Edmund Jessop

The best way to contact me is by email: Edmund.jessop@gmail.com

PREPARING FOR THE PART A EXAMINATION OF THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MFPH)

I run a revision course for the Part A exam, about a month before each sitting. This is a two-day course which focuses on exam technique. It is suitable for people who have completed a Masters course or equivalent basic learning.

 

Next courses in England:

 

For people sitting in January 2012 – alas you are too late!

 

Winchester 28th / 29th November 2011

Winchester 12th / 13th December 2011

 

For people sitting in June 2012 – booking opens 1st February 2012

 

Winchester 23rd / 24th April 2012

Winchester 10th / 11th May 2012

 

How to apply:

Send me an email at the above address on or after the ‘booking opens’ date, stating when you plan to sit the exam.

 

(Different arrangements apply in Hong Kong.)

 

Downloads:

Click here for the course handout including tips on technique.

This is the full text version, which is fully referenced with hyperlinks for you to follow up matters of interest. To read before or after but this is NOT what you need on the course. If you use this please donate £10 to http://www.justgiving.com/edmundjessop and also send me some feedback on what needs improving.

I run a weekly blog of interesting papers in journals.

Other bits and bobs for the exam include three examples of critical appraisal, each around 1200 - 1300 words which is what you would write in 40 minutes in the exam. The management syllabus is tricky for most people and not well covered in the textbooks, so I have written some 500 word answers under exam conditions on many of the items in the management syllabus.

And, only for the truly desperate, here is a summary of the epidemiology of some common diseases.

Here is a mock exam (set by me in Dec 2011; next up end May 2012.) This mock covers Papers I and IIA; here is a set of practice paper IIB questions. 

The syllabus and past papers are available from the Faculty's website at http://www.fph.org.uk/ 

 

Click here for test file