The completed Log book Summary, Log book Summary Report and Mentor Assessment Forms should be submitted by the supervisor concerned at 6-month interval for vetting by the Accreditation Committee of the HK Intercollegiate Board regularly in January and July every year. The respective training period could be recognized and registered on condition that satisfactory assessment must be achieved.

Individual trainee who has been warned of the deficiencies during the 3-month debriefing still performs unsatisfactory at the end of the 6-month period. The Accreditation Committee would interview this trainee as well as the surgeons for whom the trainee has worked in the unsatisfactory period. Below average assessment of performance in any six month period will constitute grounds for disqualify of that six month training period.

Trainees who fail to meet the above requirements would be required to undertake further training before being considered eligible to sit for the examination. On going in-training evaluation is required throughout the basic surgical training period. Any trainees who do not satisfy the standards set by or under training assessments consecutively twice or non-consecutively three times will be disqualified from the training programme.

There will be one clinical examination lasting 40 minutes with two examiners, during which candidates will see at least five cases. This examination will assess candidates’ ability to take an accurate history, elicit physical signs, produce differential diagnoses and briefly discuss investigation and treatment.


Candidates must achieve a minimum mark in the oral component in order to proceed to the clinical examination. Candidates who fail either the oral or clinical components only require resitting the failed part. There will be no refund or transfer of any part of the entrance fee for candidates who do not to proceed to the clinical component.

Candidates MUST PASS the final assessment within two years of their first attempt at the oral/clinical examination. Those who cannot do so would be advised to discontinue surgical training.

In the year 2004, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Hong Kong Intercollegiate Board of Surgical Colleges will conduct both the new Intercollegiate MRCS MCQ Examinations in conjunction with the current MRCSEd MCQ Examination. For eligibility enter the examinations, please refer to the Intercollegiate MRCS Announcement on website - www.rcsed.ac.uk.