Saturday 8th October 2022 - Gartnavel General Hospital
*Course Fully Booked*
​Please email if you would like added to the waiting list


Essential Info

Welcome to the Glasgow FRCOphth Prep Course - a mock examination course aimed to support ophthalmology trainees as they prepare to sit the FRCOphth Part 2 Oral Examination. We replicate the entire Part 2 Oral Examination (Viva + OSCE), including a communication skills station, across two sessions. As the college moves to a hybrid exam from November, we will aim to replicate this with the OSCE stations having a combination of patients and videos. There will be no change in the table vivas. As previously, a communication skills workshop and a session with previously successful candidates is also included.  ​

New this year: We plan to include a dinner for all candidates and examiners following the end of the course.
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OSCE Stations
  • Anterior segment
  • Glaucoma & Lid
  • Posterior segment
  • Strabismus & Orbit
  • Neuro-ophthalmology
  • Communication skills (will take place during the viva session, as in the real exam)

Viva Stations
  • Patient investigations and data interpretation
  • Patient management 1
  • Patient management 2
  • Attitudes, ethics and responsibilities
  • Audit, research and evidence based practice and Health promotion and disease prevention

There are limited candidate places available. The course fee is £250. 

To apply for a place, please email laurabutler1987@gmail.com 
​Please note we are now fully booked for this year. If you would like added to the waiting list, please get in touch. 

Communication Skills Workshop - Pene Herman-Smith BA

Candidates will also participate in a short workshop with Pene and colleagues, who will impart some helpful hints in approaching the communication skills station.

Medicine and Communication have dominated Pene’s career from an early age. Born to perform, acting success came at school and later in Community theatre. A secretarial course led to London in the 60’s, and a joyful job as P.A. to the Medical Editor of the innovative ‘Medical News’, supported by the ‘Practitioner’. A move to Scotland saw her working as Receptionist in a busy surgery, where she encountered both sides of the doctor/patient relationship. Her later B.A. Degree in Dramatic Studies led to a career of professional acting and eventually to the Wolfson Medical School (University of Glasgow). Here she worked closely with Professor Phillip Cotton, developing and presenting their new Communication Skills Training Programme from 2000 onwards. Using actors in roleplay situations has become big business, and in the medical field has brought vital knowledge and understanding of the importance of good communication in the healing process.

Where?

The course will take place on Saturday 8th October 2022 at...

Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology
First Floor
Main Building
Gartnavel General Hospital
1053 Great Western Road
Glasgow
G12 0YN

Further details on where to find us can be found here.

Course Organisers

Dr Vikas Chadha

Consultant Ophthalmologist
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Dr Laura Butler

Ophthalmology Specialist Registrar
laurabutler1987@gmail.com