It does not have the small but definite morbidity and mortality associated with ERCP. All candidates taking MRCGP are on the UK medical register (LRMP; List of Registered Medical Practitioners), and hence have a GMC number. In 2009, candidates who have passed the part 1 exam are able to apply for MRCP part 2 written or PACES simultaneously or in no particular order. Because MRCGP is usually taken after MRCP(UK), the correlation may reflect material that has been learned for MRCP(UK) subsequently being useful for the MRCGP examination. Both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) have knowledge assessments (MRCGP AKT (Applied Knowledge Test), and MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2, all being conventional multiple choice assessments), and each also has a clinical assessment (PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) for MRCP(UK) and CSA (Clinical Skills Assessment) for MRCGP, both being variants of an OSCE assessment. Having an external measure which is correlated with performance at MRCGP provides a tool for analysing issues which might otherwise be hard or perhaps impossible to assess. Assessment of examiner leniency and stringency ('hawk-dove effect') in the MRCP(UK) clinical examination (PACES) using multi-facet Rasch modelling. Next exam date: May 2021 £84.99 Buy Now. d Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) is a postgraduate medical qualification in the United Kingdom (UK) run by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Brit Med J. I love medicine. The performance of MRCP(UK) candidates who subsequently take MRCGP allows validation of each assessment. 2002;288:3026. High-stakes, postgraduate medical assessments should be valid. Background MRCGP and MRCP (UK) are the main entry qualifications for UK doctors entering general [family] practice or hospital [internal] medicine. BMC Med Educ 15, 1 (2015). /sqrt(r MRCGP: Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Correlations can be higher because of a greater range of marks, but that is not the explanation for the present data since the regression analysis (see Figure 1), suggests that the regression slopes of CSA on PACES are steeper for BME candidates than for white candidates. We are grateful to Liliana Chis for her assistance in this study, to Dr Sue Rendel (previously RCGP Chief Examiner) for her permission to make use of RCGP examination data, and to Dr Andrew Elder for his helpful comments on a draft of the manuscript. statement and This would not have been possible but for the exhaustive question bank and guidance by Pastest. It might be felt that there is perhaps little surprising about the fact that candidates who do well on one examination also do well on another, and so it is worth considering how a low or zero correlation could have been achieved and how it might have been interpreted. Naturally, candidates are keen to maximise their chance of success. Candidates who do better at one exam therefore do better at the other, even though MRCGP is typically taken more than three years later than MRCP(UK). Candidates’ ethnicity is of course strongly confounded with primary medical qualification (PMQ), a majority of IMGs coming from ethnic minorities. BME candidates performed less well on all five assessments (P < .001). Med Educ. In this paper one of our aims is to concentrate on just one of those strands, one which has hardly been looked at for UK postgraduate assessments, which is the extent to which performance on one assessment correlates with subsequent performance on another. Of course that alone cannot demonstrate validity, for, as has been emphasised earlier, the argument for validity requires information from multiple strands of evidence. Looking in more detail, it is clear that AKT correlates most highly with MRCP(UK) Part 1 (.673), a little less with Part 2 (.600), and least of all with PACES (.471), although the latter correlation is still substantial and highly significant. Forward-entry regression was used, with lower order terms being entered before higher-order terms. On successful completion of the assessment, general practitioners are eligible to use the post-nominal letters MRCGP that indicate Membership of the RCGP (with continued payment of RCGP fees). McManus IC, Wakeford RE. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing; 2009. London: University College London; 2014. Considering just the main correlations, shown in bold, they are highly significant (all p < .001) between the two parts of MRCGP and the three parts of MRCP(UK). While the examination meets the rigorous standards which are set and accredited by the RCGP, it does not confer holders of this qualification any … Whilst its true that pass rates are higher if you take part 1 and 2 of MRCP earlier, the effect is small and might not be causative. Table 3 summarises a series of multiple regression analyses, assessing the effect of ethnicity (BME) after taking earlier performance into account. PLAB is NOT a PG qualification, MRCP is. The analyses described below for all candidates have been repeated for UK graduates alone and almost identical results have been found, and therefore results regarding ethnicity will be reported here for the full candidate group. Reliability of the MRCP(UK) part I examination, 1984–2001. MRCGP shows a similar pattern, AKT showing an ethnicity effect after taking all three parts of MRCP(UK) into account, and CSA showing a similar ethnicity effect after taking MRCP(UK) and AKT into account. The second, more specific, aim of this paper is to examine the performance of those candidates of different ethnicities who, unusually amongst UK doctors, sat the entirely separate assessments of two major examining bodies. The relationship between CSA and PACES is not the same, however, in the various groups. Performance of candidates on MRCGP CSA in relation to previous performance on MRCP(UK) PACES, by ethnicity. Figure 1 shows the fitted effects for the relationship between CSA and PACES in the four sub-groups. They showed that the performance of IMGs in the UK was well below that of UK graduates on all available comparative measures, and that if equivalent performance on these measures was desired, then the level