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The examination will now be named the FRCPath Part 1 Examination in Allergy & Clinical Immunology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology Certificate Examination (ACICE). The changes to the examination are as below:
Please see the statement below which contains further information on dates for the examination, as well as the application period for each exam and guidance on which examination you should take. Once the GMC have provided approval of the new format, the specialty page will be updated with further information on the new format as well as sample questions.
The last sitting for the old format Part 2 oral examination only in Clinical Biochemistry for those candidates who have sat the old format written and practical Part 1 will be Autumn 2023. After this time candidates who have sat the old format Part 1 will be transferred to the Part 2 Module 1 and 2 structure.
Veterinary Pathology Part 2 candidates will now need to complete an observed necropsy before entry can be confirmed for the Part 2 examination. Please refer to the specialty regulations on the website.
We are planning to return all Part 2 examinations, practical Diploma examinations, the CHAT, and the CHCCT to offline delivery this Autumn 2021, subject to any Covid-19 restrictions. The Part 1 will remain online, as per our earlier update. Candidates outside the UK are welcome to apply for these exams, but will be subject to all travel restrictions or quarantine requirements in place from the UK government at the time of the exam.
Following approval from the GMC in May 2021, changes have been made to the FRCPath Part 2 examination in Medical Microbiology with effect from the Autumn 2021 sitting of the examination. We intend to return to running this examination in-person from Autumn 2021.
The College is pleased to officially confirm that we have received regulatory approval from the GMC for the proposed adaptations to the Part 2 Clinical Biochemistry (Module 1) examination. The College have had to make the following changes to the examination due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic:
Candidates are required to submit their finished project no more than three years after the original proposal is accepted by the College. Under current guidance, candidates who do not submit within this time are required to apply for an extension or submit a new proposal.
In order to align arrangements for HSST and non-HSST Clinical Scientist candidates, the College guidance document for Part 2 Written Options will be updated to recommend that candidates experiencing an interruption to their training programme should submit a request to the College for the three year deadline to be paused for an appropriate length of time. Examples as to when this may be appropriate include parental leave, redeployment under Covid-19, or significant family care issues.
An obvious concern with candidates able to take the exam at home is that it will essentially be 'open book!' Is there too much reliance on probity?Candidates will be fully live proctored via their webcam so any incidences of suspicious behaviour, such as repeated looking in a particular direction (e.g. downwards glances as if to look at a phone) or excessive toilet breaks, will be raised by the invigilator.
Part 2 Histopathology candidates have already been informed of which date they have been allocated to.
Once a final decision has been made with regard to Haematology, candidates will be asked for their preference (if a January sitting is going ahead). Candidates who do not receive their preferred date and are unable to sit the exam on the date allocated will be entitled to withdraw with a refund.
This is covered in the previously published Online FAQ document (below), but no, it will not be possible for candidates to make paper-based notes whilst completing online examinations to preserve the integrity of the examination. Notes and annotations can be made on the online software. Update: candidates may now use a small, handheld whiteboard for making notes during the exam. Please see the Online FAQ below for full details.
A number of Part 2 examinations have already been modularised where it is practical to do so, such as Clinical Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology. There are no plans to modularise any specialties which have not already taken this route.
Reasonable adjustments will be granted in line with the recommendations made in your supporting evidence. If you have been given additional time, then this will be included. Font sizes and colour backgrounds will be able to be changed within the TestReach system.
TestReach is fully GDPR compliant. Video footage will be temporarily stored in line with GDPR. This is strictly for the purposes of investigating incidents that may take place during an examination. For oral examinations, video footage will be temporarily stored for moderation purposes.
The environment check ensures that candidates have no ready access to material such as text books, notes or other electronic devices. The invigilator will ask for any such material to be removed from the room or placed out of reach.
Candidates were offered the choice of sitting in October or January and all candidates received their first choice. As per previous guidance, all candidates were encouraged to choose their examination sitting after consultation with their Educational Supervisor.
The majority of exams are being held online and so will not be affected. We are doing what we can to avoid lockdown complications for those exams being held in person, such as minimising candidate and examiner travel where possible, and having extra examiners on standby. Arrangements for these exams will be held under ongoing review.
If your internet drops out, you will be guided by on-screen instructions to reconnect to the exam. Your answers will be safe if this happens, as all data is automatically saved by the system at regular intervals and any time you move to a new question.
The examinations are mapped to the current curricula for each specialty so candidates should familiarise themselves with the content of these ahead of the examination. It should be noted that some specialty curricula do reference related content (e.g. novel coronavirus).
The online examinations will replicate the scenario of a paper based examination so for the majority of question types you will be able to go back and forth between questions, but in some - such as OSPEs where questions are timed - you will not be able to.
The following documents contain information regarding the delivery methods for the Autumn examinations and some frequently asked questions to accompany the Spring 2020 deferral questions. Please read both new documents.
While the vast majority of candidates behave with complete integrity, following some recent incidents candidates are reminded that when they apply to sit one of the College's examinations they agree to abide by the Examinations Regulations and Guidelines.
These Regulations and Guidelines include a candidate misconduct policy. Candidate misconduct can take many forms, including memorising questions from an examination and reproducing them elsewhere (regardless of whether this is done for profit).
Penalties for proven candidate misconduct can include declaring the result of an exam void, barring a candidate from applying for College examinations for a specified period, and reporting details of the misconduct to the General Medical Council, Health and Care Professional Council or equivalent regulatory body. Where the College's intellectual property has been infringed, the College also reserves the right to initiate civil proceedings, criminal prosecution or both.
The examination format is unchanged. Trainees must pass the FRCPath Part 2 Immunology examination including the written option as part of the FRCPath Part 2 exam in order to be eligible for a CCT in Immunology.
Trainees must pass the FRCPath Part 2 examination but this does not need to include the written option. Trainees will, however, need to demonstrate that they have completed all relevant Work Place Based Assessments (which will be checked at ARCP) in order to be eligible for a CCT in Immunology.
From Autumn 2018, the Royal College of Pathologists will introduce a new format for the FRCPath Part 1 Clinical Biochemistry examination. The new examination will comprise a single paper of 125 multiple choice questions (MCQs) in single best answer format.
From Spring 2019, there will be a change in the format of the Part 1 examination in Veterinary Clinical Pathology. The examination will comprise of two three hour papers each consisting of 20 structured short answer questions: sample questions and some further guidance can be found in the documents below.
From 2018, candidates who have been successful in the Part 1 Practical examination will continue to proceed to the Part 2 Oral examination. Candidates who are successful in the written examination but not the practical examination will proceed to a new format Part 2 Oral and Practical examination in combined Genetics regardless of the written paper taken. The Part 1 written examination will be available in the Autumn session only and the Part 2 practical and oral in the Spring session only. The Part 1 examination will be offered in the combined Genetics only. The standard of the practical in Part 2 will be comparable to the practical in Part 1.
The Part 2 examination will be modularised so candidates will have the option to sit their practical and oral components in separate sittings and in an order which best fits their training. Candidates will no longer need to have passed their Part 2 written option before proceeding to the Part 2 Oral/Practical or Oral examination but must have their project proposal approved prior to the closing deadline for the examination session in which they wish to sit.
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