Reviews keyboard_arrow_right DOHNS Part B (OSCE) / MRCS(ENT) Course
The reviews displayed here are in answer to the question 'Kindly tell us your overall impression about the teaching, faculty and organisation of this course. Please state if this course helped to focus your revision for the exam'.
It was good.
VB
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom
It helped me to gain confidence in my skills and the topics were very relevant.
PW
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
Overall, it was a good course that focused on the key points of the upcoming exam. It definitely made me feel more confident and more aware. I feel that examinations, particularly of the ear, neck and FNE, should be demonstrated like manned stations (i.e. in small groups where participants are given the opportunity to perform examinations). It would help each individual to be aware of his/her own deficiencies. I would definitely recommend this course to others planning on appearing for the DOHNS examination and hope that one day I will be able to become a trainee faculty for this course.
SF
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Overall, it was both good and informative.
MA
Saham Hospital, Saham, Oman
This was a very organised course. The faculty and their feedback was good. I very much enjoyed it and found it useful to kickstart my revision for the exam in June.
JB
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The course gave a direction regarding how to prepare for the exam. The mock OSCE and manned revision stations were excellent.
PM
Career Break
Everything was well conducted and timely. The conductors were very helpful and friendly. It was excellently taught and motivated. I will definitely recommend this course to others. Thank you so much!
NA
Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute, Mangalore, India
I was expecting other examinations such as nose, oral cavity and cranial nerve examinations to be taught, but the teaching was excellent. They tried to cover all of the topics which was good. I really liked the coaching; I would have loved to have attended the Focused Communication Course as well.
SM
Meenakshi ENT Specialty Centre, Bengaluru, India
The mock exams provided very good practice before the exam. The books weren’t able to be delivered to places outside of the UK by post: if that could be fixed, it would be great.
DN
S L Raheja Hospital, Mahim, Mumbai, India
It was certainly a wonderful programme for candidates who had no idea about how the DOHNS OSCE is conducted. It was also useful for abroad students to get a perfect picture of how the manned stations should be done. I especially learnt a lot from the communication skills programme on the second day.
MK
Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India
This was a really good course, providing good value for money. The facilitators were enthusiastic, friendly and good fun.
KY
Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Northern Ireland, UK
Overall, the course was very helpful and helped a lot regarding the structure of the exam. The manned stations and the mock exam were especially important.
JA
Salmaniya Medical Complex, Bahrain
I thought the mock OSCE exam was very useful.
LJ
James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
The mock exam was very useful
AE
King Khalid Hospital, Hail, Saudi Arabia
The course was good
SS
K.E.M. Hospital Pune, India
The manned stations were extremely helpful, and the mock exam was also important.
AA
Saudi-German Hospital Cairo, Egypt
It was good
LR
Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
It was good.
DP
Hereford Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
It was very good.
EB
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This was a well organised course. Despite only being a one-day course, all relevant topics were covered and to a suitable depth of knowledge.
SK
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
It was very good overall.
SA
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, United Kingdom
It was well organised. There was a good spread for lunch and snacks, and the staff were friendly.
AS
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
It was already a good course.
TK
Kaman State Hospital, Kirsehir, Turkey
It was very good
YI
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
It was very good.
AE
Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
It was great.
SM
Port of Spain General Hospital, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
It was a really good programme to cement what we've learned. It was good for revision purposes.
RA
Apollo Hospitals
The faculty were very professional and friendly.
AB
Yatharth Super Speciality Hospital, Noida, India
An excellent course. Very helpful, friendly knowledgeable faculty. Thoroughly enjoyed the day. Feel a lotmore confident for part 2 now. Thanks again!
RB
Mayo University Hospital
Very good.
AS
St Mary's Hospital, London
It was actually the individual bits of advice I found most helpful.
AN
Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield
Good.
AA
Shalamar Medical And Dental College And Hospital Lahore
Good.
ES
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
The course was accurately structured to cover important topics. It was well scheduled and time fixed foreach session was appropriate. It was a very good learning experience. I am very impressed with theattitude of the teachers which was very encouraging. I have recommended this course to all those whoplan to appear for the coming exam.
