Remit, terms of reference, membership and meeting dates for the Examination and Assessment Committee (EAC)
Meeting dates (10:00 start)
2024
- Friday 6 December 2024
2025
- Friday 21 March 2025
- Friday 20 June 2025
- Friday 26 September 2025
- Friday 5 December 2025
Meetings
Four per year. Members are required to attend at least three meetings.
Remit
Reporting mechanism
The Examination and Assessment Committee reports to Education Board.
The following sub-committees report to the Examination and Assessment Committee:
- DRCOG Sub-committee
- Part 1 & 2 MRCOG Standard Setting committee
- Part 1 MRCOG Sub-committee
- Part 2 MRCOG EMQ Sub-committee
- Part 2 MRCOG SBA Sub-committee
- Part 3 MRCOG Clinical Assessment Sub-committee
Objectives
The Examination and Assessment Committee is a standing committee of the RCOG Council. The majority of the Committee's work relates to the MRCOG and DRCOG examinations, although there are other matters considered by the Committee.
- The Committee is responsible for establishing the content and recommending to the Education Board the format of College examinations.
- The Committee is responsible for setting, marking and reviewing questions and question papers.
- The Committee ensures the standard, validity and fairness of examinations and produces appropriate pass lists.
- The Committee oversees the function of the Examination Department, including communication with candidates, the logistics of preparing for examinations and communications with overseas centres.
- The Committee recommends to the Education Board suitable individuals to become DRCOG and MRCOG examiners and also suggests suitable Members and Fellows to be Members of the various Sub-Committees of the Examination and Assessment Committee.
- On a regular basis, advice and help is given to overseas examinations and, from time to time, recommendations are made with regard to suitable College representatives to be external examiners for these examinations.
- The Chair of the Examination and Assessment Committee and the Committee itself is, from time to time, responsible for providing advice to the President, Council and the Finance and General Purposes Committee on matters pertaining to examinations.
Membership
Secretary
Hiu To (Committee Secretary)
Email: ExamCommittees@RCOG.ORG.UK
Members
- Chair, selected by competitive interview, according to the approved role description
- 14 members selected according to the approved role description
Current Members:
- Dr Paul Mills – Chair
- Dr Ian Scudamore, Vice President, Education
- Dr Sanjay Kallat - Clinical QA Representative
- Dr Roxanna Mo – Chair, Part 1 Sub-Committee
- Mr Sanjay Rao – Chair, Part 2 MRCOG SBA Sub-Committee
- Dr Bidyut Kumar – Chair, Part 2 EMQ Sub-Committee
- Dr Dhiraj Uchil – Chair, Part 3 MRCOG Sub-Committee
- Dr Richard Slade - Vice Chair, Part 3 MRCOG Sub-Committee
- Dr Victoria Logan – Chair, DRCOG Sub-Committee
- Dr Nicholas Myerson – Chair, Part 1 & 2 Standard Setting Sub-Committee
- DrTonye Wokoma– Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH) Representative
- Dr Marina Flynn - Speciality Education Advisory Committee
- Dr Sherif Aly Abdel-Fattah - International Representative Committee
- Mr Andrew Thomas Leather - Part 3 MRCOG Clinical Assessment –Feedback Lead
- Dr Imogen Montague – Part 1 & 2 Clinical Assessment Feedback Lead
- Dr Lydia Akinola- Trainees’ Committee Representative
- Ms Emma Crookes - Women's Network Representative