MRCOG Training in Manchester.

I run training sessions for the MRCOG several times each week.

Normally on Monday and Thursday evenings at my home in Manchester.

The address is:

22 Lyndhurst Road,

Didsbury,

Manchester. M20 6AA.

Find it here on Google Maps.

The teaching is free.

Anyone planning to sit the MRCOG can attend.

The sessions take place from about 19.00 to 21.00 hours.

This means the sessions are really only suitable for people who live or work close to Manchester.

However, if you are in the Manchester area, even for just a few days, you are welcome to join us.

The pass rate is usually 100% for those who attend regularly and work hard.

It is rare for it to be < 80%.

This makes it worth the effort as the MRCOG part 2 pass rates are:

    ~ 25% overall,

    ~ 60% for UK graduates.

It is best to join the teaching at least 6 months, but preferably 12 months, before the written exam.

All you need do is get in touch.

Have a look at the exam calendar.

You will see that there is an interval of about 3½ months from the oral exam until the next written exam.

While the interval between the written and the oral is about 2½ months.

We follow this cycle.

After each oral exam, we prepare for written examination.

The bulk of the time is spent on essay preparation, as this is the hardest bit and attracts most marks.

So, we have roughly 3½ months preparing for the written.

As soon as the written examination is over, we switch into training for the clinical examination.

This gives us about 2½ months, which we find adequate.

We spend a lot of time on the role-play stations.

There is a huge amount to learn and practise:

    how to introduce yourself.

    avoidance of medical jargon and arcane vocabulary,

    how to embolden the patient so she asks questions and tells you what she does not understand,

    how to explain difficult concepts like recessive inheritance, risk, screening versus diagnostic testing etc.,

    how to deal with angry patients,

    how to deal with complaints,

    and so on.    

 See communication skills for further details.

But we try to cover all the other types of stations as well.

For contact details click here

Tom McFarlane.