What are the eligibility requirements for the PACES examination?

Candidates are required to have passed or gained exemption from the Part 1 and Part 2 Written examinations. In addition, candidates need two and a half years' work experience / training since graduation. Twelve months of this two and a half years must have been spent in a Senior House Officer, equivalent or higher grade in acute medicine posts in which there is a strong emphasis on responsibility for unselected emergency admissions and the continuing care of acute emergency medical patients. Candidates also need to have gained their twelve months of Senior House Officer acute medicine experience within five years of the PACES examination they are taking.

It is also presumed (as in the UK) that all doctors will have undertaken a pre-registration year / year at a house officer level or equivalent in which they would have gained 6 months experience in acute medicine. If this has not been the case then you would also need to obtain a further 6 months of acute experience.