Microquora.com

Welcome to Microquora.com.

We are a group of Infection specialists/microbiologists experience working in Microbiology in two countries in two different continents – UK and India.

We love to bring our expertise to you to help you achieve your goal. Our first offering –

A Course for FRCPath Microbiology –
“FRCPath Medical Microbiology Preparation: A Strategic Approach”

FRCPath is one of the most difficult exams in the field of Microbiology but can give you incredible benefits if successful. We are organising a course to help you understand all about this examination. What is this exam, how to prepare and those tips and guidance that will help you to become successful in this exam.
The programme is led by NHS Consultant Microbiologist with experience of mentoring trainees over 10 years and microbiologist, from India who are recently successful in this exam.

Faculty

Dr Suryabrata Banerjee,
FRCPath
Consultant Microbiologist & Clinical Lead, Medical Microbiology and Virology,
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK,
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Dr Safaa Muneer Ahmed,
MD, CIC®, FRCPath
Group Head – Clinical Microbiology & Hospital Infection Control
Renova Group of Hospitals | Consultant, Tenet Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India
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Dr Sai Shruti Iyer
MD, FRCPath
MBBS MD FRCPath(Med. Microbiology,UK) Head , Infection control and microbiology, Sankara Eye foundation India
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Ania Swan
RGN, RSCN, BSc (Hons), PGCert
Lead Nurse, Infection Prevention & Control, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation
Trust, UK

Course content

FRCPath Course Schedule

Day 1: Friday, 6th December 2025

Time Topic Description Speakers
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome & Housekeeping Welcome, Objective and Housekeeping —
9:15 – 9:45 FRCPath Introduction
  • What is the exam for
  • Requirements for this exam
  • Is it right for you? What advantage will you get by doing FRCPath (UK)
  • What exam to take – CICE, part 1 infection or microbiology
  • Preparation time
  • Pass rate and scoring system
  • What advice are UK registrars given when they prepare for the exam
  • Q&A
 Dr Surya
9:45 – 11:30 Question Analysis
  • Question type
  • How are the questions made
  • Question areas that are favoured
  • How to tailor your preparation to answer these questions
  • How to answer the questions – strategy
  • System-specific high-yield areas
We cannot discuss questions from past years. It is not allowed by RCPath, but we will be able to give you a fairly good idea from our experience supervising trainees for > 10 years and first-hand experience of the examination
Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya
11:30 – 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break — —
11:45 – 12:15 Preparing for Part 1
  • How to do gap analysis. Plan for the revision, model plan, question analysis, and Exam strategy
  • (Optional for part 2 candidates)
 Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya
12:15 – 13:00 Preparation Strategy for Part 2 Gap analysis, Revision plan, Practical tips, Exam game plan Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya
13:00 – 14:00 UK Healthcare System
  • Role of a microbiologist
  • What do ID, virology, tropical medicine, and sexual health services do?
  • NHS framework – estate, IPC, management
  • NHS lab – DGH lab, reference lab, specialist labs
  • UKHSA
  • Community clinical system – GP, care home, nursing home
  • How the clinical service in the UK runs
  • UK microbiology training programme
 Dr Surya
14:00 – 14:45 Lunch — —
14:45 – 15:45 Resources for the Exam
  • How to read SMI
  • How to read EUCAST
  • HTM
  • Journals
  • Books
  • Courses
  • Questions
  • Greenbook etc
  • How you can use AI safely and effectively (prompt engineering)
 Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya
15:45 – 16:45 Antibiogram Analysis
  • Common resistance mechanisms and how to identify them from the antibiogram
  • What to read about antibiotics
 Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee/Tea Break — —
17:00 – 18:00 Interactive Q&A Interactive Q & A session and networking Dr Shruti
Dr Safaa
Dr Surya

Day 2: Saturday, 7th December 2025

Time Topic Description Speakers
9:00 – 9:15 Recap — —
9:15 – 9:45 What after FRCPath?
  • Opportunities in India
  • Opportunities in the UK
  • UK landscape
  • Registration routes
  • CV
  • Shortlisting and interview
  • CESR
 Dr Safaa
Dr Shruti
Dr Surya
9:45 – 11:00 Clinical Decision Making Real-life example:
  • Demand management decision making
  • Uncertainty of measurement decision making
  • Authorisation – result-based decision making
  • Types of calls – common types of calls and decision-making principles
  • Negative scenarios
 Dr Surya
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee/Tea Break — —
11:45 – 12:30 Clinical Decision Making To continue. Dr Surya
12:30 – 13:30 Case Discussion with Infection Control
  • How we manage HCAI (case-based) – C difficile, MRSA, Measles, TB (in NHS), etc
  • Outbreak management
 Dr Surya
13:30 – 14:15 Lunch — —
14:15 – 16:30 Water Safety, Ventilation & Decontamination Various aspects of water safety (Legionella control, Pseudomonas control), Theatre ventilation, pressurised rooms (PPV, NPV, PPVL), and endoscope decontamination. Experience of a senior NHS IPC nurse.
  • Theory
  • Discussion of real-life problems faced in the hospital (based on the type of questions asked in the exam)
 Dr Surya
Ania Swan
(Senior IPC nurse – TBC)
16:30 – 16:45 Break — —
16:45 – 17:15 Test Paper Two 30-minute test papers (one part 1 and one part 2) to give an idea of the type of exam questions (not marked) —
17:15 – 18:00 AMA/Review of Paper Ask Me Anything / Review of test papers Dr Surya
Dr Safaa
Dr Shruti

Registration

  • Full course fee 23000 INR
  • The course is both face-to-face and online. Online for overseas candidates
  • Venue: tbc, in Hyderabad, India
  • Date: 6 -7th December 2025
  • Same registration link for online and face-to-face

To register, use this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1emgM0Gy23DuQxf_qD1vyxhhJ44JgAGib2r1Ff0p2B1Q/edit

We will be delighted to answer any questions you may have. Email us at:

frcpathpreparatorycourse@gmail.com