The Newcastle Course is designed to assist candidates in preparation for the CASC paper of the MRCPsych exam. This intensive course has been developed with the aim of providing candidates with a mock exam experience as well as exposure to 32 different single and paired stations. The second day of the course is designed specifically to assist trainees who have had difficulty with passing previous examinations. We use extensive individualised feedback using DVD recording of the candidate's performance on the course.

The next course will take place on the 3rd and 4th of December 2011. This is to enable adequate preparation time for candidates appearing in the exam in January 2012.

The course is run in a purpose built exam centre, uses professional actors and experienced assessors. We focus on providing high quality feedback to candidates from a variety of sources including college examiners. We aim to continuously update and improve the course taking into account the comments and the suggestions of the attendees.

On the second day we aim to provide intensive feedback and personalised coaching in small groups. The enrolment for this day is limited in numbers to maintain the low numbers of candidates per tutor. We will aim to provide coaching to candidates to help improve their communication skills. This will be especially useful if you have had difficulty in passing the exam in past attempts. We received very positive feedback from the last course on our personalised coaching to the trainees.