By Hannah Brown in MRCP PACES on Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 09:10

Since we've been spending the last few months trawling the internet for information about the new station 5 in MRCP PACES I thought I'd share some of the pages I've found.  As I find any more information on the PACES changes i'll add them here, and feel free to add any more yourself in the... read more

By Hannah Brown in MRCP PACES on Monday, August 10, 2009 @ 11:56

Changes to PACES station 5 has caused all manner of problems in the run up to its full introduction for the October 2009 diet.  Exams in June were massively oversubscribed as candidates wanted a last go at the old exam, and the Royal College of Physicians have even added an extra exam in... 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 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