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A practical guide to the PLAB 2 resources worth using after a preparation course, from targeted feedback and peer practice to clinical simulations.

Free means five different things: an ongoing service, a restricted tier, a verification-gated offer, a trial, or employer funding. Genuinely free options including Ask-iatroX, Chat...

Advanced practitioners are a distinct audience with varied backgrounds and responsibilities. Organised around the four pillars, clinical practice, leadership, education and researc...

Choose an AI tool by what you actually need it to do, clinical answers, learning, exam preparation, simulation or documentation, rather than by an arbitrary league table. Reference...

Suitability before user counts: clinical setting, role, learning needs, source relevance and access eligibility. ChatGPT for Clinicians' US-only eligibility as a concrete example, ...

What does most used actually measure? Verified users, active users, questions answered, consultations supported and institutional access are different things. iatroX, OpenEvidence,...

iatroX has been used 1 million times by over 50,000 verified clinicians across 40 countries, primarily in the UK, including over 15% of UK GPs, according to iatroX platform data fo...

According to iatroX platform data for September 2026, over 15% of UK GPs have used iatroX. What the different jobs of general practice actually need from AI, how to inspect the sou...

Astra will commoditise a considerable amount of general reasoning, writing and research. It does not automatically commoditise trustworthy clinical products. What a foundation mode...

One platform does not have to perform every role. A five-part architecture for the GP appraisal year: capture, verify, learn, reflect and submit, mapped against every tool in this ...

Virtual-patient practice identifies performance gaps; it does not necessarily repair the underlying knowledge or verify the management. A ten-step workflow from an unseen Simsbuddy...

Unlimited access has value only when practice is paired with appropriate difficulty, valid feedback and correction. The deliberate-practice cycle, what it looks like when candidate...