Psychiatric Bulletin (2009) 33: 149-153. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.108.021527
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Education and Training

Goodbye OSCE, hello CASC: a mock CASC course and examination{dagger}

Paul Whelan, Specialist Registrar in Old Age Psychiatry

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, North Southwark CMHT, 1 Ann Moss Way, London SE16 2TS, email: paul.whelan{at}nhs.net

Geoffrey Lawrence-Smith, Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Laurence Church, Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Claire Woolcock, Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Maja Meerten, Specialty Trainee in Psychiatry

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Ranga Rao, Consultant Psychiatrist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Declaration of interest

P.W., G.L-S, L.C., C.W. and R.R. are or recently have been organisers of the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' MRCPsych course, and teach on various MRCPsych examination preparation courses. R.R. is the editor of the College Seminar Series OSCE book and is preparing a CASC book for the same series. The mock examination course was funded by an educational grant by Eli Lilly.

{dagger} See education & training, pp. 145–148, this issue.

Abstract

The Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) is the latest change to the MRCPsych examination. The CASC is a complex version of an Observed Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) format, with paired stations, and is now the only clinical component in the MRCPsych examination. We describe how to organise a relatively inexpensive and workforce-light 1-day course and mock CASC examination by adapting a previously described method for running an OSCE workshop. We also evaluate the acceptability to trainees of a mock CASC examination and course, and describe their views on this new clinical examination format.


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