Mrcpsych Exam Results

[Adriana Gowen]

Therewere 252 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in June 2024. A total of 550 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 45.82%. The trainee pass rate is 65.15%.

There were 471 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in April 2024. A total of 702 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 67.09%. The trainee pass rate is 77.11%.

There were 337 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in March 2024. A total of 638 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 52.82%. The trainee pass rate is 80.00%.

There were 309 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in January 2024. A total of 534 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 57.87%. The trainee pass rate is 73.61%.

There were 473 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in November 2023. A total of 757 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 62.48%. The trainee pass rate is 67.16%.

There were 281 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in September 2023. A total of 564 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 49.82%. The trainee pass rate is 69.31%.

There were 243 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in July 2023. A total of 599 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 40.57%. The trainee pass rate is 42.81%.

There were 154 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in June 2023. A total of 439 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 35.08%. The trainee pass rate is 41.34%.

There were 98 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in January 2023. A total of 214 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 45.79%. The trainee pass rate is 83.33%.

There were 346 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in April 2023. A total of 688 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 50.29%. The trainee pass rate is 59.35%.

There were 342 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in March 2023. A total of 550 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 62.18%. The trainee pass rate is 75.18%.

There were 271 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in January 2023. A total of 491 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 55.2%. The trainee pass rate is 79.2%.

There were 422 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in December 2022. A total of 913 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 46.2%. The trainee pass rate is 51.8%.

There were 579 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in September 2022. A total of 813 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 71.2%. The trainee pass rate is 79.9%.

There were 383 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in September 2022. A total of 714 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 53.6%. The trainee pass rate is 77.2%.

There were 481 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in June 2022. A total of 985 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 48.8%. The trainee pass rate is 53.6%.

There were 665 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in March 2022. A total of 987 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 67.4%. The trainee pass rate is 73.9%.

There were 261 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in January 2022. A total of 462 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 56.5%. The trainee pass rate is 78%.

There were 611 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held in December 2021. A total of 947 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 64.5%. The trainee pass rate is 67.9%.

There were 370 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in October 2021. A total of 811 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 45.6%. The trainee pass rate is 56.1%.

There were 344 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in September 2021. A total of 527 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 65.3%. The trainee pass rate is 85.8%.

There were 689 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper A Examination held on 22 June 2021. A total of 1112 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 62.0%. The trainee pass rate is 65.9%.

There were 52 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in May 2021. A total of 115 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 45.2%. The trainee pass rate is 54.8%.

There were 413 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych Paper B Examination held in March 2021. A total of 769 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 53.7%. The trainee pass rate is 62.7%.

There were 14 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in March 2021. A total of 22 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 63.6%. The trainee pass rate is 71.4%.

There were 199 candidates who were successful at the MRCPsych CASC Examination held in January 2021. A total of 364 candidates sat the examination. The overall pass rate is 54.7%. The trainee pass rate is 84.1%.

This prize started in 1998, the result of a bequest made by Dr Standish-Barry to the Irish Division. This was with a view to instituting a prize for the best results by an Irish graduate in the MRCPsych Membership Exams. The first such prize was given after the Autumn 1999 diet of the MRCPsych Exams, and is managed by the Exams Department of the College.

A 200 prize is given annually, presented at the College Annual Meeting, and there is no closing date. No need to apply, as Irish candidates taking the Paper B, and the CASC MRCPsych Exams will be considered.

Alexander Mezey(1922-2008) was born in Romania and qualified in medicine at the University of Geneva. After some years working in Switzerland and France, he arrived in England in 1951, and in a distinguished career was elected both FRCP (Edinburgh) and FRCPsych.

The Alexander Mezey Prize is given annually to the international medical graduate (IMG non-EU) practising in the United Kingdom. This graduate is thought by the Exams Sub-Committee to have given the best overall performance in Paper B, and the CASC.

The Exams Sub-Committee identifies the successful candidate each December, when marks from all sittings of the examinations in that year are available. The Exams Unit, part of the College's Department of Professional Standards, manages this prize.

Diet 1 includes the UK CASC in January, and the Singapore CASC in May. Diet 2 includes the UK CASC in September and the Hong Kong CASC in October. There is no need for candidates to apply as all candidates taking the MRCPsych Paper B and CASC Exams will be considered.

Aim and method: The Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC), introduced in June 2008 is the new and only clinical examination in obtaining membership of Royal College of Psychiatrists. Although there is evidence of strong validity and reliability for OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) - type examinations, the acceptability, validity and reliability of the CASC is open to challenge. We conducted a national online survey of candidates and examiners to obtain their views and aimed to evaluate whether the CASC fulfils its purpose.

Results: The survey showed that 48% of the candidates (n=110) and 59% the examiners (n=22) agreed that the CASC examines the required competencies to progress to higher training. However only 15% of the candidates and 18% of the examiners accepted that CASC examines all the advanced psychiatric skills compared to the previous Part 2 clinical examination. Nevertheless, only a third of the candidates and examiners considered replacing the CASC with traditional long case as the best way forward.

Implications: Although CASC scenarios may reflect real-life situations and its content covers most skills in piecemeal, it lacks the holistic ethos underpinning the bio-psychosocial approach unique to psychiatry. The findings of the survey suggest that the current examination method requires further systematic evaluation.

Post- graduate medical education in the United Kingdom has seen numerous dramatic changes in the last decade, with the introduction of structured training programmes and changes in assessment of skills driven by Modernising Medical Careers.1 Overall these new developments emphasise a competency based curriculum and assessments. Alongside and contingent on these wider changes in medical education, psychiatric trainees have faced major transformations in their membership (MRCPsych) examinations.

The MRCPsych examination was first introduced in 1972, a year after the Royal College of Psychiatrists was founded. There have been various modifications in its structure since its inception but a radical change occurred in the last decade with the introduction of an OSCE in 2003 and the CASC, a modified OSCE in June 2008. The CASC is considered as a high- stakes examination as it is now the only clinical and final examination towards obtaining the membership of the College. The MRCPsych qualification is considered as an indicator of achieving professional competence in the clinical practice of psychiatry and has the main aim of setting a standard that determines whether trainees are suitable to progress to higher specialist training.2 In his commentary to Wallace et al3 , Professor Oyebode describes the aims, advantages and disadvantages of the various assessment methods used in the MRCPsych examination and conclude that the precise assessment of clinical competence is essential.4

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