2010: Exam dates
Paper 1 & 2:
17 August 2010
16 November 2010
Paper 3:
12 January
15 June
CASC
21-24 September

 

COURSES for 2010 Exams

All courses now 'LIVE'  To avoid disappointment please do not delay.

Please  e mail Sarah for Application forms

sarah.devereux@cpft.nhs.uk

Statistics & Research Methods

Saturday 15 &  Sunday 16 May 2010 - details below
Cost: £300 (£240 for internal candidates)

See below

 

Papers 3 MCQs

Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 2010

Cost  £300 (£240 for internal candidates)

 

Programme

Saturday 22 May 2010

0900-0915: Registration

0915-1020:Forensic: Sam Dove

1020-1030: Coffee

1030-1130:Substance Misuse: S. Shivashankar

1130-1235: Child & Adolescent: Paul Wilkinson

1235-1330: Lunch

1330-1440: Liaison Joanna Woodger

1440-1450: Tea

1450 1600: Neuropsychiatry: Ben Underwood

    Sunday 23 May 2010

0900-0915: Registration

0915-1020: Psychotherapy & PD: Furhan Iqbal

1020-1030: Coffee

1030-1130: Pharmacology: Kostas Stagias

1130-1235: General Adult: Kostas Stagias

1235-1330: Lunch

1330-1440: Old Age: Robert Dudas

1440-1450: Tea

1450-1600: Learning Disabilities: Regi Alexander      

Paper 1

Saturday 17 July 2010

Cost:  £150  (£120 internal candidates)

 

Paper 2

Sunday 18 July 2010

Cost: £150  (£120 Internal candidates)

CASC

Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September 2010

Cost: £700 (£600 for internal candidates)

 

 

Statistics & Research Methods Course

Saturday 15& Sunday 16 May 2010

Dr. Paul Wilkinson, University Lecturer and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the University of Cambridge, will deliver this weekend course. He contributes Statistics and Research Methodology questions for the MRCPsych Paper 3. He has been running a crash course for the MRCPsych Critical Appraisal exams since 2003.  By popular request, he has extended this course from one day to two days, to allow more time for direct teaching of new concepts, more discussion and for more MCQ and EMQ practice

This course will thoroughly prepare candidates for the statistics and research methodology components of the MRCPsych Paper 3.  The course will teach General Research Methodology and all specific research types e.g. RCTs, health economics, aetiology, qualitative research etc.  After each mini topic there will be MCQ/ EMQ practice and discussion.  The course will cover all statistical tests that are likely to come up in the exam, e.g. Mann-Whitney, multiple regression, and discuss how to interpret them and answer questions on them.  The statistics will be scattered through the day, presented together with the relevant study design, to keep it in small doses!  Teaching will include essential calculations e.g. NNT, sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratio.  Candidates will have plenty of opportunities to practice them.  The course will conclude with MCQs and EMIQs that test knowledge across study designs e.g. Which is the best statistical test to use in a specific situation?  What type of bias would occur in this situation?  Which is the most appropriate study design?

 

We will discuss more than 250 MCQs and EMIQs from recent exams and questions written by the Cambridge team.  Full paper handouts will be given of questions; answers and explanations; and slides used to teach theoretical material.  Questions will be e-mailed to candidates before the course, so they can try them in advance if they so wish (as requested by candidates from the last course).

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

Saturday  15 May 2010

10:00 – 10:30   Registration

10:30 – 5:00 pm

General research methodology

  Presentation of results and distributions

  Sample selection

  Statistical significance and confidence intervals

  Power

  Problems of statistical tests

  Measurement, reliability and validity

Treatment studies

  Types of treatment studies

  Sample recruitment

  Treatment allocation

  Carrying out treatment

  Measuring outcome

  Statistics of comparing two (or more) groups

  Number needed to treat

  Survival analysis

  Dealing with drop-outs (from treatment or analysis)

  Special types of treatment studies

  Economic analysis

                                   

Sunday 16 May 2010

9:30 – 4:00pm

Aetiology studies

  Types of study – cohort vs. case-control

  Relative risk and odds ratio

  Appraisal of studies

  Adjusting for confounding

  Correlational statistics

  Multiple regression

  Ecological studies

Screening studies

  Sensitivity and specificity

  Positive and negative predictive value

  Likelihood ratios

  ROC curves

Combining studies and meta-analysis

  Forest plots

Diagnosis studies

Prognosis studies

Epidemiology studies

  Prevalence and incidence

  Standardised mortality ratio

Qualitative studies

MCQs and EMQs

Suggestions for further studying

 

 

Advance Questions for Cambridge S&RM Course

We are happy to send a selection of some of the questions we shall be covering in the Cambridge course in advance for candidates to practice and think about.  However, receiving these questions constitutes attendance at the course and we shall only send them once you have paid for the course.  If for whatever reason you have to cancel attendance at the course, no refund will be available if you have received the questions.

 

There is no obligation to receive or try these questions before the course.  The course assumes very little baseline knowledge and will assume you have not looked at these questions.  We are offering sending them because some people find that doing questions in advance helps their subsequent learning.  A full set of questions and answers will be given at the course to all candidates.

 

If you would like to receive the questions, please contact Sarah Devereux, Sarah.Devereux@cpft.nhs.uk, before 4th May 2010.

 

 

 

CONTACT

Sarah Devereux
Administrator

Cambridge MRCPsych Course

Block 14
Ida Darwin Hospital
Fulbourn
Cambridge
CB21 5EE
Sarah.Devereux@cpft.nhs.uk
01223 884 208 (Tuesdays & Thursdays)

 

 

 

 

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