Transition Arrangements
The new assessment process, nMRCGP, will start in August 2007.
For doctors completing their GP training in February 2008, this
would only allow 6 months to undertake the whole of the new
assessment. Workplace Based Assessment (WPBA) is intended to
cover the whole three years of training, so it would be difficult,
if not impossible, for trainees to complete this component, and the
Clinical
Skills Assessment (CSA) and Applied Knowledge Test (AKT), in just 6
months.
Therefore, doctors finishing training in
February 2008 should complete the Summative
Assessment Application Form and send it to their local Deanery
as soon as possible.
These doctors are strongly advised to sit the
final Summative Assessment MCQ in May 2007 (or, they could do
the MRCGP MCP if they wish but should note that it is pitched at a
different level than the SA MCQ). Anyone who fails at this
stage will then have to take the AKT in October 2007. A pass in the
AKT will count towards both Summative Assessment and
MRCGP.
These doctors are also encouraged to apply for the current
(old style) MRCGP. The final date for acceptance of first
time applicants (i.e. someone who has not already sat a
component of the MRCGP) is Wednesday 29 August
2007. No further new
applicants will be accepted to the old MRCGP after this date,
or later in the year.
In addition, all of these doctors
(except those doing the Leicester Simulated Patient Surgery -
SPS) are expected to submit their videos via the MRCGP/SA
Single Route Video - the COGPED-only video will not be
available from August 2007.
And finally, the transition documents
originally stated that "a GPR has to have
completed a component of Summative Assessment by
31 July 2007 to be able to continue down that route". It has
recently been agreed to amend the wording, so that anyone who has
started down these old assessment routes, or has expressed an
intention to do so (i.e. by completing SA application form) should
be allowed to continue. This ensures that those, for example,
who may fail the SA MCQ in May can continue down the SA/old MRCGP
route. (NB, please note that the MRCGP video and MRCGP MCP are both
approved as SA methods, so therefore count as SA components
for this purpose).
The transition documents are being amended to
reflect this and will be posted on this website in due course.
There is also a section of nMRCGP FAQs on this website and on the
NOSA
website.
The information sheets below contain further information on
transition:
Information Sheet 2
Information
Sheet 3