ABSTRACT
The clinical examination in the Part I MRCPsych examination used to require candidates to travel to various hospitals around the country and interview a real patient, then present the case to two examiners. To test their interview technique the candidate would also be asked to question the patient in front of the examiners. The examination involved a degree of unpredictability, but perhaps did reflect real life in this regard and it also tested the candidate’s ability to make sense of the whole of the patient’s history and mental state examination and present this to the examiners.
