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19 Nov
1952
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Foundation of the
College of General Practitioners as an unincorporated
association at 14 Blackfriars Lane, London EC4 [The Society of
Apothecaries].
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1st Jan
1953
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Foundation membership opened. Membership was
at first restricted to doctors in the Medical Register who had been
i) 20 years in general practice or its equivalent as a general
medical officer or ii) 5 years in general practice and who gave an
undertaking to accept postgraduate instruction for the equivalent
of three days a year or five and a half days every two years or
iii) 5 years in general practice and who possessed a higher
postgraduate degree or diploma.
The
entrance fee was 10 guineas.
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Sep
1954
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Membership recorded as 2,967 (2539 members
and 428 associates).
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20 Nov
1954
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Examination committee founded "to give full
and detailed study to an examination as a possible method of entry
to Membership of the College…".
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1957
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Proposals
that all members and associates should undertake continuing
education to maintain their membership.
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| 1962 |
Proposal that all newly qualified doctors be invited to
join the College as Associates |
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Nov
1964
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In a
reversal of past policy it was agreed that Members could use the
initials M.C.G.P.
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1 Nov
1965
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First
College examination.
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1966
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Diploma working party
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1966
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Committee
on Fellowship founded
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Nov
1967
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Resolved
that all applicants for membership must sit an
examination.
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1967
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Fellowship nomination committee formed.
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1969
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Committee
on Fellowship proposals to widen criteria [JRCGP
1969, 18, 50)
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| 1970 |
GMC agreed that MRCGP &
FRCGP become registrable qualifications |
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1972
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Establishment of Fraser Rose gold medal for the
most outstanding candidate in membership examination.
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| March 1972 |
Advanced course in General Practice [two week course – 20
sessions - for MRCGP candidates who had been principles in general
practice for 5 years but had not had vocational training) |
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1976
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Joint
Board of Censors and Education policy paper on "Hospital
posts recognised for the MRCGP examination"
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| June 1976 |
MRCGP Exam orals held in Edinburgh as
well as London |
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1978
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"The
College, it seems, should take a far more lively interest in
helping established general practitioners, especially members,
regularly to review their competence and thereby become better
doctors. More emphasis on clinical practice, continuing education
which is relevant to the everyday work of general practice, and a
commitment to the idea that the individual doctor should be
prepared to have his worked regularly assessed by his peers, are
the main inter-linked parts of this theme. Not surprisingly
therefore, there is a powerful ground swell of opinion in favour of
strengthening the faculties…" Ekke Kuenssberg
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1981
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What Sort of Doctor Working party
reported on methods of assessing clinical competence,
accessibility, ability to communicate and professional values. They
suggested that this information could be used as an incentive to
members continuing education and professional development, as a
method of formal reaccreditation of existing members of the
college, as an alternative to the present mechanism for election to
Fellowship of the College, as an alternative entry requirement for
Membership of the College particularly for established principals
and as a test for the relevance of contemporary education. [see
later What Sort of Doctor Working parties].
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1982
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Second
What Sort of Doctor working party set up to test
the first What Sort of Working Party [see
1981] method of performance review under
field conditions – in the Merseyside and South East Thames
faculties under the supervision of the College’s Stuart
Fellow.
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1982
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First
Members Reference Book
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1983
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Interim
report of Second What Sort of Doctor Working
Party
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1984
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New developments section of
Membership division "to identify and contact trainees within
the general practice element of their training and to encourage
them to participate as associates with the activities of the
College."
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| 1984 |
Traditional Essay Question Paper [TEQ]
replaced by Practice Topic Questions Paper [PTQ]
in the MRCGP exam |
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1989
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Fellowship by Assessment scheme
founded.
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| 1990 |
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| Nov 1991 |
Motion at AGM "The Welsh Faculties urge that the Royal
College of General Practitioners should mark the 40th anniversary
of the College by requiring Council to consider, as a matter of
urgency, alternative routes to membership"
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1990
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Publication of "Examination for Membership of
the Royal College of General Practitioners [MRCGP]" [Occasional
Paper 46] - a comprehensive overview of the examination, its
development and future trends.
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Dec 1992
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Agreement to waive membership fees for
doctors doing VSO.
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April 1993
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Fellowship by
Assessment devolved to Vale of
Trent Faculty
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Aug 1994
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First College membership card
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1995
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MAP scheme pilot
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1997
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Family Medicine Residency Training Scheme in
Pakistan was accredited, after a visit by Drs Iona
Heath and Steve Bell, for sitting the MRCGP with provisos
concerning the relevance and nature of the College's examination
for Pakistani candidates.
