Part 3 MRCOG Clinical Assessment

Professor Janice Rymer

MD FRCOG FRANZCOG FHEA
Vice President RCOG
Dean of Student Affairs
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
King’s College, London
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals
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UK 7 year structured training
program – Place of Part 3
What is the Part 3 MRCOG
Clinical Assessment?

• Assessment of candidates’ ability to apply core

clinical skills in the context of the skills, knowledge,
attitudes and competencies as defined in the Part 2
MRCOG curriculum.
Part 3 MRCOG

14 Tasks aligned to 14 Modules

Part 3 Task O&G Curriculum Module name
Number Module Number
1 2 Teaching
2 5 Core surgical skills
3 6 Post-operative care
4 8 Antenatal care
5 9 Maternal medicine
6 10 Management of labour
7 11 Management of delivery
8 12 Postpartum problems (the puerperium)
9 13 Gynaecological problems
10 14 Subfertility
11 15 Sexual and reproductive health
12 16 Early pregnancy care
13 17 Gynaecological oncology
14 18 Urogynaecology and pelvic floor problems
Part 3 MRCOG Domains

• Five core skill domains:

– Patient safety
– Communicating with patients and families
– Communicating with colleagues
– Information gathering
– Applied clinical knowledge

Each Task will assess a number of these domains.

Part 3 circuit structure

T1
T 14 T2

T 13 T3

T 12 T4

T 11 T5

T 10 T6

T9 T7
T8
Task Set up

• Cubicle for each task

• Use of trained actors/actresses
• Clinical examiner every task
• 4 tasks have a trained lay examiner
What is involved in a Part 3
‘task’?
A Part 3 MRCOG task could involve one of the
following:
• An interaction with a simulated patient (and/or
their family)
• An interaction with a simulated colleague
• A structured discussion around a particular case or
issue
What will examiners assess?

Clinical examiners
• Present on every task
• Up to 4 of the 5 domains (only one “communication”)
Lay examiners
• Will feature on 4 of the 14 tasks alongside Clinical
Examiners
• Assessing the domains of Communication, Patient
Safety and Information Gathering from the
perspective of the patient
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