"Your Course is worth 5-10% extra marks" - April 2006
Why Choose Us
The purpose of my Course and my responsibility to you is to get you through the Part 2 Written Examination. This I do in several ways.
- By drawing on my experience.
I have been teaching MRCP Part 2 Written and Clinical for over 25 years. I have taught at many courses and have a very good idea what candidates need to know and how to teach it.
I set 19 mock exams including 12 pre-course exams. Candidates receive a detailed answer book with full explanations, clinical evidence, national guidelines and references etc. I have access to my bank of 1000s of relevant and challenging past MRCP MCQs and to an extensive archive of over 2000 pictures predominantly radiology including cerebral and spinal T1 and T2 MRIs, CTs and ultrasound scans, CXRs, Barium studies, HIV, ECGs etc - By keeping the course up-to-date.
When questions from the course appear in the exam they are replaced with other questions likely to appear. - By offering intensive, concentrated and focused teaching.
Candidates spend over 60 hours at the Course over the three weekends. - By presenting only material relevant to the MRCP exam.
All MCQs set in the course are past MRCP questions word for word that have appeared and hopefully will reappear in the exam. My files go back over 20 years - By ensuring that course questions are not made deliberately easy. They reflect what you may expect in the Exam itself. In this way, candidates are better prepared and not lulled into a false sense of security.
- By ensuring that questions are set from all specialties including tropical diseases, oncology haematology, neurology, ophthalmology, and psychiatry
- By allowing ample time for discussion and questions. I encourage voluntary participation and contributions from the audience - an important element in the learning process
- By introducing anecdote and humour into the discussion:
I have found that this makes it easier for candidates to remember more of the large amount of information provided. If you laugh at a question or cry... you are more likely to remember it. - By building up candidates' confidence, an aspect often overlooked but an essential ingredient for success
- By providing a stress-free learning environment. No candidate is put on the spot! You mark your own paper. Candidates learn better in a calm and cosy atmosphere
- By emphasising the importance of exam technique and pattern recognition.
It is often not what you think the answer is but what you think they (the examiners) think the answer is! - By being able to personally discuss many past MCQs with experts and distinguished consultant colleagues many of whom came to the course.
- By giving value.
Passing MRCP has its costs: physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially! I am fully aware that candidates travel long distance and give up a lot of their valuable time. The weekends are intensive and demanding. Course start at 8.45 am and finish at 8.30 pm on Saturdays and 6.30 pm on Sundays. Lunch is quick. I prefer to spend more time in the classroom than the dining room