MRCP PACES Exam is the final and practical component of the MRCP(UK) Examination. The examination is designed to assess a candidate’s ability to examine patients and to communicate their findings. It is a ‘station-based’ examination, with each station focusing on a specific clinical skill.

The examination is divided into two parts, each of which is taken on a separate day. Part one focuses on the cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal systems, while part two focuses on the nervous, musculoskeletal and genitourinary systems.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate their clinical skills in a number of scenarios, which are designed to test their ability to deal with common problems that they are likely to encounter in clinical practice. The examination is a demanding one and candidates are expected to have a good working knowledge of the relevant anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. They should also be able to apply this knowledge to the clinical problems that they will encounter during the examination.

Farz Academy’s MRCP PACES Ethics and Communication Course:

The MRCP PACES examination is a challenging examination and requires a significant amount of preparation. Candidates should ensure that they are familiar with the examination format and the skills that are being assessed.

The MRCP PACES examination is a challenging but important step in the journey to becoming a Consultant Physician in the UK. It is an examination that tests a candidate’s clinical skills, knowledge and judgment to the highest level.

Farz Academy is excited to offer an MRCP PACES Ethics and Communication Course to help you prepare for your MRCP UK exam. This course is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to successfully complete the MRCP PACES exam.

Farz Academy’s MRCP PACES Ethics and Communication Course is an intensive practical course that focuses on improving both verbal and non-verbal communication skills over 2 days. Effective communication skills are vital to understanding your patient’s perspective of their illness and helping them understand their management.

Acquiring these skills will not only help pass the MRCP examination but will also be fundamental in practicing medicine on a day-to-day basis and improve your interactions with patients, colleagues, and allied health professionals. Good communication skills help to reduce conflict in the workplace, minimize the risk of complaints from patients and their families and make your work life simpler.

The team at MRCP Academy are made up of some of the leading consultants across a number of medical specialties who have experience in delivering high quality teaching in communication skills. Not everyone is naturally good at communicating effectively, but the team at MRCP academy will help guide and prepare you and give you tips and tricks to pass the communication stations in the MRCP PACES examination.

You will get real-time experience to practice MRCP scenarios with a surrogate patient and receive personalised feedback from an experienced tutor. You will work in small groups with a knowledgeable tutor. This can be a quite intimidating process, however, as you progress through the course, your confidence will improve as you learn from each other. It is quite amazing how quickly you can improve your technique over the course of a day.

The course is divided equally to cover station 2 (history taking) and station 4 (ethics and communication). Here are some of the topics that we shall be covering during the course for each of the stations:

MRCP PACES Communication Course : 25th September 2022 (Offline and Online)

Station 2

• Learn to structure the consultation
• Greeting / Introduction
• Build up a rapport
• Optimise your body language
• Stick to the time frame
• Actively listen
• Verbal and non-verbal cues
• Address patient’s concerns
• Hidden agenda
• Summarise

Station 4

• Patient autonomy
• Breaking bad news
• Dealing with an angry patient
• Dealing with a complaint
• Capacity assessment
• Confidentiality
• Duty of Candour and negligence
• Counselling and Genetic conditions
• Withholding/Withdrawing Life Prolonging Treatment
• Organ donation
• Advance directives
• Fitness to drive & DVLA guidelines