SK
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, New Delhi
Useful especially for first times like myself.
AE
Ministry Of Health, Jordan
Good overall.
AA
Ministry Of Health, Jordan
The communication group sessions were the most useful part of the day. Great organisation of the day,the registrar was the most helpful and detailed in his explanations with relevance to our exam; ratherthan just teaching based on their own clinical knowledge and practice.
SL
Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital
Good - keep up the good work.
TP
University Hospital Southampton NHS , United Kingdom , Europe
Lectures were a very high standard. Mock stations were also very useful. Would definitely recommend to anyone sitting DOHNS.
AS
Royal Derby Hospital
Very friendly approachable faculty with excellent teaching skills. Perhaps a bit more time to practice the communication stations (but I appreciate that you offer additional days for this.) Overall I cannot think of many improvements, thank you so much for the day.
AM
Milton Keynes General Hospital
I very much enjoyed the practical skills and the sessions given by Darren. Darren is a very engaging teacher and his teaching style was well received throughout the cohort. I felt extremely reassured by the presentation and really appreciated hearing from a recent successful candidate about her experiences.
LW
Royal Gwent hospital
Good.
JN
Klang
Overall a very succinct and helpful one-day course. Not too bombarded with info, but enough to cover all the main topics.
LC
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
Topics were very relevant and it was kept to the most essential.
SF
Ninewells Hospital
Very well organised. Most helpful for the communication stations.
KG
Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield
Friendly team excellent teaching.
DM
Centenary Hospital, Govandi Mumbai
It was good.
HA
LMU hospital Munich
Generally good.
HM
Surgical specialization hospital
Very well organised !! The mock exam was even better than the real exam itself !
DK
Royal Bolton Hospital, Bolton
Organization , teaching and presentation All were excellent.
EI
Benghazi Medical Centre, Libya
The course was very well organised and kept to scheduled time. Overall Very well organised andexecuted.
CB
San Fernando General Hospital
I liked the course very much as it helped me a lot in preparing for main exam.
AS
AIIMS, Patna
Very nicely structured . Specially the communication skills part really helped during the exam.
MA
Primus SuperSpeciality Hospital, New Delhi
Very good.
WT
Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester
I was very happy attending this course. I felt a lot more confident attending and the exam after attendingthe course.
AV
University Malaya Medical Center
Very well organised - managed to cover a large volume of material within 1 day. Particularly like the skullbase and head and neck anatomy session and talking through the vestibular exam. The mock exam wasuseful.
MH
Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport
Well ran course with knowledgeable instructors.
RA
Craigavon Area Hospital, Craigavon
This course was very useful to me...especially to develop communication skills .
RR
Muthu Kumaran Medical College
Thorough lectures, good feedback, well organized.
KK
Royal Free Hospital, London
Excellent. best feature is the practice in communication skills and examination.
MZ
University Hospital, Coventry
Very good.
WP
Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester
It was a very good course and I would recommend it to everyone sitting for the exam. The refreshmentswere excellent.
FA
Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor
In one day you covered almost the entire topic in a well structured manner. Gave enough time to interactand clear our doubts. The thing I liked the most is you made each one of us practice our communicationstations and corrected our mistakes.
GM
KIMS Alshifa Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Perinthalmanna, Kerala
Excellent course I would happily attend again but hopefully won’t need to.
JA
Morriston Hospital, Swansea
I will certainly recommend must have course before appearing in Exam especially for overseas doctorswho don't know the UK system especially the final session of 2 hour drill of exam gave you confidence inthe real exam and they tell you your mistakes in the feedback.
AM
Shalamar Hospital Lahore Pakistan
I liked the faculty in general , very helpful , and tried their best in span of 1 day.
FB
King Hamad University Hospital of Bahrain
I just want to say that i pass the exam and get very high score thank you soo much for all the team .Special greating to dr haider .
MAH
Private in oman
Excellent organization. The faculty were genuinely interested in teaching.
RBS
Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Very good - highly recommend.
MR
Charing Cross Hospital, London
Good.
