Duncan Scrimgeour, PhD candidate and Intercollegiate Research Fellow, has had his paper “The impact of performance in a mandatory postgraduate surgical examination on selection into specialty training” accepted for publication in the British Journal of Surgery (Open access). This study, the first of its kind for the mandatory postgraduate UK surgical exam, membership of the royal college of surgeons (MRCS), supports both MRCS validity and predictive validity and may have implications on how future surgical trainees are selected.
New Paper: The impact of performance in a mandatory postgraduate surgical examination on selection i