Success in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination Procedure for the Award of the Fellowship

Important Notice For All Candidates

Immediately following an Examination, the Head of the Intercollegiate Specialty Examinations will send a list of successful candidates (including details of their affiliated Colleges / designated College) to each of the four Surgical Royal Colleges.

Successful Candidates – who are already affiliated to one of the Colleges and hold either the FRCS, AFRCS or MRCSA candidate who is successful in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination and who holds a Fellowship in Surgery-in-General, Associate Fellowship or Membership will be advised by his/her affiliated College, in due course, of the process for applying for election to, or award of the Fellowship to which they may add the appropriate suffix indicating the Specialty in which they were examined e.g. (FRCS Tr & Orth). In the case of a candidate being a Fellow of more than one College, then he/she will be required at the time of applying for the examination to designate the College by which this award is to be made.

Successful Candidates – who are not affiliated to a College and who do not hold the FRCS/AFRCS or MRCSA. Successful candidates who are not affiliated to one of the four Surgical Royal Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland (i.e. who do not hold the FRCS/AFRCS or MRCS) should notify the Intercollegiate Secretariat on application to sit the Examination, of the chosen Surgical Royal College from which they would wish to receive information on the process for applying for election to, or award of, the Fellowship.

NB
Success in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination does not automatically confer a Fellowship therefore, the designation FRCS (Suffix) must not be used until all formalities have been completed.

Please note that for Examinations from September 2002 the Intercollegiate Specialty Boards will cease to issue Certificates, these will be replaced by the Fellowship Diplomas of the Colleges.