Written examinations

Admission Documents and Results Letters  

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health are pleased to announce that Admission documents and Results letters for written exams will now be sent to all candidates by email.  Please note that hard copies will now no longer be sent. 

From 2013 the Part 1A and Part 1B examinations will undergo minor changes with new supporting syllabi.

• Part 1A will become the Foundation of Practice examination. Its format and content will be unchanged and a syllabus is now available to support candidates sitting this examination.
• Part 1B will be redesignated as the Theory and Science examination. The emphasis of the examination will be to test the basic scientific, physiological and pharmacological principles upon which clinical practice is based. The format of the examination will remain unchanged. The supporting syllabus is now available.
• From May 2013 the Part 2 examination will become the Applied Knowledge in Practice (clinical decisions and management) examination. The syllabus will be unchanged but will be streamlined and codified into a single document for transparency, this will be published in late 2012. The format of the examination will not change. 

Further details regarding what these changes are, the new syllabi and other information about the content of the examinations can be found here. 

Find out about how to apply for all written examinations here.