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What is the MRCP(UK) Examination


The three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom share a common membership examination in general medicine: this is the examination for the Diploma of Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. Successful candidates are eligible to apply for the award of the MRCP(UK) Diploma. Read more about the place of the MRCP(UK) Examination in medical training, you can also read more about the history of the MRCP(UK) Examination.



What is the Specialty Certificate Examination

The Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK, in association with the Specialist Societies, has developed a programme to deliver Specialty Certificate Examinations within the new specialist training structure. The aim of these national assessments, which will complement workplace-based assessments, is to ensure that trainees have sufficient knowledge of their specialty to practice safely and competently as consultants.



The MRCP(UK) Examination provides information on candidates’ core medical knowledge, basic clinical problem solving skills and the management of common and important medical emergencies. The core medical knowledge and skills tested in the MRCP(UK) Examination provide the very basis that equips doctors to proceed to focus on individual specialties, secure in their grounding in other systems. In recognition that the rate of acquisition of core medical knowledge and practical clinical skills may differ the MRCP(UK) Management Board decided that the MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written and Part 2 Clinical (PACES) Examinations may, from 2009, be taken in any order. In addition, to ease the time pressures on trainees, the MRCP(UK) Part 1 Examination has been made available sooner and the "18 month rule" revised to allow examination entry once 12 months have elapsed after graduation.

The changes in respect to eligibility for and entry to the MRCP(UK) Examination will be applicable to UK and International candidates