MRCPCH Clinical Courses Reviews 76

The course was an eye-opener about a variety of physical signs one may not have personally encountered before. The role players in the stations especially communication, gave a realistic performance too.
The food was also good.

It was really good course . Well organised . Learn a lot .

The course was great for building up confidence before the exam with a large variety of patients and scenarios that covered most of the aspects of the MRCPCH clinical exam.

Amazing course, amazing faculty. Well thought of and well organized. Gained exposure of various paediatric cases/pathologies and how to approach for all of these. Faculty enthusiastic and keen on teaching us and ensuring we do learn and remember. Overall, the course ensures we turn into better clinicians and paediatricians and not just exam prepared.

I recently attended this course and found it extremely valuable. We had the opportunity to examine real patients and practise clinical examinations in a very structured and supportive environment.

One of the best parts of the course was being able to see several rare and less commonly encountered clinical findings, which was a great learning experience. The teaching throughout was excellent - every tutor was well prepared, approachable, and genuinely invested in helping us improve our examination and presentation skills.

The tutors shared many practical tips on how to identify clinical findings, structure observations, and build differential diagnoses effectively during exams. A special mention to Dr. Mithuna Urs - truly an exceptional teacher. I especially appreciate the way he explained how to connect clinical findings and observations logically into differential diagnoses.

Overall, it was a very enriching experience and I would highly recommend the course to anyone preparing for the MRCPCH clinical exam.

Fantastic course! Very intense and covers a lot of the important topics and cases for MRCPCH Clinicals! Very experienced faculty and a variety of cases are there to be examined and discussed! Very grateful to have had the opportunity to attend!

Excellent course to prepare for clinical MRCPCH. It was inclusive of all the stations with variety of real cases.
Offered appropriate feedback for the candidates.
I would recommend this course to anyone want to take MRCPCH.

Worth doing this course. They have worked hard to find a range of patients with signs that I have never seen before. Course is relatively casual in terms of timings and allowing everybody to see the sign/listen to the murmur. Patients and their families were absolutely amazing, really patient with us and keen to help us learn.
I think that that overall the course feels quite chaotic, lots of racing to fit in patients and rushing to the next room. The focus was more to pack in lots of patients and teach signs rather than exam technique. I think that it would have been useful to have at least one station where you could do as a mock and got feedback.
Overall would recommend the course!

Extremely good no of interesting cases. Tutors guided about stations very well and gave very useful tips to perform in exam. Feedback from tutors was very useful and it will help in design prep for exam

Excellent teaching with a wide variety of clinical cases enhanced my learning significantly . The only thing I would like to add on is please consider an online course as well as that would be very beneficial for overseas candidates particularly . That would help them in understanding expected standards to pass clinical exam and how they should be planning their exam prep.
Most of the overseas candidates spend thousands of pounds in attending non beneficial online courses which exaggerate diuficulty level of exam and make candidates anxious .
Lastly, thank you for the Pakistani food offered in lunch time.

This is a very good. So much Practice and they show us alot of patients with finding and they guide us also how to approach different cases.

It was an insightful experience with many of the cases which I have only read in books seen in person. Will recommend the course over and over again.

Wide variety of clinical cases . Comprehensive course for clinical exam preparation.

Very good course with great cases for preparation for MRCPCH

Excellent teachers
Real patients with significant findings

This was a very intense course with 2 days jam packed full of cases. We saw a variety of interesting clinical signs, and had the opportunity to practise a whole range of examinations, communication scenarios, histories and development stations. I had been recommended the course by colleagues who have since passed their exam following attending this course and I will be recommending this course to others in the future. It was a very tiring couple of days but definitely worth the trip.

I had heard great things about the course from people who had attended previously so wanted to attend. The faculty helpfully provided the programme way in advance along with a list of things to read up on prior to attending.

The course is packed with cases where you see a variety of clinical cases but also have the chance to do roleplays for the history-taking, communication and developmental station roles. Due to packing in so many cases, the day was intense and I was exhausted afterwards. The timing for stations were shortened. This did actually help for exam preparation to ensure you were moving through things quickly. For these reasons, I would recommend the course. The lunch was lovely but quite dense and it would have been nice to have a lighter option.

However, it would be amiss for me not to mention a few things that I feel would be important for the course to improve. Some of the facilitators seemed to be particularly off-hand. These particular facilitators and their manner were not conducive to a safe learning environment. I observed eye rolling whilst candidates were doing stations (at least this was behind their back because it would have been off-putting), facilitators looking at their phones whilst they were supposed to be watching candidates performing examinations, poor and sometimes rude phrasing of feedback or difficulty providing balanced feedback. To pay nearly £700 to be spoken in this manner and be made to feel as if you're a bother is not very kind or considerate when candidates are under high stress.

The moving around of all the candidates to each room seemed unnecessarily hectic. It would have made more sense for the facilitators and the patients/parents to move around (however, I appreciate that certain patients may have not been able to do this due to their mobility). There was no chance for toilet breaks which meant you had to make a choice of missing something potentially crucial to attend to your needs which wasn't very considerate.

However, I would highly recommend this course to people. I know if I had sat in a month's worth of clinic, I probably would not have seen such relevant clinical cases nor been taught important clinical skills to make my chance of passing better.

Excellent course

Very useful course providing opportunity to practise examination with lots of paediatric patients with signs, history taking, communication and development stations over two days.