Road Trip to Excellence: Getting started for PACES

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Getting started for PACES

To get started.. good references will be extremely important. Here are the "must-have":

these two great books are still relevant though they have changed the station 5 to "brief clinical consultation

Next will be the "Look & Proceed - A guide for the clinical medicine examination" by Derrick Aw - this great book gives a step-by-step approach for each systems and important disease in PACES.

Will be great if you have this too:

2 comments:

bossDecember 1, 2009 at 3:31 AM
PRACTISE, PRACTISE AND PRACTISE!!!! Do not study too much on the books.
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MRCPian 3/09December 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM
Well, different people have got different ways studying. Some need more books than the others. But definitely true... PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT! Can minimize the luck factor. :)
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Get your map, compass and backpack ready.. here we go!

MRCP (UK) is short for Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (United Kingdom). It is an option for doctors in Malaysia to pursue their postgraduate studies, other than Masters in Internal Medicine. It serves an entry examination for further subspecialty training. In order to face this, one has got to be independent as there is no special class/lectures to guide through. It has 3 parts: Part 1 and 2 are written papers. PACES is short for Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skill. RCP constantly makes changes maintain their standard. Since 2009, PACES and Part 2 (written) can be taken in any order. Other major changes were made during the third diet in 2009- marking system and huge change to Station 5. As I go on, I will provide more details on the changes.. I was one of those who had gone through the new PACES (nPACES) and hope it will be helpful!