photographic and other visual material, and considers more in-depth issues of diagnosis and management within internal medicine. Both examinations are blue-printed to cover the typical range of acute and chronic conditions presenting in the wide range of patients seen in general medical practice, and...
A study flow diagram is featured below (see Fig. 1). There were two protocol deviations due to errors by the research delivery team. In one deviation, the delivery team omitted to undertake the extra participant eligibility check with the SEU team as per the protocol, leading to a patient...
This study investigated the extent to which the necessarily narrower ability range in candidates taking the second of the three part MRCP(UK) diploma examinations, biases assessment of reliability and SEM. Methods a) The interrelationships of standard deviation (SD), SEM and reliability were ...
Material and MethodsSix patients (age range 30-73, M:F 4:2) with previous acute, recurrent acute or chronic pancreatitis referred for routine MRCP investigation underwent high- resolution projection imaging using both the conventional and the adaptive interactive sequences. The patients were fully fa...
For Part 1, Part 2, and PACES, negative marks indicate a fail, and positive marks a pass. All MRCP(UK) marks were analyzed in relationship to the mark at the first attempt, which other research has shown is a good indicator of overall performance [26]. The 1990 Cohort Study The ...
In the present study, our primary aim was to assess the predictive validity of measures of secondary school attainment in the UK in predicting performance not only in undergraduate medical school examinations, but also in post-graduate training. Because we had access to those data, we particularly...