North West MRCOG Part 2 Written Course.  17th. to Saturday 22nd. January 2011.

List of contents.

1. introduction
2. date & venue
3. cost
4. application form
5. Medical Director
6. programme
7. pre-course materials
8. lecturers
9. contents of the course
10.     essay-writing
11.     answering MCQs and EMQs
12.     teaching on specialist subjects: contraception, statistics, oncology etc.
13.     teaching on clinical governance: risk management, audit etc.
14.     teaching on managerial / administrative issues: CNST, complaints' procedures etc.
15. Course Administrator
16. how to contact us
17.     phone
18.     write
19.     e-mail
20. how to get to Tameside Hospital
21. Tameside Hospital site plan 
22. map of the area around Tameside Hospital 
23. accommodation in the vicinity of the hospital

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Introduction.

The course is designed to help you to pass the MRCOG part 2 written exam.

It will give guidance and practice in all of the exam's components.

It is new, having been started in 2009.

Varsha Mulik has put a prodigious amount of thought and effort into establishing what is now a very good course.

It already has one gold medal winner in its hall of fame.

Elaine Church won the gold medal in the Spring 2010 exam.

A fantastic tribute to her abilities and endeavour.

It is hoped that she will be available to teach on the January course, particularly dealing with how to prepare.

I am sure that all exam applicants would find this most interesting and useful.

The course will particularly concentrate on the short essays as these cause most failures.

The course will include 20 essays written under examination conditions.

The lectures will mostly cover subjects that are not encountered in routine practice:

        oncology,

        neonatal jaundice,

        uro-gynaecology etc.

The programme will be similar to that of July 2010.

Pre-course materials including EMQs, MCQs and SAQs will be sent.

The maximum number on the course will be 15.

This is to enable Dr. Mulik, the Medical Director, to mark all the essays personally.

This will ensure that the scoring and feedback are consistent and comprehensive.

And not done by a junior doctor as happens on some courses!

I anticipate that the course will attract more than 15 applicants.

If you plan to come, book early to avoid disappointment.

Early booking will also give you adequate time to work through the pre-course materials.

Tom McFarlane

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Date: Monday 17th. to Saturday 22nd. January 2011.

Venue:

              Postgraduate Centre,

            Tameside Hospital,

            Fountain Street,

            Ashton-Under-Lyne.

            OL69RW.

    Tameside hospital site plan.

    Directions to Tameside Hospital.

    Map of the area around Tameside Hospital                    

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Cost:

The cost is £600.

Please make cheques payable to the NW MRCOG Course.

If you wish, we are happy for you to send a deposit of £100, non-returnable.

With the balance paid on registration at the course.

Please bring your cheque book or cash; we don't have facilities for credit cards.

Please remember to send an application form with your cheque: get one here.

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Medical Director: 

Dr. Varsha Mulik, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Tameside Hospital.

Dr. Mulik's special interest is feto-maternal medicine.

She is also the unit's lead in Clinical Governance, Risk Management, CNST etc.

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What the course will comprise:

The aim of this course is to help you prepare for the part 2 written examination.

It will provide teaching in the following.

Essay-writing:

You will write 20 essays under examination conditions during the week.

These will be marked by Dr. Mulik so that you get detailed feedback on your efforts.

More than 6 hours will be allocated to discussion of the essays and analysis of the problems encountered by the candidates.

You need to learn how to formulate a plan so the essay matches the template provided by the examination committee.

Attention will be paid to "how to add extra value", the key to getting a decent score.

The good undergraduate would get > 50% of the marks for the clinical aspects of most essays.

The extra marks you need come from your experience and widening the answer to include clinical governance etc.

This will be dealt with in the essay-writing sessions.

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How to answer MCQs and EMQs:

There are techniques to learn, particularly for the EMQs.

These will be covered and examples provided.

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Specialist subjects that you may not have dealt with directly:

        contraception,

        medical statistics,

        obstetric anaesthesia & analgesia,

        oncology,

        paediatrics etc.

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Managerial / administrative stuff:

        CNST,

        complaint procedures etc.

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There will be a detailed session to deal with aspects of Clinical Governance relevant to the exam:

        adverse incident reporting,

        audit,     

        medical report writing etc.

        protocols,

        risk management etc.

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Course Administrator:

Valerie McFarlane,

22 Lyndhurst Road,

Didsbury,

Manchester.

M20 6AA.

Phone:    0161 434 2365.

                07770893006.

Get in touch if you have any queries.

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Contact:

Phone:

Valerie M. McFarlane,.

0161 434 2365.

07770893006.

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Write to:

Valerie M. McFarlane,

22 Lyndhurst Road,

Didsbury,

Manchester.

M20 6AA.

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E-mail:

Send Dr. Mulik an e-mail.

If a full e-mail address is put on the internet, it can be picked up by spam companies which automatically scan web pages.

The unfortunate owner of the e-mail address is then deluged with spam.

So Dr. Mulik's e-mail address is disguised!

Like all e-mail addresses, it consists of:

    her e-mail name,

    then the "@",

    and, finally, the name of her service provider.

The first bit, her e-mail name, is:                             varsha.mulik.

The next bit is the @ and her service provider:      @tgh.nhs.uk.

All you need to do is to put the two together!

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Provisional programme

The programme will be similar to that of July 2010.

We are planning to give more time to the specialist talks: oncology, contraception, infertility etc.

We found that inadequate time had been allocated to them in the recent course and they were a bit rushed.

This will probably mean removing some general topics like bleeding disorders and recurrent miscarriage.

The alternative would be to extend the duration of the course, but the days are already quite long and tiring.

Monday 5^th July  2010

 Tuesday 6^th July 2010

Wednesday 7^th July 2010

Thursday 8^th July 2010

Friday 9^th July 2010

Saturday 10^th  July 2010

 Lecturers.

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Pre-course materials

 An innovation for the January 2011 course will be the use of pre-course learning materials.

These will include EMQs, MCQs and SAQs which will be sent in the months running up to the course.

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Lecturers.

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