of the entry tests for IMGs wishing to practice in the UK, those of the GMC’s Professional Linguistics and Assessment Board (PLAB), would need to be raised substantially. Next exam date: Mar 2021 £89.99 Buy Now. BMC Med Educ. For now, this link might help: emedica.co.uk/applygp We identified 2,284 candidates who had taken one or more parts of both assessments, MRCP(UK) typically being taken 3.7 years before MRCGP. The analyses of Table 4 show that, for the knowledge examinations, the correlation of MRCGP AKT and MRCP(UK) Parts 1 and 2 are almost entirely identical for white and BME candidates. If the bile will be used later, it will travel from the liver into the gallbladder through one of the bile ductstubes that transport bile away from the liver to where it is used to aid digestion. x r Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. Data are summarized for White (W) and BME candidates taking the Old or the New version of CSA. Understanding ethnic differences can be helped by comparing the performance of doctors who take both MRCGP and MRCP(UK). Wakeford, R., Denney, M., Ludka-Stempien, K. et al. MRCP is a safer alternative to a more invasive test called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). That would be supported, but only partly supported, by Part 1 correlating most highly with the clinical medicine component of AKT and least with the organisational questions (material which does not appear in MRCP(UK)). We analyzed performance on knowledge-based MCQs (MRCP(UK) Parts 1 and 2 and MRCGP Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)) and clinical examinations (MRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) and MRCP(UK) Practical Assessment of Clinical Skills (PACES)). You may have a type of MRI scan called an MRCP. © 2021 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Royal College of General Practitioners. Don't leave hospital medicine just yet...Best wishes,Someone who did MRCP(UK) a couple of years ago. Patterson F, Denney ML, Wakeford R, Good D. Fair and equal assessment in postgraduate training? Similarly the sub-scores on AKT also show an ethnicity effect, and with the exception of AKT evidence Interpretation, the AKT sub-scores shown ethnicity effects even after taking other sub-scores into account. Previously, although marked on each of the (then, twelve) cases on three criteria of data-gathering, clinical management and interpersonal skills, candidates were separately adjudged ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ on each station, and to pass the examination they needed to achieve a specific number of ‘passes’ (normally, eight out of twelve). McManus IC, Woolf K, Dacre J, Paice E, Dewberry C. The academic backbone: Longitudinal continuities in educational achievement from secondary school and medical school to MRCP(UK) and the Specialist Register in UK medical students and doctors. Table 4 provides the average direct costs per patient (with lower and upper bounds) generated by the medical resource utilization presented in Table 2. It all depends on the specialty you choose to do. PubMed Google Scholar. I don't think its worth doing an exam you don't then use. CMT was a two-year programme, while IMT is a three-year programme. The data for MRCP(UK) consisted of a ‘history file’ extracted on 10th November 2011, containing information on candidates taking MRCP(UK) Part 1, Part 2 and PACES from 2003, 2002 and 2001 onwards. In order to interpret correlations, particularly when examinations differ in their reliability, it is helpful to ‘disattenuate’ them for differences in reliability. Esmail A, Roberts C. Academic performance of ethnic minority candidates and discrimination in the MRCGP examinations between 2010 and 2012: analysis of data. 2004;181:385. 2011;61:712–3. Cite this article. Correlations between MRCGP and MRCP(UK) were high, disattenuated correlations for MRCGP AKT with MRCP(UK) Parts 1 and 2 being 0.748 and 0.698, and for CSA and PACES being 0.636. the pass mark). doi:10.3399/bjgp13X674396. These had the effect of making stationary or slow-flowing fluid within the bile and pancreatic ducts to appear very bright relative to the low-signal intensity produced by adjacent solid tissues [2-4]. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is a special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam that produces detailed images of the hepatobiliary and pancreatic systems, including the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, pancreas and pancreatic duct. California Privacy Statement, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-014-0281-2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-014-0281-2. I C McManus. MRCGP (AKT) Next exam date: Jan 2021 £34.99 £50 Buy Now. MRCP Ireland part 2 clinicals 1: 3K: bonran: 6 years ago by monmon2012 Mrcpi part 1 sep 2014 2: 147: samuel39: 6 years ago by Abroo Mrcpi paediatrics vs mrcpch . Tighe J, McManus IC, Dewhurst NG, Chis L, Mucklow J. Cookies policy. The first aim of this paper is to evaluate the general extent to which the performance of candidates on one examination predicts their performance on the other, which may be seen as indicating the extent of an aspect of their validity. The six comparisons of Old/New CSA × AKT/CSA × Part1/Part2/PACES, merging White and BME were significant in only two cases (see bottom of Table 4: p = .013 and p = .038). MRCGP AKT was taken an average of 3.7 years (SD 1.33 years) after MRCP(UK) Part 1, with only 1.0% of candidates taking AKT before Part 1. Data linkage comparison of PLAB and UK graduates' performance on MRCP(UK) and MRCGP examinations: equivalent IMG career progress requires higher PLAB pass-marks. ‘b’ coefficients are useful for comparing across groups, particularly when the standard deviation of groups may vary. The multiple regressions show that MRCP(UK) Part 1, the examination almost always taken first, shows a strong effect of ethnicity. d This stands for magnetic resonance cholangio pancreatography (col-an-jee-oh pan-kree-at-og-raf-ee). Med Educ. the height of the lines), and because of the way PACES is coded, the intercepts can be interpreted as differences in performance on CSA of those who are exactly on the pass mark for PACES. 