Examination and Assessment Committee

Meetings

The Examination and Assessment Committee (EAC) meets four times per year. Members are required to attend a minimum of three meetings annually.

2025 meetings

• Friday, 21 March 2025
• Friday, 20 June 2025
• Friday, 26 September 2025
• Friday, 5 December 2025

Reporting mechanism

The Examination and Assessment Committee reports to Education Board.

The following sub-committees report to the Examination and Assessment Committee:

Objectives

The Examination and Assessment Committee is a standing committee of the RCOG Council. The majority of the Committee's work relates to the MRCOG and DRCOG examinations, although there are other matters considered by the Committee.

• The Committee is responsible for establishing the content and recommending to the Education Board the format of College examinations.
• The Committee is responsible for setting, marking and reviewing questions and question papers.
• The Committee ensures the standard, validity and fairness of examinations and produces appropriate pass lists.
• The Committee oversees the function of the Examination Department, including communication with candidates, the logistics of preparing for examinations and communications with overseas centres.
• The Committee recommends to the Education Board suitable individuals to become DRCOG and MRCOG examiners and also suggests suitable Members and Fellows to be Members of the various Sub-Committees of the Examination and Assessment Committee.
• On a regular basis, advice and help is given to overseas examinations and, from time to time, recommendations are made with regard to suitable College representatives to be external examiners for these examinations.
• The Chair of the Examination and Assessment Committee and the Committee itself is, from time to time, responsible for providing advice to the President, Council and the Finance and General Purposes Committee on matters pertaining to examinations.

Members

• Chair, selected by competitive interview, according to the approved role description
• 14 members selected according to the approved role description

Current Members:

• Dr Paul Mills – Chair
• Dr Ian Scudamore, Vice President, Education
• Dr Sanjay Kallat -  Clinical QA Representative
• Dr Roxanna Mo – Chair, Part 1 Sub-Committee
• Mr Sanjay Rao – Chair, Part 2 MRCOG SBA Sub-Committee
• Dr Bidyut Kumar – Chair, Part 2 EMQ Sub-Committee
• Dr Dhiraj Uchil – Chair, Part 3 MRCOG Sub-Committee
• Dr Richard Slade - Vice Chair, Part 3 MRCOG Sub-Committee
• Dr Victoria Logan – Chair, DRCOG Sub-Committee
• Dr Nicholas Myerson – Chair, Part 1 & 2 Standard Setting Sub-Committee
• DrTonye Wokoma– Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH) Representative
• Dr Marina Flynn - Speciality Education Advisory Committee 
• Dr Sherif Aly Abdel-Fattah - International Representative Committee
• Mr Andrew Thomas Leather - Part 3 MRCOG Clinical Assessment –Feedback Lead
• Dr Imogen Montague – Part 1 & 2 Clinical Assessment Feedback Lead
• Dr Lydia Akinola- Trainees’ Committee Representative
• Ms Emma Crookes - Women's Network Representative