Acute Medicine Exams

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The three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom share a common membership examination in general medicine: this is the Examination for the Diploma of Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (MRCP) of the United Kingdom. The MRCP(UK) Examination provides information on candidates’ core medical knowledge, basic clinical problem solving skills and the management of common and important medical emergencies. The core medical knowledge and skills tested in the MRCP(UK) Examination provide the very basis that equips doctors to proceed to focus on individual specialties, secure in their grounding in other systems. The MRCP(UK) Diploma does not, therefore, confer specialist status: in the UK it is recognised as an entry qualification for higher specialist training.

The MRCP(UK) Examination is divided into two parts but has three separately assessed components. These are:

• MRCP(UK) Part 1 Examination
• MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written Examination
• MRCP(UK) Part 2 Clinical Examination

For ACCS (Acute Medicine) trainees it is necessary to have achieved part 1 of MRCP before completion of ST2 though as entry to ST3 will be competitive, accomplishing the other parts of MRCP may be advantageous.