We regret to announce that the 2021/1 PACES examinations in Egypt have been cancelled at the request of our local partners because of ongoing safety concerns due to the continued outbreak of COVID-19.
The following UK PACES results have now been released: Royal Bournemouth Hospital St Georges Hospital Walsall Manor Hospital Raigmore Hospital Kent and Canterbury Hospital City Hospital Birmingham (19-20 October exams) North Cambridgeshire Hospital Bishop Auckland General Hospital City Hospital Birmingham (RCPSG) Royal Berkshire Glasgow Royal Infirmary Grantham and District Hospital Pakistan Castle Hill Hospital Frimley Park Hospital Milton Keynes Hospital RCP North, Liverpool New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton Singapore - Changi General Hospital Singapore - National University Hospital Singapore - Singapore General Hospital Singapore - Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore - Sengkang General Hospital Singapore - Khoo Teck Puat Hospital St Thomas' Hospital Wansbeck General Hospital Ajman Malta For the latest PACES update click here.
The next European Specialty Examination in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ESEGH), is open for applications from candidates from around the world from today, 16 December 2020.
Part 1 and Part 2 The Part 2 backup exam ran successfully last week on 8 December.
We are very pleased to announce that agreement has been reached with the GMC and the Statutory Education Bodies for training to be undertaken from August 2022 in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) in association with the Group 1 physician specialties.
The following information is correct at the time of publishing.
Part 1 and Part 2 The results for the Part 1 backup exam and for the main Part 2 exam were released on Friday 27 November as planned.
Prioritisation Criteria A reminder that prioritisation criteria for UK PACES places in 2021/1 have now been published and are available on the website: We anticipate that the number of applications will exceed the available exam places but the College Exam teams are working hard to maximise the number of candidates we can assess in the first 6 months of 2021.
MRCP(UK) has updated the amended regulations for candidates sitting online examinations.
We are aware of a system issue that is causing an error message to be displayed during the payment process for the 2021/1 UK PACES diet which we are working hard to resolve.
Part 1 examinations The next diet of Part 1 will be on 12 January 2021.
Release of results Results have now been released for 7 examination centres and we anticipate that the results from a further 6 centres will be released next week.
The MRCP(UK) Part 2 examination results from the 2020/3 diet are being released today.
2020/3 UK Diet The 2020/3 diet of UK PACES is now complete.
Part 1 examinations Results for the contingency exam for the Part 1 exam which ran on 10 November will be released during the course of this week.