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The GPhC CRA and MRCGP AKT test overlapping clinical knowledge from different professional perspectives. Pharmacists adopting GP trainee revision techniques — spaced repetition, ad...

Passmedicine brings its medical exam infrastructure to pharmacy — performance histograms, peer benchmarking, teaching notes. Strong analytics, but verify content currency against t...

Confirmed AKT and SCA dates, booking deadlines and a practical way to organise your MRCGP preparation for late 2026 and 2027.

Exam anxiety in MRCGP is near-universal — the high stakes make it rational. The goal isn't eliminating anxiety but managing it so it doesn't impair performance. Preparation-based c...

If your partner is also a GP trainee, you have a built-in SCA practice partner. But shared revision needs structure to avoid becoming unproductive or causing relationship friction.

Night shifts destroy revision routines. The answer isn't forcing revision during nights — it's protecting revision on non-night days and accepting that night weeks are maintenance ...

Every GP trainee revises while working full-time. The trainees who succeed treat revision as a daily habit (30-60 minutes) rather than an occasional binge. The right tools are mobi...

YouTube has significant free MRCGP content — but quality is wildly inconsistent. This guide curates the channels worth subscribing to and explains how to integrate video into a rev...

Podcasts are the most efficient revision format for commuting and gym time — but they're passive unless you engage actively. Clinitalk, GPnotebook, Arora, and several smaller shows...

Spaced repetition is the single most effective technique for long-term knowledge retention — and it's underused in MRCGP preparation. Several AKT tools incorporate it, but quality ...

Anki's spaced repetition is evidence-based and free — but its value for AKT depends on what you put in it. Make cards from wrong answers, keep them short, and focus on facts you ke...

Every SCA and AKT tool provider produces exam content. Nobody produces comprehensive, practical content on the non-exam aspects of GP training — ARCP, portfolio, audit, LTFT, OOP, ...