Praktiki is a clinical microlearning platform with two connected audiences: clinicians completing short cases, and organisations creating educational programmes. For an individual doctor, the useful question is what happens after those five minutes. Can you explain the decision the case taught, recognise when its lesson applies and return to the part you found difficult?
This guide is published by iatroX and was checked on 31 October 2026. It explains Praktiki’s current public offer, examines the evidence it cites and proposes practical learning activities. We discuss iatroX first among complementary learning options because this is our publication; the comparison concerns advertised functions, rather than independently measured outcomes.
What Praktiki currently offers clinicians
Praktiki’s clinician page describes free five-minute cases for UK GPs and oncologists. It says practising clinicians write and peer-review the material, with AI accelerating production. Completed modules are logged automatically, and the record can be exported for appraisal.
The currently named specialties are general practice and oncology. Further specialties are described as coming through medical-society partners. That distinction helps a prospective user decide whether today’s catalogue matches their work, rather than choosing an app on the assumption that every specialty already has an equivalent programme.
Start by inspecting a case relevant to a recent learning need. Read its objective before beginning, answer the questions before opening the explanation and decide what you want to retain. A short format is especially useful when it lets you complete that whole activity within the time you have available.
The organisational platform is a different offer
The Praktiki homepage also addresses pharmaceutical companies, societies and healthcare organisations. It describes creating referenced clinical cases, distributing them and examining educational engagement. Its organisational route is a demonstration enquiry.
A society evaluating that platform has different questions from an individual GP choosing an evening learning activity. The society needs to inspect authorship, review, source updating and what the resulting analytics mean. The learner needs to see the module’s purpose and whether its content is relevant. Keeping those viewpoints distinct makes the business model easier to understand.
Basic and Premium are both described as free
Praktiki’s terms describe two free membership tiers. Basic provides modules for the user’s specialty on web and app. Premium adds curated email alerts matched to specialty and interests, including partner or sponsored modules. The terms say changing the email tier does not change module access.
The same document distinguishes independent educational content, sponsored work and promotional material. It says sponsorship is disclosed on the module and promotional content is identified. Read that label alongside the educational objective, author and references. It helps you understand who developed the activity and which question it is designed to address.
Read the learning evidence at the right level
Praktiki’s evidence page links research on case-based learning, repeated retrieval and spaced education. It also presents platform engagement measures. Those are different forms of evidence: a study of an educational approach answers a different question from a completion count or a satisfaction score.
One cited 2019 randomised trial of the Hygie serious game compared a case-based game with reading the source articles. Knowledge gain was greater in the game group, while the difference in final knowledge-test scores was not statistically significant. The intervention was Hygie, rather than Praktiki. Reading that distinction preserves what the study supports without transferring its findings to a different product automatically.
For your own learning, the practical implication is to examine the activity you actually perform. Are you retrieving an answer, receiving useful feedback and revisiting the difficult distinction? A five-minute case can support those actions. Simply finishing a short page gives you less information about what you will remember next week.
Make a short case produce a precise learning point
After a module, complete the sentence: “I initially thought ___; the important distinction was ___.” Keep both parts specific. This makes a surprising answer useful even when your overall score was high.
For example, an original teaching exercise might concern a routine review of long-term treatment. You remember the medicine’s purpose but overlook what the question asks the clinician to clarify before making a decision. Your learning point is then about gathering the relevant information, rather than memorising another list of drug facts.
Close the module and explain which detail changed your reasoning. Later, write a fresh question about that same distinction using a different teaching situation. If you can only recall the original wording, return to the explanation and identify the underlying principle. This is an editorial study exercise you can use around a completed module, rather than a claim about an automatic Praktiki feature.
Use oncology cases to separate recognition from explanation
An oncology learner may recognise the topic immediately but struggle to explain why a case requires further assessment or which missing detail matters. Those are useful targets for discussion with a supervisor or study partner after completing the case.
Try a two-part recap. First describe what the case was asking you to decide. Then explain why a plausible alternative did not answer that question. Ask the listener which assumption remains unclear. The resulting gap can direct your next reading or question session more efficiently than revising the whole subject because one item was difficult.
Keep the recap educational and use the case’s references when you need to clarify its source. A short exercise can expose an uncertainty that deserves a longer, planned activity.
Turn a completion record into meaningful CPD
The GMC’s CPD guidance asks for learning tailored to the whole scope of practice and reflection on its effect. It does not prescribe a universal number of CPD points for revalidation. An automatic completion record therefore supplies part of the story; your reflection explains why the activity mattered.
Use three short entries: the uncertainty that prompted the activity, the correction to your understanding and your next action. The action might be discussing a process with colleagues, checking another source or returning to a related question. Describe a change in workplace practice when you have actually observed it; an intention to make a change can be recorded as an intention.
Choose meaningful activities to develop further. You do not need to turn every small learning event into a long narrative to make your record useful.
Where iatroX fits: questions, Tutor and a reviewed record
iatroX is our first complementary option when a module identifies a topic you want to practise more deliberately. Select an available exam bank or supported learning context and attempt relevant questions. Tutor works from your attempted question to examine the reasoning.
The iatroX CPD workflow connects focused questions, Tutor review and a reflection you personalise and confirm, with PDF and linked FourteenFish export. New CPD sessions and continuing Tutor use are included in paid all-access.
£29/month or £99/year in the UK; US$29/month or US$99/year elsewhere
Up to 10 new sample questions per day, shared across exams and subject to availability, with explanations and no account required.
One complete guided Tutor session is included with a verified free account; continued Tutor use is included in all-access.
Keep the Praktiki completion record for that activity and the iatroX record for the questions and reflection you actually complete. Together they can show how an initial update led to a more focused learning task. The reason to use both is that defined sequence, rather than accumulating two records of the same reading.
Build a week around one useful theme
Pick one relevant theme for the week. Complete a short case, identify its decisive distinction and reserve a later session for the part you found uncertain. End the week by explaining the point without reopening the module, then choose whether you need further practice or a different topic.
Praktiki’s short cases can provide the starting activity. A source document, colleague discussion or iatroX question session can supply the next step. Choose whichever addresses the actual gap, and keep the record concise enough that you will use it again.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Praktiki currently designed for?
Its clinician page names UK GPs and oncologists, with further specialties described as coming through society partners. Check the current catalogue for the area you want to study.
Is Praktiki Premium a paid question-bank subscription?
Its current terms describe Basic and Premium as free tiers, with Premium adding curated email alerts. That is a different product arrangement from paying for a full examination question bank.
How can I build on a completed Praktiki case with iatroX?
Identify the distinction you want to practise, select a relevant available iatroX learning context and attempt questions before discussing your reasoning with Tutor. Record the subsequent activity and learning in your own words.
Practise the learning point you want to retain
Choose a focused session in iatroX CPD, work through relevant questions and Tutor, then review the reflection that represents what you learned.