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Part 1 & 2 MRCOG Standard Setting committee

Meeting dates (9:30 start)

2024

  • 11 January 2024
  • 27 June 2024

Remit

Reporting mechanism

The Part 1 & 2 MRCOG Standard Setting sub-committee reports to the Examination and Assessment Committee.

Objectives

To perform standard setting for the Part 1 MRCOG examination and Part 2 MRCOG examination which are held twice/three times a year.

Function

  • Scoring the written papers for the Part 1 and Part 2 MRCOG written papers as part of the Ebel’s and Angoff methods of standard setting.
  • Providing other question writing committees with information and training about the standard setting process
  • Reviewing the performance of examination questions and the analysis of results.
  • Undertaking other standard setting matters, as required by the Examination and Assessment Committee.
  • To provide the Examination and Assessment Committee with minutes of meetings.

Meetings

2-3 per year. Members are required to attend all meetings.

Membership

  • Chair, selected by competitive interview, according to the approved role description
  • 16 members selected according to the approved role description
  • Chair of the Examination and Assessment Committee, ex officio

Members

  • Dr Nicholas Myerson, Chair
  • Dr Claire Thompson
  • Dr Susan Ward
  • Dr Rajalakshmi Rajagopal
  • Dr Christina Kam Hung Yu
  • Dr Arumugam Jayanthi
  • Dr Makrina Savvidou
  • Mr Andrew Thomas Leather
  • Dr Kirsty Dundas
  • Dr Faye Rodger
  • Dr Mausumi Das
  • Dr Evelyn Ferguson
  • Dr Santhi Chidambaram
  • Dr Sherif Abdel-Fattah
  • Dr Abigail Brempah
  • Dr Georgia Smith