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A third of Paper B is critical review, and it is not psychiatry. It is research methods, and it fails for entirely different reasons from the clinical two-thirds. Revising them as ...

Psychopharmacology is a quarter of Paper A and the domain candidates most dread. It collapses to something manageable once you stop learning drugs and start learning receptors, bec...

Half of Paper A is basic neurosciences and clinical psychopharmacology. Most candidates discover this after they have spent their revision on the psychology and the classification,...

The AKP gives you two and a half hours for sixty questions, which sounds generous until you meet the stems. This is a paper of long, information-dense vignettes, sat twice in one d...

Paediatric pharmacology is not adult pharmacology at a lower dose. The child's liver, kidney, body composition and receptors all differ, and they differ by age. Revising the drugs ...

Theory and Science looks like a basic science paper and behaves like a clinical one. It does not ask you to recite a pathway. It gives you a child and asks what the pathway predict...

The first line of a paediatric vignette gives you an age, and candidates read past it. That number is not scene-setting. It determines the normal ranges, the differential, the dose...

The Foundation of Practice paper tests whether you can look after children safely, not whether you know rare syndromes. Candidates who revise the exotic and neglect growth, develop...

The antibody is not the diagnosis. Rheumatology questions are built to punish candidates who reach for the serology first, and to reward those who describe the clinical phenotype b...

Respiratory medicine hands you numbers before it hands you a diagnosis, and the numbers are algorithmic. Candidates who interpret them in a fixed sequence answer questions that loo...

Nephrology is the second most derivable specialty in medicine. Candidates who memorise result patterns struggle. Candidates who reason from the physiology reconstruct the answer, a...

Four variables decide almost every treatment question in oncology, and candidates routinely establish three of them. The one they skip is treatment intent, and it is the one that d...