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ENDGAMES:
Painful joints and osteoarthritis
BMJ 2009; 338: b1579 [Full text]
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[Read Rapid Response] Endgames not linked to MRCGP revision website
Chris Elfes, Chris Elfes, Carol Blow   (7 May 2009)
[Read Rapid Response] Wording for the Onexamination quiz
Amy Davis   (9 May 2009)

Endgames not linked to MRCGP revision website 7 May 2009
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Chris Elfes,
Applied Knowledge Test Core Group, nMRCGP Exam
London SW7 1PU,
Chris Elfes, Carol Blow

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Re: Endgames not linked to MRCGP revision website

With reference to your Endgames “Painful joints and osteoarthritis” quiz(1) we would like you to make it clearer to your readers that the MRCGP licensing examination for general practitioners has no link whatsoever with the article’s cited on-line examination revision website.

Your article falsely states that the quiz “is taken from the MRCGP examination”. This is untrue given that all of the College’s question writers produce questions exclusively for the MRCGP examination. Could we suggest that you might reword the acknowledgement to say “that the quiz question is taken from "Onexamination's MRCGP resource revision course”?

Thank you in anticipation for correcting this misleading article.

Yours faithfully

Chris Elfes, Applied Knowledge Test Core Group, nMRCGP Exam

Carol Blow, AKT Clinical Lead, nMRCGP Exam

1. BMJ 2009;338:b1579

The relevant weblink is here: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/apr22_2/b1579

Competing interests: Employed on MRCGP exam

Wording for the Onexamination quiz 9 May 2009
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Amy Davis,
Associate editor
BMJ

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Re: Wording for the Onexamination quiz

Thank you for your suggestion. We have taken it on board and will alter the wording in future publications.

Competing interests: None declared