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JSCFE News Update – 12 July 2023

IMPORTANT: Section 2 examination fee

The four Surgical Royal Colleges have approved the Section 2 examination fee of £1965 applicable to 2024 examinations.There is no change to the Section 1 examination fee of £520.

JSCFE News Update – 1 June 2022

IMPORTANT: Update on JSCFE Section 1 and Section 2 examinations 2022

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity including the restart of Section 1 examinations in 2023.

JSCFE News Update – 30 November 2021

IMPORTANT: Update on JSCFE Section 1 and Section 2 examinations 2022

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity in response to the ongoing challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JSCFE News Update – 16 August 2021

IMPORTANT: Update on JSCFE Section 1 and Section 2 examinations 2021

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity in response to the ongoing challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JSCFE News Update – 25 May 2021

IMPORTANT: Update on JSCFE Section 1 and Section 2 examinations 2021

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity in response to the ongoing challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JSCFE News Update – 11 January 2021

IMPORTANT: Update on JSCFE Section 1 and Section 2 examinations 2021

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity in response to the ongoing challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JSCFE News Update – 6 August 2020

Please note that the JCIE will resume collection of JSCFE fees at the time of application from Thursday 6 August 2020. Those who made an application during the period of examination postponement will shortly receive an email with a request to pay the examination fee.
Thank you.

JSCFE News Update – 9 July 2020

IMPORTANT: Update on postponement of examinations

The JCIE Chair has issued a statement to provide an update on examination activity in response to the ongoing challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see the statement. You may wish to keep up to date on activities during the period by visiting the information held on the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh website, News.

You can still make an application to sit an examination but during this period of postponement we will not take payment of the examination fee. When the end of the period is reached we will contact you to request payment.

We will keep you updated with information when we are able to do so.
Thank you.

JSCFE News Update – 16 March 2020

IMPORTANT: Postponement of examinations

The Presidents of the four surgical Royal Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland have issued a Joint Policy Statement in response to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy comes in to force with effect from Monday 16 March 2020. Please see the Policy Statement. You may wish to keep up to date on activities during the period by visiting the information held on the Royal College of Surgeons website, Coronavirus/COVID-19: Update.

All Section 1 and Section 2 examinations due to be held from today until the end of summer have been postponed. You can still make an application to sit an examination but during this period of postponement we will not take payment of the examination fee. When the end of the period is reached we will contact you to request payment.

We will keep you updated with information when we are able to do so.
Thank you.

JSCFE News Update – January 2020

Format of Section 1 examination

The GMC has approved an alteration to the format of the Section 1 examination.

The following format is applicable to all Section 1 examinations from January 2021:

Paper 1 - 120 Single Best [SBA] (2 hours 15 mins)

Paper 2 - 120 Single Best [SBA] (2 hours 15 mins)

JSCFE News Update – August 2019

The Joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examination in Otolaryngology opened for applications on 1 August 2019.

JSCFE News Update – May 2017

  1. Examination Attempts

The four Surgical Royal Colleges wish to clarify that the number of attempts permissible in the examination is four, across both the JSCFE and Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations(JCIE), as follows:

    • Section 1 – four attempts with no re-entry
    • Section 2 – four attempts with no re-entry

A formal verification process will be applied to both examination application systems from 1 January 2018 onwards.