Lead finding first, because it changes everything that follows: as checked on 21 July 2026, Licence Medical (license-medical.com) does not publish an EECC bank, or any cardiology-specific bank. Its catalogue is built around MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2 and the physicianly Specialty Certificate Examinations, plus PLAB and MCCQE. So if you are searching for "Licence Medical for EECC", the honest answer is that there is no EECC product to audit — and the useful work is to show exactly where the near-misses are, what they can and cannot do for a European cardiology exam, and how to assemble coverage that actually maps to the ESC Core Curriculum.
What Licence Medical actually offers right now
Here is the current state, drawn from the vendor's own site and labelled accordingly. Verify anything price- or count-specific on the product pages before you buy, because these figures move.
| Item | Finding (checked 21 July 2026) |
|---|---|
| Dedicated EECC bank | None. No EECC product listed. |
| Cardiology-specific bank | None. No standalone cardiology bank listed. |
| Actual catalogue | MRCP Part 1 and Part 2; SCE specialties — Acute Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology, Endocrinology & Diabetes, Medical Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Neurology, plus European specialty exams in Nephrology (ESENeph) and Gastroenterology; PLAB 1; MCCQE1; Geriatric medicine |
| AI / adaptive features | Not advertised as an adaptive-AI tutor; treat as a conventional question bank unless the product page states otherwise |
| Question counts and price | Vendor-reported and not consistently published per bank; verify the live count, access period and price on each product page |
| Supported EECC components | None directly. The only cardiology overlap is the cardiology content inside the general MRCP Part 1/2 banks |
This is not a criticism of Licence Medical. It is a competent physicianly and SCE-oriented revision provider. It simply is not an EECC provider, and no amount of framing changes that.
The exam a coverage audit has to check against
The EECC is the European Society of Cardiology's written knowledge examination: 120 single-best-answer MCQs with five options each, no negative marking, three hours with no break, delivered by online proctoring on your own computer, in English, once a year. Its content spans the entire ESC Core Curriculum for the Cardiologist (2020): coronary disease, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, valvular disease, arrhythmias and electrophysiology, adult congenital heart disease, pericardial and myocardial disease, aortic and pulmonary vascular disease, hypertension and prevention, and the imaging and investigative methods that underpin all of them. A genuine EECC bank has to sample all of that, calibrated to European guidance. A general MRCP bank samples cardiology as one of many internal-medicine systems, calibrated to UK practice and NICE.
Blueprint by blueprint: where the coverage sits
Because there is no EECC bank to audit, this table audits the alternative you might reach for — the cardiology inside the MRCP Part 1/2 banks — against the EECC curriculum domains.
| EECC curriculum domain | Licence Medical direct EECC coverage | Indirect overlap via MRCP cardiology | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coronary artery disease (ACS + chronic) | None | Partial — common MRCP topic, UK/NICE-weighted | Foundation only |
| Heart failure and cardiomyopathy | None | Partial — but ESC ejection-fraction pharmacotherapy detail may exceed MRCP depth | Foundation only |
| Valvular heart disease | None | Light — imaging-heavy severity grading under-represented | Insufficient |
| Arrhythmia, EP and devices | None | Light — device and EP depth below EECC | Insufficient |
| Adult congenital heart disease | None | Minimal — ACHD is thin in general IM banks | Gap |
| Pericardial and myocardial disease | None | Partial | Foundation only |
| Imaging (echo, CMR, CT, nuclear) | None | Minimal — image interpretation is not an MRCP strength | Gap |
| Haemodynamics and invasive data | None | Minimal | Gap |
| Hypertension, prevention and lipids | None | Partial — but UK targets, not necessarily current ESC targets | Foundation, check currency |
The pattern is consistent: a general bank can lay foundations in the "medical" cardiology domains, but leaves the imaging-, haemodynamics- and ACHD-heavy parts of the ESC curriculum largely uncovered — and those are exactly the parts that distinguish a cardiology exam from an internal-medicine one.
Sample question style, and why the overlap is limited
MRCP-style cardiology items are strong, well-referenced single-best-answer questions — but they are written for physicians entering higher training, with UK-context management and NICE-aligned thresholds. EECC items are written for cardiologists, lean harder on tracing and image interpretation, and expect current ESC class-and-level reasoning. Stem length and option plausibility are comparable; the divergence is in depth, in image density and in the guideline framework. Practising MRCP cardiology teaches you real cardiology, but it does not calibrate you to the EECC's standard or its European guidance.
Jurisdiction and recency
This is the sharpest risk. A UK-oriented bank encodes UK practice and NICE guidance; the EECC encodes ESC guidance, and the two are not always identical on thresholds, first-line agents or intervention indications. For any medicines detail, check the current ESC guideline and the SmPC/eMC rather than a UK bank explanation. Sampled against current primary guidance on 21 July 2026, the general-bank cardiology content should be treated as conceptually sound but not automatically current for European thresholds — verify anything you intend to rely on.
The format gap
Can a standard text question bank prepare you for ECGs, imaging, haemodynamics and European guideline updates? Only partly, and this is true of any bank, not just this one. Text-recall practice builds recognition; it does not reliably build the ability to read an unlabelled tracing, grade a valve from an image, or interpret a pressure trace. Those competencies need dedicated tracing and imaging practice and primary guideline reading — the subject of our companion piece on what MCQ banks cannot prepare you for in EECC.
