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Received: 7 February 2017

Accepted: 22 March 2018

First Online: 6 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study is part of a research project that has received ethical approval from the UCL Research Ethics Committee (reference 5025/001). Data were gathered for routine administrative purposes and consent to participate was not sought.

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: EU is undertaking a PhD funded by UCL Medical School supervised by JD and KW.KW is a Higher Education Funding Council England supported faculty member at UCL and a National Institute for Health Research Fellow. She provides paid educational consultancy to MRCP (UK) and is on the editorial board (Associate Editor) of the journal BMC Medical Education.AE is Medical Director of MRCP (UK) and was Chair of the Clinical Examining Board of MRCP (UK) during the period of time investigated in this study.HP is a Higher Education Funding Council England supported faculty member at UCL. He has received consultancy fees from Crystallise and The HELP Trust, and funding from myownteam and Shift.ms.JD is the President of the Royal College of Physicians of England and was Medical Director of MRCP (UK) during the period of time investigated in this study.

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