BK
Atlas Polyclinic
The breadth of topics which were covered was good. The anatomy station was very good, especiallybase of skull.
ACY
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester
The course was very good.
MWMB
El Sahel Teaching Hospital
Really great course. Packed a lot in. Good for revision purposes. Good to practice via mock.
KLH
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Well organised and accommodated requests very well.
JDW
Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley
Very useful and well organised. Teaching on the whole excellent by faculty, many of whom had satDOHNS fairly recently. The sessions on clinical examination were excellent and prepared me well for theexam, as did the communication sessions - good to know what is expected and level of detail etc.
JCR
Warwick Hospital, Warwick
Thank you for the kind efforts.
ZMR
Hamad Medical Corporation
Organisation was good. Happy that someone was waiting outside for the candidates.
NJ
Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Valuable.
TS
Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Specialist Hospital, Yangon
Really well organized.
SC
Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle
Very good.
IN
Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield
Very good. Thank you.
AP
St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
Really enjoyable, well structured.
EH
Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, UK
Very organised course.
RL
James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
An excellent course. Especially the communication part is excellent and gave me a lot of confidence afterthe course.
RU
Southampton General Hospital, UK
It is good and well done.
CK
Ipswich Hospital, UK
The contents of the course were good & relevant. The presentations were clear. Would be recommendingit to others preparing for the exam.
NJ
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton
Excellent course. Great faculty who were very approachable and friendly. Toby Moorhouse = legend.David Smith = legend. Thank you.
TP
Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury
Good organization. Good time keeping for a busy, intensive day. Lots of topics covered in short space oftime! Pictures in lectures were excellent.
EM
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford
The course was excellent and provided good value for money. I will definitely recommend it to my friends.
VA
Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton
Good course and faculty. High quality and relevant presentations. The topics covered were appropriatefor exam preparation.
AO
Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham
High standard of faculty. Relevant for exam preparation. Content of the course was excellent. Thank you.
ME
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
Good, exam focused course.
AM
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
Where the gaps in my knowledge were. The course was well organised and the tutors were approachableand knowledgeable.
EM
Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury
Very well organised course. The mock OSCE was very informative and useful.
RK
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester
Within one day session of 10 hours, it's the best possible course.
JK
King Saud Medical City, Saudi Arabia
Was pitched at the appropriate level for exam. Can't thank you enough.
AG
Ulster Hospital, Dundonald
Good course. Well planned out. Good to have OSCE at the end.
JL
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham
This was a very useful course, an eye opener and aptly held a few days before the exam. The facultymanaged to cater for those sitting for the upcoming exams and also those who have just startedpreparation. They gave an excellent insight into the exam and were very encouraging to everyone.
GC
Sundaram Medical Foundation
I like that, although it was a long day, it was all delivered in one day eliminating the need for 2 nights hotelstay which is great as exams can get really expensive.
JG
University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool
Excellent organization. The faculty were genuinely interested in teaching.
RB
Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Very good - highly recommend.
MR
Charing Cross Hospital, London
Good.
BK
Atlas Polyclinic
The breadth of topics which were covered was good. The anatomy station was very good, especiallybase of skull.
AC
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester
The course was very good.
MK
El Sahel Teaching Hospital
Really great course. Packed a lot in. Good for revision purposes. Good to practice via mock.
KE
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Well organised and accommodated requests very well.
JD
Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley
Very useful and well organised. Teaching on the whole excellent by faculty, many of whom had satDOHNS fairly recently. The sessions on clinical examination were excellent and prepared me well for theexam, as did the communication sessions - good to know what is expected and level of detail etc.
JC
Warwick Hospital, Warwick
Thank you for the kind efforts.
ZJ
Hamad Medical Corporation
Organisation was good. Happy that someone was waiting outside for the candidates.
NJ
Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Valuable.
TS
Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Specialist Hospital, Yangon
Really well organized.
SC
Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle
Very good.
IN
Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield
Very relevant.
KC
St John's Hospital at Howden, Livingston, UK
Excellent course. Really thanks a lot.
