MRCP Courses

MRCP is the Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. This internationally recognized medicalpostgraduate degree opens your door to a dream medical career as a physician in the UK.

MRCP is a three-level examination consisting of MRCP Part 1, MRCP Part 2 Written, and MRCP Part 2 Clinical(PACES).

Part 1 consists of two papers, each three hours long.Each paper contains 100 questions in a ‘best of five’format. The two papers are taken on the same day, at aspecified exam centre in the UK or abroad, doctors intraining are entitled to take the exam after they have been qualified for 12 months. MRCP Part 1 needs to becleared before appearing for Paper 2 and PACES.Part 2 consists of two, three-hour papers each with 100questions that test your ability to apply clinical understanding, and make clinical judgments.The MRCP Part 2 Clinical Examination (PracticalAssessment of Clinical Examination Skills – PACES) isdesigned to test the clinical knowledge and skills of trainee doctors who hope to enter higher specialisttraining.

To be eligible for MRCP Part 1 examination, candidates must have a GMC-recognized primary medical qualification and a minimum of 12 months post-graduate experience in the medical field.To be eligible for the Part 2 examination, you must clear Part 1 first

Applications for the MRCP part 1 exam open three months before each exam date, and as per the current exam timeline provided in the official website, exams are scheduled to be conducted in January, April, August and October 2023.And Part 2 exams are usually scheduled to be conducted in February, May, September and November.The clinical examination PACES are conducted 3 times in a year.

You are only permitted a maximum of six attempts eachat the MRCP exam, which is the medical entrance exam. You can thus show up for parts 1 and 2 six times each. However, you have seven years from finishing part 1 to pass part 2, as well as the PACES course.