Stage 3 pre-reg survival guide: Final assessment

Final assessment

Upon satisfactory completion of the stage two assessment you will receive details of the date and location of the next final assessment sitting. In recent times this has been at the Royal College of General Practitioners next to Euston station in London. Sittings tend to be in July, September, January and March and assessment circuits last around a couple of hours.

The format of the assessment is a series of OSCE stations – objective structured clinical examinations should present less of a challenge to you than many of your predecessors as most undergraduate course now offer good experience of this form of assessment. In essence, this exam is a sampling of individual competencies from across the whole range of 82 and is a final safety net to ensure that those getting through stages one and two have not done so through less than acceptable means.