2014;50:1–73. A similar effect has been reported in several cohort studies, ethnic minorities underperforming at successive stages, even after taking previous performance into account by structural equation modelling. 2010;95:1057. An MRCP is used to take pictures of your gallbladder, bile duct, and pancreas. MRCP(UK) candidates can take the examination outwith the UK, and many will not have a GMC number, but neither will they be taking MRCGP. MRCGP and MRCP(UK) are the main entry qualifications for UK doctors entering general [family] practice or hospital [internal] medicine. 2012;10:60. An important general conclusion of this cross-comparison study is that there are high correlations between attainment at MRCGP and MRCP(UK), providing support for the validity of each assessment, with correlations being particularly strong between similar sub-components (MCQ to MCQ, OSCE to OSCE). BMC Medicine 2007, 5:8: www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/5/8/abstract- doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-8. ‘b’ coefficients are on the units of the outcome variable, and therefore are not easily compared across different assessments, whereas beta coefficients are dimension-less (like correlation coefficients) and hence can be more readily compared across different assessments. Detailed studies of both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) suggest that differences in performance of BME candidates are unlikely to be due to bias on the part of clinical examiners, in part because differences also exist for MCQ assessments, and because marks awarded seem to show only very small relationships to ethnicity of examiner interacting with ethnicity of candidates [10,28,29]. The MRCGP database contained information on 8,919 candidates who had taken either AKT and/or CSA. Part of BMC Medical Education 2014. If a test score can be interpreted as valid, then differences in performance between different groups of doctors can be considered to represent true differences in ability, and hence the examination can be seen as fair despite group differences. ), where r A comparison of the performance of candidates who have taken both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) assessments helps in understanding a number of issues concerning the validity of both of the examinations, as well as the impact of other factors such as ethnicity and the change in the CSA assessment. The issue of the underperformance of ethnic minority candidates and the relationship between the old and the new CSA examination are good examples of that. In addition, passing all three parts of the MRCP(UK) examination is now a requirement for entry into specialist training in the UK. BME candidates perform less well on the CSA, even after taking PACES performance into account, but the size of that difference is the same for the new CSA and the old CSA, suggesting that the new CSA is not treating BME candidates differently to White candidates. There is little doubt that performance at MRCGP and MRCP(UK) are substantially correlated, with disattenuated correlations of .748 and .698 between the knowledge exams, and .636 between the clinical assessments. MRCGP[INT] International membership The passing of a MRCGP[INT] examination enables you to become a MRCGP[INT] member. Course Facilitator. The exams are challenging and while hard work is The ‘new’ total mark comprises a summation of the three domain scores (each 0—3) on the thirteen cases making the total mark out of 117. 2014;89:1–6. The original idea for this study came jointly from RW and ICM. Slopes were lower in white candidates (b = −.095, p = .009) and were higher for the new CSA assessment (b = .098, p = .007). Analyses not reported here suggest that the order of taking MRCGP and MRCP(UK) did not correlate with AKT, but those who took MRCP(UK) first were somewhat more likely to pass CSA [22]. 10th July 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23245607. Did they fare similarly under each? The marking scheme for PACES changed in 2009 [21], although almost all of the present candidates had in fact taken it before then. Whilst the reason for the differential performance is unclear, the similarity of the effects in independent knowledge and clinical examinations suggests the differences are unlikely to result from specific features of either assessment and most likely represent true differences in ability. Thank you, I appreciate your opinion. , the disattenuated correlation which takes account of measurement error using the standard formula r In general the present sample of candidates perform better at MRCGP than typical candidates, suggesting either that studying for MRCP(UK) has benefited them, or that they were anyway higher-flying or more ambitious candidates. More then 3200 MCQ’s with answer and Page 5/8. Br J Gen Pract. It uses magnetic fields to give detailed pictures of your pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts. The intercepts are for the point where the lines cross the vertical line indicating a PACES score of zero (i.e. Validity is a difficult concept, with many definitions and sub-categories, and changing ideas about its interpretation [1-4]. Data for MRCGP AKT and CSA were available from October 2007 until May 2011; since the two components are typically taken a year apart, there were some candidates for whom data was available only for one component. Anonymous said... As the last of the generalists I think that MRCP(UK) is a much more useful qualification to have even if you become a GP.In my experience MRCGP gives the 'touchy-feely' bit but lacks the true knowledge and depth one needs to be a good generalist.Im a GP with MRCP(UK);MRCGP strikes me as a mickey mouse diploma in comparison.Hence Ive not bothered with it. The standard error of measurement is a more appropriate measure of quality in postgraduate medical assessments than is reliability: an analysis of MRCP(UK) written examinations. The meaning of ‘validity’ has evolved over the decades, and a recent review emphasizes that “test scores are of interest because they are used to support claims that go beyond (often far beyond) the observed performances” [1] (p.1). 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