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Bristol Q

Dates of Course: starting mid January 2012
Venue: Anaesthetic Department BRI 1800 onwards on Wednesdays

Aims and Objectives

  • Practice at answering SAQs under exam simulated conditions
  • Opportunity to learn about and try different approaches and techniques to answering SAQs
  • Opportunity to mark papers by contemporise, giving you a chance to learn more about presentation and ease of reading an answer.
  • Access to a bank of continually evolving questions, based upon up to date published articles and guidelines.
  • Write your own SAQs to see how they are constructed.
  • Anonymous environment. Whatever is written or said in the exam room does not get discussed with anyone else. Aim to create an environment where you can ask any question no matter how basic and anything you write will not be talked about outside of the group.

Outline of Course

Over the 2 months before the exam the group meets each week. The course begins with 4 question SAQs, building up to 8 and finally a 12 question mock paper. There will be input at various stages by consultants in the form of talks and SAQ papers.

Candidates Contribution

In return for running the course we ask two things;

  1. Completion of feedback forms (we need to prove we are making a difference).
  2. Write an SAQ. We will allocate a topic (usually from a recent CME article) for you to construct a question and perfect answer. These will be used by us predominately for future papers and courses. This does also help you to appreciate how an SAQ is designed and how you can obtain marks.

The alternative to these is to pay a course fee, currently £50.

Courses will be run by colleagues who have recently passed the FRCA which will ensure the course is relevant and up to date.

Course Co-ordinators: Gemma Nickols, Nirosha de Zoysa and Hannah Wilson

Course founder directors:  Dom Hurford, Clare Hommers, Tim Hooper, Miguel Garcia-Rodriquez.