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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Carling [mailto:Robert.Carling@mrcpuk.org]
Sent: 12 November 2008 16:08
Subject: New Name for KBAs - Specialty Certificate Examinations
The ‘KBA’ team has
been working closely with medical Specialist Societies on examinations aimed
at Physicians in
specialist training*.
Up until now these
examinations have been known by the shorthand ‘Knowledge Based Assessments’
or ‘KBAs’; however, these should now be called ‘Specialty Certificate
Examinations’ or ‘SCEs’. Successful candidates will be awarded a Certificate
in [Specialty].
The use of the phrase
‘Knowledge Based Assessment’ is in fact simply another way of saying an
‘examination’. (As the JRCPTB website shows, the MRCP(UK) examinations and
the Specialist Examinations are both referred to as ‘Knowledge Based
Assessments’.)
All of the
participating Specialty Question Writers and the Specialist Societies
collaborating with the Federation, together with the relevant people in
JRCPTB, the SAC chairs and committee members, etc., are being informed of
this and various documents, such as the Regulations, are being changed to
use ‘Specialty Certificate Examinations’.
More information on
the examinations themselves can be found here:
http://www.mrcpuk.org/KBA/Pages/Home.aspx
(these pages will be
updated with the SCE name shortly)
For any specific
queries please contact:
Julia Gamaleldeen
x596
*The following
specialties are involved in the SCEs: Acute Medicine; Clinical Pharmacology
and Therapeutics; Dermatology; Endocrinology and Diabetes;
Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Medical Oncology;
Nephrology (Renal Medicine); Neurology; Respiratory Medicine and
Rheumatology. All UK and overseas trainees who have obtained MRCP(UK) are
eligible to take the Specialty Certificate Examination. UK trainees who are
in a higher specialist training post but do not hold the MRCP(UK) are also
eligible. Whether a trainee has to take their Specialty Certificate depends
on when they started their training not when they complete it. An SCE is a
compulsory part of the August 2007 curriculum so any trainees following this
curriculum must take the Specialty Certificate. Trainees following the
pre-August 2007 curriculum may take the exam but do not have to.
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