In practice this means that even if Licence Medical did publish a cardiology bank, you would still need dedicated tracing and imaging work alongside it — so the absence of an EECC bank changes where you source your questions, but not the underlying rule that image and haemodynamic skills are built by doing them rather than by reading about them. Plan for that regardless of which vendor you eventually choose, and do not let any bank's completion figure persuade you those skills have been trained.
Duplication and contamination
Because you would be borrowing MRCP cardiology rather than using an EECC bank, the contamination risk is not near-duplicate EECC stems but concept mismatch: repeatedly drilling UK-framed management until it feels automatic, then meeting a European-framed item that expects a different threshold. Recognition of your own bank is not knowledge of the exam's framework.
Best-fit matrix
| Use case | Is Licence Medical the right tool? |
|---|---|
| Primary EECC question bank | No — there is no EECC bank |
| EECC foundation building in "medical" cardiology | Only incidentally, via MRCP content, if you already hold it |
| Imaging / haemodynamics / ACHD for EECC | No |
| MRCP Part 1/2 or an SCE specialty | Yes — this is its actual purpose |
Worked example: a realistic seven-day plan
Suppose you are a trainee working clinically and revising for the June EECC. The honest plan does not have a Licence Medical row for the EECC job, because it cannot fill one. It looks like this.
- Days 1–2: a dedicated EECC bank (for example StudyPRN, vendor-reported at 641 cardiology questions including a 100-question three-hour mock, £199 for three months at the time of checking — verify current figures) for a domain-filtered first pass on your two weakest curriculum areas.
- Days 3–4: tracing and imaging drills for the same two domains, plus the current ESC guideline for each.
- Day 5: a fresh, timed, mixed block in iatroX as an unseen-transfer check — new items testing the same principles, so you find out whether the learning generalised rather than whether you remember the bank.
- Day 6: review misses by error code, one corrective action each; re-test the earlier misses.
- Day 7: a timed integrated mini-mock; log domain floors.
If you also hold a Licence Medical subscription, it is serving your MRCP or SCE goal that week, not your EECC goal — and that is the honest way to represent it.
Decision checklist
- Continue with Licence Medical if your real target is MRCP Part 1/2 or an SCE it covers.
- Supplement for EECC by adding a dedicated EECC bank plus imaging/tracing practice — this is mandatory, not optional, because the EECC coverage is absent.
- Switch your primary EECC resource to a dedicated cardiology bank; do not try to make a general physicianly bank stand in for it.
- Stop using overall completion percentage as your readiness signal; use unseen, timed accuracy by domain instead.
Bottom line
Licence Medical is a capable MRCP and SCE provider, and this audit is not a mark against it. But it does not publish an EECC or cardiology bank, so it cannot be your primary EECC resource. Use a dedicated EECC bank for exam-specific volume, dedicated practice for imaging and haemodynamics, the ESC's own material for calibration, and iatroX as the unseen-measurement layer that tells you whether any of it has transferred.
Frequently asked questions
Is Licence Medical enough for EECC on its own? No — and not because it is weak, but because it does not contain an EECC or cardiology bank, so on its own it cannot cover a European cardiology curriculum at all. The most it can offer an EECC candidate is incidental foundation cardiology inside its MRCP Part 1/2 banks, which is UK-framed and imaging-light; you would still need a dedicated EECC resource for the exam itself.
Which EECC component does Licence Medical not reproduce well? All of them, since it has no EECC content, but the components it comes least close to even indirectly are the image-, tracing- and haemodynamics-based items and adult congenital heart disease — the areas where a general internal-medicine bank is thinnest. It also cannot be relied on for current ESC guideline thresholds, because its cardiology content is written to UK practice.
How many Licence Medical questions should I complete per day for EECC? This is the wrong metric for this platform, because Licence Medical questions are not EECC questions; a daily EECC quota should be set against a dedicated EECC bank instead. If you are using MRCP cardiology as background reading, treat it as foundation study — a modest, unmeasured supplement — and set your actual EECC daily target (commonly 30–60 items in a first pass) against the dedicated bank.
When should I stop using Licence Medical and move to mixed mocks? For EECC purposes you were never using it as the primary resource, so the trigger is simpler: once your domain floors on a dedicated EECC bank are met and your foundation cardiology feels secure, move to mixed, timed EECC mocks regardless of how much MRCP content remains. Mixed-mock readiness is defined by unseen EECC performance, not by finishing an unrelated MRCP bank.
How should I combine Licence Medical with iatroX without duplicating practice? Keep them in different jobs: if you are running Licence Medical for a genuine MRCP or SCE goal, use iatroX for unseen-transfer measurement on fresh items rather than re-drilling the same content, so you are testing generalisation, not memory. Our two-Q-bank rule explains how to add a second bank without duplicating questions or wrecking your calibration.
Editorial notes and references
Written by Dr Kolawole Tytler, NHS GP and founder of iatroX. Last checked 21 July 2026. Product details are vendor-reported; Licence Medical does not publish an EECC or cardiology bank as at this date, and where any count or price is mentioned you should verify it on the current product page. Disclosure: iatroX operates a competing question and clinical-knowledge platform; it does not publish a dedicated EECC bank, so its role here is confined to unseen-question measurement and foundational cardiology knowledge, jobs that Licence Medical does not claim for this exam. Corrections are welcome via the feedback route on iatrox.com. References: Licence Medical (license-medical.com) product pages; European Society of Cardiology — European Exam in Core Cardiology (escardio.org); StudyPRN EECC bank (studyprn.com) for the comparison figure; iatroX — "Your Q-Bank Percentage Is Not Your Exam Score"; iatroX comparison hub (iatrox.com/compare).