Painful joints and osteoarthritis
BMJ 2009; 338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1579 (Published 22 April 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1579
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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
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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
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