• Primary Medical Qualification “Bachelor of Medicine”.
• Approvals on one year Internship.

• Paper 1:Applied Basic Sciences MCQ paper
• Paper 2:Principles of Surgery-in-General MCQ paper

• The Oral Component:The oral is the first component of Part B of the MRCS.
  • Session 1:Applied surgical anatomy & operative surgery
  • Session 2:Applied physiology & critical care
  • Session 3:Applied surgical pathology & principles of surgery
• The Clinical Component:The clinical is the second component of Part B of the MRCS.
  Candidates must have passed Part A and the oral component before sitting the clinical component.
  The bays will require candidates to be able to Diagnose, Elicit physical signs from and be familiar with the treatment of patients with conditions in the following areas: Trauma and Orthopedics; Vascular; Endocrine, Breast, Skin, Head and Neck; and Trunk and Groin.
• The Communication Skills Component:Communication Skills is the third component of Part B of the MRCS.
  • 1st bay: will assess the giving of information
  • 2nd bay : will assess taking and presenting a history.
  Candidates will be required to demonstrate the ability to provide information to, and receive information from, patients, their relatives and other healthcare professionals.

• 4 hr MCQ examination consisting of 2 papers, each of 2 hrs’ duration, taken on the same day.
• The marks for both papers are combined to give a total mark for Part A.

Consists of three components:

• The ORAL:
  The oral component is a knowledge-based part comprising 3 individual question and answer sessions, each lasting 20 minutes.
  Candidates will be awarded a mark in each part of the oral and a pass or fail overall in the oral component.
  Candidates must pass the oral component in order to proceed to the clinical and communication skills components.
• The CLINICAL:
  The clinical short cases will be organized into 4 /15min bays.
  There are two examiners in each bay and candidates will be awarded a mark by each examiner; all bays are equally weighted.
  Candidates who fail the clinical component will not be required to re-sit the oral component or Part A; they will only be required to re-sit the clinical component.
• The Communication skills:
  assessed in 2 bays.
  There are 2 examiners in each bay. In the Information Giving bay each examiner will award one mark.
  In the Information Gathering bay each examiner will award two marks, one mark for the history taking and one for the presentation of the history.
  
  Candidates who fail the communication skills component but have passed the clinical component will only be required to re-sit the communication skills component.