Dr Una Coales's MRCGP and nMRCGP Course Programmes

nMRCGP AKT Module

09:00 Coffee and biscuits/ Registration

09:30 AKT Practice Paper 1 with answers. Mini tutorials (eyes, ENT, etc.)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:30 AKT Practice Paper 1 with answers continued.

12:30 Buffet Lunch provided

13:15 Statistics lecture and practical, dermatology, ENT fellowship lecture.

14:45 Tea and biscuits

15:00 AKT Practice Paper 2 with answers. Mini tutorials (admin, etc.) Discussion of take-home AKT HT Manual.

16:00 Plenary/ Close of day

Recommended Reading:

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4123548&c=4

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4122420&c=1

Medical Statistics Made Easy by M Harris FRCGP, GP and lecturer, Bath, UK and Gordon Taylor Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics, Univ of Bath, UK £12.99 from www.amazon.co.uk.

Get Through new MRCGP: Applied Knowledge Test by Dr Una Coales

Oxford Handbook of General Practice, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties

www.dermnet.com (free source of 23,000 dermatology pictures!)

BMJ: Clinical Evidence

British National Formulary

400 Self-Assessment Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine by Wolfe

400 More Self-Assessment Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine by Wolfe

Diagnostic Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine by Wolfe - Books 1-4 (total 800 photos)

www.gppro.co.uk/resource/resource.htm (useful website for registrars preparing for the MRCGP exam)

nMRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment Module 09:30-17:00

09:30 Coffee and Registration/ Lecture

10:30 Practice CSA (male and female actor cases) with feedback.

12:30 Hot lunch provided

13:00 Practice CSA (male and female actor cases) with feedback.

15:00 Tea

15:15 Practice CSA (male and female actor cases) with feedback.

16:30 Take home CSA manual/ Plenary

17:00 Close of course

Recommended Reading for CSA:

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4122201&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4122614&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4122911&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4123016&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4123154&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4123382&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4124272&c=1

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=21&storycode=4124593&c=1

PLAB: 100 OSCEs by Dr Una Coales.

DRCOG: How to Pass 1^st Time by Dr Una Coales.

RCGP Curriculum (available online on www.rcgp.org.uk ).