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Mar 1997
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Third, revised edition of The MRCGP
Examination published. Edited by Richard Moore.
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May 1998
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MRCGP examination changed to modular format
comprising of two written papers [replacing multiple choice,
modified essay and critical reading question papers]; an oral and
an assessment of consulting sills by submission of 15 minute
recorded consultations for the majority, but with the alternative
of a simulated surgery in approved circumstances]. Another change
was that candidates had three years to complete the examination so
they did not need to take all four modules at the same sitting and
were allowed a maximum of three attempts at each module.
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May 1998
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"The First Hundred Fellows by Assessment" by
Richard Moore published
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1999
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Dr Susan Love first member of the College
through MAP [Membership by Assessment of
Performance].
This scheme founded in 1999 allowed experienced GPs
who could show evidence of good quality practice to become members
of the College through an assessment of their performance rather
than by sitting the College’s membership examination. MAP consisted
of three separate elements which had to be passed in turn: video
assessment or simulated surgery ; a portfolio of written evidence
and a practice visit.
(the scheme closed in 2006 and was replaced by
iMap)
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April 1999
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FBA
[Fellowship by Assessment of Performance] opened to
non-principals
(FBA closed in 2006)
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Sep 2000
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JCPTGP [Joint committee on
postgraduate training for general practice] agree that a video can
be submitted as part of MRCGP examination summative assessment
element.
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January 2001
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Publication of booklet Benefits of Membership
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| 2001 |
Dr Susan Love first member of the College
through MAP [Membership by Assessment of
Performance]. This scheme founded in 1999 allowed experienced
GPs who could show evidence of good quality practice to become
members of the College through an assessment of their performance
rather than by sitting the College’s membership examination. MAP
consisted of three separate elements which had to be passed in
turn: video assessment or simulated surgery ; a portfolio of
written evidence and a practice visit.
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Oct 2001
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MRCGP [INT]
launched - an international assessment to
accredit locally developed assessment throughout the world - pilot
projects in Brunei, Kuwait, Egypt and Oman.
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Feb 2003
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Membership of the College reached 20,000
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| Nov 2003 |
Change in the performance criteria for the video
element of MRCGP exam: The language in the new criteria is
explicit and outlines achievable goals throughout. Candidates are
asked to choose a set of seven consultations which they consider
best demonstrate their competence according to the new criteria.
The submission will continue to require one consultation with a
child under ten years of age and one consultation with a
significant social or psychological dimension. A new Merit PC which
seeks to elicit the patient�s understanding of prescribed medicines
and to address any obstacles to following an agreed course of
treatment. Merit will also be judged by a new PC based on a
response to signals/cues leading to a deeper understanding of the
problem. |
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Oct 2005
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Lynne Wright becomes 100th successful candidate to gain her
MRCGP via MAP
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| 1 April 2006 |
Unifed route to Fellowship becomes sole way of
becoming Fellow replacing the two routes previously available –
Fellowship by Assessment (FBA) and Fellowship by Nomination
(FBN).
Members of more that five continuous years able to self
nominate for Fellowship based upon a portfoliio of evidence in any
or all of the six achievement categories [leadership,
patient-centred practice, teaching and education, academic and
research, innovation and creativity, clinical practice].
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| July 2006 |
iMap pilot started with 127 candidates (72
producing portfolios). The aim was to assess a portfolio
based scheme, which separated the individual from the practice, and
provided a membership route for registered GPs, in the
context of the introduction of nMRCGP
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| August 2006 |
Appointment of David Sales as first Medical Director of
Assessment to be responsible for the conduct, delivery and
quality assurance of the College's new entry exam, the nMRCGP (to
be rolled out in 2007)
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| Sep 2006 |
New membership database using integra |
| Aug 2007 |
AiT (Associates in
Training) Membership package launched |
| Aug 2007 |
Applications for e-portfolio for nMRCGP
open |
| Sep 2007 |
Student Forum Launched |
| 31 Oct 2007 |
The first live AKT [Applied Knowledge Test] was sat on 31
October by 1303 candidates at Pearson VUE centres around the
UK. |
| 25 Nov 2007 |
Launch of version2 of the
E-portfolio for nMRCGP |
| March 2009 |
A Guide to the CSA: Series 2
DVD published by Wessex Faculty |