FA
Al Noor Hospital, UAE
All aspects of the course were helpful and well organised, well paced and the mock exam helped buildconfidence in communication skills.
KM
University College Hospital, London, UK
The teachers were very encouraging and helpful and the mock exam was extremely useful as well. Iespecially liked the punctuality and the time management as well.
MK
Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan
The practical sessions were extremely useful and very informal. The skull base session was veryuseful.
NR
Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, UK
Excellent course and faculty. Good quality presentations. The Organisation was good.
RWCG
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
It was an excellent day. Very well organised and all the faculty members were easily approachable andhelpful.
LL
University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK
A very well organised course. Very friendly and helpful instructors.
EV
Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, UK
Very relevant. We had to perform vestibular assessment in the exam, which we had covered. Particularlygood, for me, was knowing the setup for the communication stations. Really excellent. A long day but niceto cover everything in one go. Great faculty, very helpful and encouraging.
ELK
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK
Mock test is the best part.
RP
Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK
Friendly and approachable team. Good selection of topics.
RP
Ongar Health Centre, Ongar, UK
Great effort; very nice course overall. Will give more feedback after the exam.
MAA
Liaquat National Hospital, Pakistan
Very organized. Very good OSCE. Really well-taught course. Well worth the money.
FN
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Excellent course; well organized; enthusiastic knowledgeable staff; very glad I come. Feel much more prepared for exam now.
RC
Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry
Overall very good-knowledgeable staff, friendly, good feedback during the sessions and OSCE.
AH
Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock
Excellent opportunity to practice. Highlighting key topics for revision was very useful. Good candidate to instructor ratio.Highly recommended.
SE
Singleton Hospital, Swansea
All excellent teachers. Morning anatomy was fantastic. Good basis to focus revision exam skills + history taking. Very focused and excellent value for money.
LB
Croydon University Hospital, Croydon
I passed the recent DOHNS exam and the course helped me a lot. I would say that the patient stations this time is around 60-70% similar to the course. Consent giving and breaking bad news stations are quite similar. I highly recommend the course to future candidates taking theDOHNS exam.
CC
Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong
I have been successful in passing the DOHNS OSCE, thanks to your course. The mock exam was very similar to the real exam, especially the manned stations which are considered to be the most difficult. I would be very interested to teach as a junior faculty in your courses. Many thanks!
GT
Hippokratio Hospital, Athens, Greece
Organised, friendly, approachable and knowledgeable faculty. Very good course
EO
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
When trying to prepare for my DOHNS examination I found very little information or appropriate books aimed for this examination. This course covered all the main areas for the examination and was by far better than any book available. Great advice and feedback was provided, and I especially enjoyed the small group teaching and the ready availability of the faculty to give any answers or advice. If wouldbe hard to fail this examination if you attend the Cardiff DOHNS course!
DB
Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport
Fortunately I passed the DOHNS exam. I found your revision course very useful - particularly with relation to the giving information station and general information about structure of the examination. Thank you for a great course! Highly recommended!
RE
University Hospitals South Manchester
Very well organized. Good content and will definitely recommend to colleagues.
AB
Whiston Hospital, Prescot
A very informative course for DOHNS OSCE exam. There was good opportunity to practice for the real exam since the OSCE was in a very similar format. It was very helpful. It covered the major topics. Thank you very much.
MIA
It is very informative and very illustrative of the DOHNS.
AAS
Sheikh Khalifa Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Superb course!
JK
Torbay Hospital
Well organized course, highly relevant to exam with excellent value for money. Could be advertised to a greater degree for the benefit of more trainees.
MW
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
I am pleased to inform you that I passed the exam. The course was very useful and helped me to find similar minded people to revise with in preparation for the exam, thank you.
TM
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Good course, the level was optimal for the exam.
SK
Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport
Very good enjoyable course with good booklet to work on after course!
KR
Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield
Fantastic – I have done a few MRCS + MRCP revision courses in the past but this was much better.
CH
Queen's Hospital
Very nice small groups and hence felt easy to ask questions. Good interactive sessions.
