Journal

Three hundred questions, four sections, and a hundred minutes of break time you get to spend however you like. That break pool is a strategic asset, and almost every candidate wast...

The ABIM publishes exactly how many questions come from each content area, and almost nobody uses it. Weighting your study hours to the blueprint rather than to your interests is t...

In a dental emergency question, the tooth is rarely the answer. The airway is, or the bleeding is, or the patient's medication is. Candidates who reason from the tooth outwards get...

MFDS Part 1 looks like a basic science paper and is not one. It gives you a patient and asks which principle explains what is happening to them. Revising the science in isolation p...

Your dentistry travels. Your regulatory knowledge does not. ORE Part 1 has two papers, and the honest position for most overseas dentists is that they are already prepared for one ...

The DCH shares its written paper with the MRCPCH, which is useful to know: you are sitting the same Foundation of Practice exam as the paediatric trainees. What differs is the pers...

The DRCOG is not a miniature MRCOG. It is a primary care diploma, and almost every question is really asking the same thing: can you deal with this here, and if not, how quickly do...

Sexual and reproductive health is built on two things that behave identically in an exam: eligibility categories and timing rules. Both are finite, both interfere with each other, ...

Tropical medicine looks like a vast list of unfamiliar organisms. It is actually three questions asked in order, and the third one, incubation period, is the most powerful discrimi...

The Final's two written papers become one. The College's reason is candid: the multiple choice and constructed response papers were testing similar things in different formats. Wha...

From July 2027 the Primary FRCA has two components instead of three. The written paper is essentially a rename. The clinical side is a genuine restructure, and if you hold a partia...

Three sciences, one paper, and almost every candidate is strong in two of them. The physics and clinical measurement is the one that gets postponed, and it is the one that decides ...