Course Review Template
General information
Course title
Course category
Final FRCR Part B Revision Course,
St Bartholomew’s Hospital
FRCR 2B Revision Course
(i.e. FRCR 2B/
workshop/subspecialty/general/managerial)
Location/venue
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Organiser
Julie Jessop
Imaging Room 3, KGV Wing St Bartholomew's Hospital
West
Smithfield London EC1A 7BE T
el: 44 (0)20 346 55314
email:
j.k.jessop@qmul.ac.uk
Unfortunately no website for the course! You need to email the
secretary (who I think may be retiring soon) or the consultant lead for
the course was Dr. Stephen Ellis
(Stephen.ellis@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk).
£400 (September 2013 price)
Includes 2 day course and coffee/tea. Lunch not included.
Price
Course emphasis/aim
Opinion
Types of teaching
activities
i.e. hands-on workshop/ case review/
imaging viewing sessions/ lecture/
tutorial/quiz
Quality of teaching
Quality of venue
Overall impression
Rating
2B revision
Over the 2 days you get 3x LC, 3 x RR exams – all timed and two of
the three papers are marked for you by the course supervisor so this
was really good. For the last set, we ran out of time for the course
faculty to mark it before the ‘final review’ session. You also get to do
6 viva practices (of 10 minutes per person) with 6 different
consultants.
You are put in small groups comprising of 3 candidates and each
member of the group gets a 5-10 minute viva by the consultant
leading the viva session before you swap turns in between you all. So
you take turns to be viva-ed and to watch your colleagues being vivaed.
Good vivas.
At the time of doing the course, I found the long cases were really
hard and quite tricky, but when I did the 2b exams for real – I
thought this was probably about the right difficult level.
The RR packs were of reasonable difficulty level.
All LC and RR are on Osirix.
Average – the venue was newly built, clean, modern but the
computer room where you do the LC and RR are on the opposite side
of the hospital wing to where the vivas are taking place so a bit of a
hassle to travel between the two!
Worth going to, but just be aware of the timing and where you need
to be. The course is spread over two venues within the same
hospital, so it is easy to get a bit lost and forget which area you are
meant to be at and where! Some candidates ended up arriving at
their viva/RR/LC practice late as they didn’t even realise the rest of
the group had started!
3.5 stars
(from 1 to 5 stars)