The 2023 ESENeph examination was sat by 265 candidates from various countries and training backgrounds. The passing score was established at 422 based on prior UK trainee performance. UK trainees had an overall pass rate of 74.4% while the pass rate for all candidates was 61.5%. Topic performance varied between candidates, with inherited and rare diseases having the highest scores and peritoneal dialysis the lowest.
The 2023 ESENeph examination was sat by 265 candidates from various countries and training backgrounds. The passing score was established at 422 based on prior UK trainee performance. UK trainees had an overall pass rate of 74.4% while the pass rate for all candidates was 61.5%. Topic performance varied between candidates, with inherited and rare diseases having the highest scores and peritoneal dialysis the lowest.
The 2023 ESENeph examination was sat by 265 candidates from various countries and training backgrounds. The passing score was established at 422 based on prior UK trainee performance. UK trainees had an overall pass rate of 74.4% while the pass rate for all candidates was 61.5%. Topic performance varied between candidates, with inherited and rare diseases having the highest scores and peritoneal dialysis the lowest.
The 2023 ESENeph examination was sat by 265 candidates from various countries and training backgrounds. The passing score was established at 422 based on prior UK trainee performance. UK trainees had an overall pass rate of 74.4% while the pass rate for all candidates was 61.5%. Topic performance varied between candidates, with inherited and rare diseases having the highest scores and peritoneal dialysis the lowest.
The 2023 ESENeph examination was sat in September 2023 by 265 candidates of whom 78 were self- declared UK trainees and 42 were European candidates (sitting in European centres other than UK centres). Candidates who did not declare their training details and the OTH group are reported as 'Other' (145). From 2022 ‘OTH’ self-declared UK trainees are excluded from UK trainees’ cohort.
Pass Mark
The ESENeph 2023 examination was equated using 2019 UK trainees’ performance and the passing score was established at 440. In November 2022, after the standards review based on 2019 UK trainees’ performance after excluding OTH group the new passing score was decreased to 422. All future examinations will use 422 as the passing score until the standards are reviewed by the ESENeph Examination Board.
For the 2023 examination the pass score of 422 had a correspondent percent of 64.3% or 128/199.
One question was removed from scoring due to poor performance.
UK trainees’ performance
In 2023 the highest sitting number was in ST5 (27) with a pass rate of 70.4%. Pass rate for all trainees was 74.4%% and for all candidates the pass rate was 61.5%.
Note: The numbers at the top of the bars are the number of sitting trainees.
1 European candidates’ performance
In 2023 the highest number of sitting candidates is in Switzerland (12).
