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SS · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

i appeared in sept 2006 in mrcog2 but couldnt pass. now i want a complete guidance. can anybody help me please?
i want to attend the course of teale fenning,, do i need to attend the 'essay technique course' or 'essay practise' and what about EMQ and MCQs courses. can anybody please guide me?. what is the pass rate for this course?

Jullien Brady · Teale Fenning Administrator Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 39

Dear SS,

Please do not despair. The MRCOG is a hard exam, but I am sure we will be able to help. You may well have had a break down of your marks. If so were there any areas of weakness?

You will see for our website that we offer comprehensive courses to cover all bits of the exam. My best advice is to address the areas of weakness, that for most candidates is the written exam. Our essay writing technique and practice essay courses are specifically designed for this.

It is also essential that you have a comprehensive set of (correct) answers to the MCQ Past Paper book that you understand. Our Past Paper Course covers the whole book and provides evidence-based answers to each and every question. This ensures that you are learning about the subject areas rather than just having a true / false answer. 60% or more are new questions which you wil not be able to answer unless you have read around the topics and this is what we do on the Past Paper and O&G in 48 Hours Courses.

Finally, the new EMQs seemed to be very difficult. Our new EMQ Course seems to be pretty exam comparable from the feedback we have had and the next one will be based on and cover the questions that have just come up (or as close to these as we can get from what we have been told).

If you have the time the new ABC in O&G Course is a weeks course in which we cover EMQs, MCQs, and the Past Paper book all supported by a detailed coursebook.

I know this seems like a lot of courses and it is. However, we feel each course offers something different and something important or we would not run them.

I hope this helps.
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Jullien Brady B.Sc. MB.BS. MRCOG.
Teale Fenning Administrator

Nick Raine-Fenning · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hi SS

You can also look at the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on our main site.
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mei_lin · Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Kuala Lumpur

Dear SS,
I know how you feel. I also failed the written in March but fortunately got thru in Sept (still the OSCE to go though). The Teale Fenning team helped me loads and I think that if there is one course you would choose to go to it would be the essay technique course.

However, you still need to practice, practice, practice loads of essays, MCQs and the dreaded EMQs. The thing that really helped me the most this time is my study group. 3 of us got together and discussed the questions (Past Papers etc). It helps cos that means 3 brains are working instead of 1; also, when you are tired or lazy, the other 2 will push you along.

All the best for your preparation. hope my 2 cents helped...
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Mei Lin HOO
Malaysia

SS · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

thanks alot
what i think is that i have no uk experience thats y i failed in exam, i dont know how to start and do the essay questions. i basically need a partener.which still im unable to get to read with. if anybody wants to study for mrcog, please contact with me. im living in hitchin, hertfordshire
thanks
ss

mei_lin · Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Kuala Lumpur

Would it make you feel better if I told you that I have NEVER worked in the UK? My whole study group was based in Malaysia and my UK experience was with Teale Fenning.
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Mei Lin HOO
Malaysia

SS · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

oh really,
that can make me feel a bit relaxed.
can you please let me know about the list of books and journels and other things which i have to study.

Nick Raine-Fenning · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

SS · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

i dont know how to use ur 'study buddy scheme' can you please guide me.
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ss

Nick Raine-Fenning · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject:

Just post there asking if anyone wants to team up with you and write some essays and make up a few EMQs and MCQs.

I am sure there are people doing this and as Mei Lin says 'two heads are better than one'.

The way I see it is that if you write an essay on placenta praevia and a colleague writes one on placental abruption then you have gained two essays for doing the work for just one.

When you revise for placenta praevia you can also write MCQs from whichever guideline or reference source you use. You can test your colleague on these and she / he can test you on the ones they do for abruption.

If you do a series of topics that have a similar background (i.e. bleeding in pregnancy, abdo pain in pregnancy etc) you can eventually make up an EMQ as well!!

If I was after a partner or 'study buddy' I think I would try and write a few essays or MCQs etc (see what we have done in the other Forums) and post them here. That way people can see you are keen. One would imagine the better your questions and the more questios you write the more partners / buddies you will get!

Essentially the Forum aims to do thsi anyway but on a large scale. Some people will prefer to work in smaller groups.

Whatever you do please post the results here and I will try and make some helpful comments as will all the Teale Fenning team Smile