I have been to a number of meetings and had numerous discussions with colleagues, who lament the loss of the practical component of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) exam. With a tear in their eye they talk about the “good old days”, that the exam was “character building” and how “trainees today have it so easy”… but is this really true? Was the practical exam such an essential element of the examination, were we made better for completing it; were those days really all rosy and wonderful as they say? And if so why has it been changed?
Back in the dim distant past when I took my FRCPath exam it was very different to what it is now. In 2003 the FRCPath consisted of two parts, and was sat after 1-3 years in a Registrar post. You needed to “lose some sense of reality” my wife says in order to submerge yourself enough to pass!
Back in the dim distant past when I took my FRCPath exam it was very different to what it is now. In 2003 the FRCPath consisted of two parts, and was sat after 1-3 years in a Registrar post. You needed to “lose some sense of reality” my wife says in order to submerge yourself enough to pass!
The FRCPath exam..."you mean being a junior doctor isn't enough of a stress test!"
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