Hi all,
I'm wondering how the vibe is out there, after the recent exam results in May 2010. We heard back from a lot of our strong candidates who passed the OSCE but now need to resit the OCI. Now that the dust has settled, I'd love to hear how people are prearing to move forward, and if they have decided to sit again this year or wait to 2011.
We have our three courses for Present 2 Pass beginning to fill up. It's so exciting; this round we will enrol our 100th participant! If that is you, we will be awarding you with a lovely gift voucher to spend on your self, as well as a suite of all our training DVDs.
WE have post up two dates for our OCI refresher series; a one day workshop which will be entirely different from P2P, and designed for those who need to re sit the OCI. Come along for lots of practice and feedback on performance, with the new marking criteria in mind.
And stay tuned; we have something very special to launch for all of you that have been asking for a course to help prepare for the writtens!
If you need further information, please call Georga at our office on (03) 9427 8176 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (03) 9427 8176 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (03) 9427 8176 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (03) 9427 8176 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email at g.oneill@cpdformulations.com.au
Once again, best wishes for your exam preparation!
Take care,
Helen
Showing posts with label RANZCP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RANZCP. Show all posts
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Exam success for RANZCP exemption candidates!
It has been so pleasing to hear from our recent graduates of Present to Pass® who achieved success in the RANZCP clinical exams in November 2009. A number of graduates had attempted to pass the exams on a few occasions, and did let us know that tips they learnt at our workshops helped them with preparation and on the day.
We are so thrilled to hear the good news, and will continue to ask for feedback to ensure that our course remains valuable for registrars.
We are also developing a new program for surgical registrars sitting the FRACS clinical examinations. We know that presentation skills and anxiety management training is relevant to all registrars sitting oral exams, regardless of specialty.
So if you know of any surgical registrars who might like to take part in our courses, please forward this on, and invite them to join our database. That way, we can ensure they are notified when the dates are set.
We are so thrilled to hear the good news, and will continue to ask for feedback to ensure that our course remains valuable for registrars.
We are also developing a new program for surgical registrars sitting the FRACS clinical examinations. We know that presentation skills and anxiety management training is relevant to all registrars sitting oral exams, regardless of specialty.
So if you know of any surgical registrars who might like to take part in our courses, please forward this on, and invite them to join our database. That way, we can ensure they are notified when the dates are set.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Reflections of a Local Hospital Co-ordinator for the RANZCP exams
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Just added is a document which contains some insights from a local hospital co-ordinator for the RANZCP clinical exams. Here is a snippet...
"Once the RANZCP decides on the location for the clinical examinations, various hospitals are chosen to host the OCI (observed clinical interview) and OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) component of the examinations. The OCI is held over two days in most occasions and up to 8 candidates are examined on each day at each site, if two streams are running concurrently. The OCI begins by 8am and concludes at 5.15pm, hence, a very long day for all involved"...
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Can't sleep because of the exams?
This is a common phenomena and pretty much universal. However, once the exams are over things tend to settle down and we get back to normal routine.
But for many of our patients, sleep is a huge problem, either because of their mental illness, or the effects of medication, or both.
We have been running SleepSchool, a full day workshop that speaks to this important topic and made possible by an educational grant from CSL Laboratories. The feedback has been overwhelming after we held successful workshops in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. We are planning for more workshops but want to hear about what you’d like to know about sleep Psychiatry. Feel free to talk to Alyssa at the RANZCP conference in Adelaide in 2009. She’ll be based at the CSL stand.
Interestingly, there will be a symposium on sleep disorders as part of the RANCZP program. This symposium has not been organised by CPD Formulations but encompasses the key themes of the SleepSchool series, and you may notice the same speakers. We think it’s a great thing that psychiatrists are talking more about sleep!
But for many of our patients, sleep is a huge problem, either because of their mental illness, or the effects of medication, or both.
We have been running SleepSchool, a full day workshop that speaks to this important topic and made possible by an educational grant from CSL Laboratories. The feedback has been overwhelming after we held successful workshops in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. We are planning for more workshops but want to hear about what you’d like to know about sleep Psychiatry. Feel free to talk to Alyssa at the RANZCP conference in Adelaide in 2009. She’ll be based at the CSL stand.
Interestingly, there will be a symposium on sleep disorders as part of the RANCZP program. This symposium has not been organised by CPD Formulations but encompasses the key themes of the SleepSchool series, and you may notice the same speakers. We think it’s a great thing that psychiatrists are talking more about sleep!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Many ways to prepare for college exams
We have been involved with creating programs for psychiatry registrars for 3 years now, and have recently forayed into the world of webcasting.
As always, our marketing and creative director, Alyssa Milton, has led the way with new initiatives to reach time poor, geographically isolated doctors in training, and this new venture has proven to be a great success.
Webcasting offers live streaming so that participants can watch and be truly involved in the teaching session rather than watching a podcast after the event. We used webcasting to broadcast our new “Present to Pass OSCE series”, a series of 4 weeks encompassing 4 clinical areas that can be examined as part of the RANZCP OSCEs .
The actors were brilliant as usual, and took on very challenging roles, including playing patients with neuroleptic malignant syndrome, experiencing the highs of bipolar illness and coming to terms with the loss after a bushfire. Our examiners were experts in their clinical domains, and were able to offer tips for success in the OSCEs and dealing with these conditions in general.
We are planning to run these seminars again in 2009, and were debating which clinical areas should be explored. I’m thinking topics that are hard to access via the standard clinical rotations, i.e the ones that evoke that sinking feeling when we read the scenarios in the sample OSCE stations or on past papers! Forensic? Eating disorders? Old age psychiatry? I will ponder and invite comments.
We are continuing to run Present to Pass® and hope to see participants from NSW and New Zealand in the next few months. We are thrilled about this as the feedback always mentions the positive effect of attending a workshop with registrars from other hospitals and settings.
We hope to continue adding valuable information to our website and including podcasts for downloading, as well as highlights from seminars we have organised.
As always, our marketing and creative director, Alyssa Milton, has led the way with new initiatives to reach time poor, geographically isolated doctors in training, and this new venture has proven to be a great success.
Webcasting offers live streaming so that participants can watch and be truly involved in the teaching session rather than watching a podcast after the event. We used webcasting to broadcast our new “Present to Pass OSCE series”, a series of 4 weeks encompassing 4 clinical areas that can be examined as part of the RANZCP OSCEs .
The actors were brilliant as usual, and took on very challenging roles, including playing patients with neuroleptic malignant syndrome, experiencing the highs of bipolar illness and coming to terms with the loss after a bushfire. Our examiners were experts in their clinical domains, and were able to offer tips for success in the OSCEs and dealing with these conditions in general.
We are planning to run these seminars again in 2009, and were debating which clinical areas should be explored. I’m thinking topics that are hard to access via the standard clinical rotations, i.e the ones that evoke that sinking feeling when we read the scenarios in the sample OSCE stations or on past papers! Forensic? Eating disorders? Old age psychiatry? I will ponder and invite comments.
We are continuing to run Present to Pass® and hope to see participants from NSW and New Zealand in the next few months. We are thrilled about this as the feedback always mentions the positive effect of attending a workshop with registrars from other hospitals and settings.
We hope to continue adding valuable information to our website and including podcasts for downloading, as well as highlights from seminars we have organised.
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