The guidance below is designed to ensure you provide us with the appropriate information to allow us to process your application without delay. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact frcs3@rcpsg.ac.uk

Key documents are available on the FRCS Part 3 website under the documentation section. Candidates should ensure that they have read the examination’s terms and conditions, and the FRCS Ophthalmology Part 1-3 regulations before proceeding. 

First time candidates eligible for direct entry through the ICO route must submit the following documents in order to proceed this application. Failure to provide any of the below documents may result in your application being rejected.

· An attested copy of your Primary Medical Qualification Certificate.

· 12 months internship/compulsory rotationship/pre-registration training certificate 

· Evidence of the completion of 60 months of clinical experience of which 54 full months must be in Clinical Ophthalmology. 

AND

· ICO Basic/Visual Sciences Certificate

· ICO Optics, Refraction, and Instruments Certificate

· ICO Clinical Ophthalmology/Clinical Science Certificate

OR

· Other exempting qualifications as outlined in FRCS 3 Exempting Qualifications Document

  

If your documents are not in English, you must submit an official translation of the document(s) along with the untranslated original(s). Please note that we require professionally translated documents. Any documents which have been translated by applicants will not be accepted.

 

Attested documents must include:

· A photocopy of your original document must be signed by a hospital consultant, a senior hospital official or a notary public.

· An original institutional stamp and date. e-signatures or digital stamps will not be accepted.

· Official translations will be required for stamps or certificates that are not in English. 

· Attestations on the back of a document will not be accepted. 

1. Please upload an attested copy of your primary medical qualification certificate.

 

· A photocopy of your original document must be signed by a hospital consultant, a senior hospital official or a notary public.

· The attested copy must contain an original institutional stamp and date. e-signatures or digital stamps will not be accepted.

· Official translations will be required for stamps or certificates that are not in English. 

· Attestations on the back of a document will not be accepted. 

2. Please upload evidence of completion of 60 months clinical experience of which 54 full months must be in Clinical Ophthalmology. Letters confirming a candidate’s clinical experience must be dated and be printed on official headed paper. Start and end dates must be given for each clinical post.   

 

If your documents are not in English, you must submit an official translation of the document(s) along with the untranslated original(s). Please note that we require professionally translated documents. Any documents which have been translated by applicants will not be accepted.

I confirm that I have read, understood and agree to the current examination regulations. 

I confirm that to the best of my knowledge all the information given on this form is a true statement of fact.

I confirm that I have the funds available and am prepared to pay the exam fee within 2 working days of receiving confirmation of a place.

I understand that my place on the exam is not secure until the fee has been paid and my application along with the necessary supporting documentation has been reviewed and confirmed as accepted.