gentlemen... [drumroll], please welcome... read more

By Lisa Quinn in MRCP PACES on Thursday, May 14, 2009 @ 09:14

In preparation for the many clinical courses I help to organise, I give daily consideration to the amount of patients we will require on each of the courses, whether it is for MRCP PACES, MRCS OSCE or the MRCPCH Clinical We are continuously looking to recruit more volunteer patient... read more

By Joe Pritchard in A doctor's life on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 15:23

With the majority of our blog posts focusing on medicine, I have decided to write a little something about the roles of computers and the internet in education and how I see these roles developing and expanding in the future. This is a topic that is incredibly important to us as a company and... read more