MRCP(UK) PART 2 Clinical Examination (PACES): a Review of the First Four Examination Sessions (June 2001 - July 2002)

Overview

Journal Clin Med (Lond)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2003 Nov 7

PMID 14601946

Citations 8

Authors

Jane Dacre

Mike Besser

Patricia White

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

The Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians introduced the new MRCP(UK) Part 2 Clinical Examination (PACES) in June 2001. This paper reviews the academic rationale for the development of this new examination and discusses the preliminary results from the first four diets (new style examination sessions).

Citing Articles

Passing MRCP (UK) PACES: a cross-sectional study examining the performance of doctors by sex and country.

Unwin E, Potts H, Dacre J, Elder A, Woolf K BMC Med Educ. 2018; 18(1):70.

PMID: 29625566 PMC: 5889582. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-018-1178-2.

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.

McManus I, Woolf K, Dacre J, Paice E, Dewberry C BMC Med. 2013; 11:242.

PMID: 24229333 PMC: 3827330. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-242.

Investigating possible ethnicity and sex bias in clinical examiners: an analysis of data from the MRCP(UK) PACES and nPACES examinations.

McManus I, Elder A, Dacre J BMC Med Educ. 2013; 13:103.

PMID: 23899223 PMC: 3737060. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-103.

Resitting a high-stakes postgraduate medical examination on multiple occasions: nonlinear multilevel modelling of performance in the MRCP(UK) examinations.

McManus I, Ludka K BMC Med. 2012; 10:60.

PMID: 22697599 PMC: 3394208. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-60.

Changing PACES: developments to the examination in 2009.

Elder A, McAlpine L, Bateman N, Dacre J, Kopelman P, McManus C Clin Med (Lond). 2011; 11(3):231-4.

PMID: 21902073 PMC: 4953313. DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-3-231.