KH
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
It was ever so helpful. An excellent idea to have the mock exam. Communication stations were challenging but good practice all the same. The faculties were all excellent and gave constructive feedback. I particularly enjoyed skull base anatomy and neck examination. Thank you.
HB
James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
Excellent! Definitely helped me prepare for the exam. Communication stations are very useful with helpful feedback. Well done and thank you.
SM
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
I did and the course very helpful and complemented my existing knowledge, enabling me to pass the exam. The course itself is a refresher course and is most suited for candidates revising their existing ENT knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and would recommend it to my fellow ENT colleagues planning to sit for their DOHNS.
SL
Monklands Hospital, Lanarkshire
I did pass the DOHNS OSCE. This was the first course I had ever been to. It was defnitely helpful, and I am glad I had driven all the way in the morning from Kent to Cardiff and back because it gave me the extra confidence and a bit more understanding of what was involved in this exam. I felt that the staffs were really helpful and kind and although it felt quite intensive for one day, it was worth it.
DK
Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent
The course was very useful especially the Mock Patient Station. Mock station included consent for parotid surgery, Examination of oral, neck and FNE, unilateral hearing loss, examination of ears in a child, Unilateral tonsil history and DD. Thank you very much.
IK
Whiston Hospital, Merseyside
I attended the DOHNS OSCE revision course held at Cardiff University in May 2010 and appeared for the exams in October 2010. I'm very pleased to inform you that I was successful and take this opportunity to thank the team at Cardiff for their guidance and support. I can testify that the revision course is very well organized and gave me an insight of what we have to do and what is expected from us in the exam. The course also helped in time management for each station. The faculty was very friendly and all my doubts were cleared.
NK
General Hospital, Port Of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
I am happy to inform you that I passed the exam! The course was very helpful and I got a lot of information from the courses. I am very happy to have met the faculty and appreciate their knowledge. Thank you for the course!
AO
Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Excellent- good material, good faculty, well run.
FL
Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Excellent, Very relevant and useful! I feel much more confident now.
NL
Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool
Good, that the course is one month before exam. Well organized and good time keeping.
EW
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Friendly and helpful demonstrators/lecturers. History taking and communication skills stations were good. OSCE felt like real exam. Hope there is future follow-up from faculty until the exam
SMA
Hospital Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
I found the anatomy sessions particularly useful. The mock OSCE gave me an idea of what the exam would be like, and the communication skill sessions highlighted what the examiners are looking for. It was a confidence boosting day altogether. All the staff were very professional and exceptionally helpful. I would appreciate it if you could send me a PDF fee receipt. Thanks!
JY
Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend
It was good but certain things were hurried up due to lack of time.
SM
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India
Excellent course. Very useful exam preparation particularly the practice OSCE at the end of the day Faculty very approachable and helpful.
AB
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Generally a very good course. I appreciate it had to be kept to one day, but it felt a little rushed, especially the mock OSCE. Anatomy revision was a nice refresher, perhaps a little too much emphasis was put on the foramina of the skull but I appreciate people tend to worry about this. All in all, good course and seems to be better value than others around. Many thanks.
AP
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
If possible a bit more time to do practical parts/history station and mock OSCE. Thanks again for a very good course.
AS
Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral
I liked everything.
RYS
Al Dewaniya Teaching Hospital
Very useful course prior to taking the DOHNS part B. Handouts of lectures would have been useful.
AH
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester
Teaching of a great standard that not only helps with the exam but also in general ENT. A session or handout on basic operations and instruments used would be useful.
DC
Royal London Hospital, London
Very well managed and presented.
AA
University Hospital, Coventry
Very thorough, covered almost everything despite being a one day course.
MG
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
I though the course was on the whole excellent - it was very focused to the learning needed to pass the DOHNS and the opportunity to practice OSCEs and do a mock exam was very helpful. I will certainly go into the exam much better prepared.
RG
University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Good.
NGN
Barnet Hospital, Barnet
I highly recommend this informative course for the DOHNS candidates especially for overseas candidates.
LA
Martyr Gazi Alhariry Specialized Surgical Hospital/Medical City Complex