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aami · Credits: 1122 My Scrapbook

This is copy - pasted from the MRCS webpage. link is:-

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End Date of the present MRCS

The current Intercollegiate MRCS examination is aimed at trainees who are undertaking Basic Surgical Training, with the structure and syllabus derived from the curriculum of training for Basic Surgical Trainees in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland . With the introduction of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) project in the UK, the grade of Basic Surgical Trainee will cease to exist in the UK and trainees will commence, instead, a programme of Specialty Training. In these circumstances, the current Intercollegiate MRCS examination, as governed by the current Regulations, will cease to be applicable within the UK; it is therefore intended to phase out this examination within the UK.
The MRCS is being re-structured to make it appropriate for the new training pattern being brought in with Modernising Medical Careers from August 2007. Full details will follow shortly.
It is hereby announced that candidates will have until and including the diet to be held in April 2007 in which to make their FIRST attempt at Part 2 of the examination in the UK. After this diet, the candidates will have until and including the oral/clinical diet to be held in October/November 2010 to pass successfully all parts of the examination within the three-and-a-half year period specified in the Regulations.
Any candidate who has taken the Part 2 examination for the first time in April 2007 and who has not passed all three parts of the examination by the conclusion of the oral/clinical diet to be held in October/November 2010 will have no further opportunity to sit the examination in the UK and will be time-expired. There may be exceptional circumstances in which a longer period may be allowed, but these circumstances will be evaluated on an individual basis after submission of appropriate evidence by the candidate in question.

Mr David Ward
Chairman of Intercollegiate Committee of Basic Surgical Examinations

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

The above copy-paste from MRCS website says nothing about a Job nor does it mention anything about IMG's.

MRCS eligibility doesn't require one to be employed...
Also MRCS is still conducted in India... One can obtain complete Membership without ever stepping into UK

I see no reason to believe that there will no more MRCS for IMG's who don't have a UK job.

aami · Credits: 1122 My Scrapbook

SORRY FOR THE MISUNDERSTANDING!!!!!!!

I MEANT FOR THOSE PEOPLE ALREADY IN THE UK. PASSED PLAB 2. BUT HAVENT GOT A JOB YET. WILL THERE BE ANY CHANGE IN THE SITUATION IF WE WANT TO DO THE MRCS ?

I AGREE WITH MUNISH THAT MRCS WILL EXIST. AND HOPEFULLY BE POSSIBLE TO SIT OUTSIDE uk
BUT THERE WILL BE CHANGES AS THEY HAVE WRITTEN. THE CONCERN IS HOW THAT WILL EFFECT US ALL?????????????????????

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

There are no changes in the MRCS yet.
Later...
By Apr 2007
There will be two groups of people
1. those who have attempted part 2 by then and
2. those who haven't.

Those in group 1 will be given until 2010 to complete the MRCS
Those in group 2 will have take the 'new' MRCS

If you wish to apply for MRCS part 1 or part 2 now... you may very well do so and should have no problems whatsoever.

If you plan to take the MRCS later then wait till they announce the changes in the 'new' MRCS .

Hope this helps.

hauntedscientist · Credits: 2512 My Scrapbook

rightly said!

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