Congratulations – our three trainees have passed the CSA exam
Congratulations this week to three of our trainees who have taken the MRCGP Consulting Skills Assessment exam and have all passed – well done to Dr Aditya Narkar, Dr Linda Halliwell and Dr Duncan Marlow.
The practice is a training practice and has doctors attached to the practice who wish to become GPs. These doctors will generally have done two years in hospital after they qualify and then join a three year GP training scheme. When they are attached to us they are either in the second or third year of their training scheme, so they have been training for at least four or five years after they have qualified at University.
In order to become GPs they have to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and obtain the qualification MRCGP. In order to get MRCGP they have to pass three assessments. The first assessment is a multiple choice exam about applying knowledge they have learnt to patients they might see in general practice. The second is a collection of Work Place Based Assessments. They have to show that they have developed the competencies of an independent general practitioner by bringing cases and video consultations for assessment by their GP trainer.
And thirdly they have to pass the Consulting Skills Assessment. This is a mock surgery with actors as simulated patients. It is taken at an assessment centre in Croydon and they have to pass eight out of a twelve consultation surgery. Each consultation lasts ten minutes and is quite a challenge for our trainees.
Linda and Duncan were attached to us last year and Aditya is currently attached to us. They do not finish their training till the end of July and they took the CSA in Jan/Feb this year – so well done again!!!
The practice is a training practice and has doctors attached to the practice who wish to become GPs. These doctors will generally have done two years in hospital after they qualify and then join a three year GP training scheme. When they are attached to us they are either in the second or third year of their training scheme, so they have been training for at least four or five years after they have qualified at University.
In order to become GPs they have to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and obtain the qualification MRCGP. In order to get MRCGP they have to pass three assessments. The first assessment is a multiple choice exam about applying knowledge they have learnt to patients they might see in general practice. The second is a collection of Work Place Based Assessments. They have to show that they have developed the competencies of an independent general practitioner by bringing cases and video consultations for assessment by their GP trainer.
And thirdly they have to pass the Consulting Skills Assessment. This is a mock surgery with actors as simulated patients. It is taken at an assessment centre in Croydon and they have to pass eight out of a twelve consultation surgery. Each consultation lasts ten minutes and is quite a challenge for our trainees.
Linda and Duncan were attached to us last year and Aditya is currently attached to us. They do not finish their training till the end of July and they took the CSA in Jan/Feb this year – so well done again!!!
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