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Every Canadian residency programme teaches CanMEDS, and most trainees treat the six non-Expert roles as a portfolio exercise. They are examinable competencies, and the questions th...

Most of your practice is standard vignettes with five options. The exam also contains item types your question bank barely uses, and one of them has a rule that will cost you point...

Critical review is worth fifty marks and it is the most systematically learnable third of any psychiatry exam. It yields entirely to a method, applied identically to every study, a...

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 ...

Sixteen marks of the AKT test certification, regulation, confidentiality, complaints and NHS structure. It is the most finite, most learnable content in the paper, and candidates c...

The AKT is 80 per cent clinical, 10 per cent evidence-based practice and 10 per cent organisational. That last 20 per cent is 32 marks, it is the most learnable part of the paper, ...

Ardens templates are used across most GP practices in England to standardise reviews, coding and QOF capture in EMIS and SystmOne. They are genuinely useful for reducing omissions,...

An honest map of where Australian doctors go online: news and community platforms, the distinctive HealthPathways local-guidance system, national college resources, locum agencies,...

Doctors no longer learn mainly from textbooks and formal CPD. Learning now starts with a case, a WhatsApp query, a Reddit thread or an exam failure, but that informal learning is f...

A practical, honest map of where UK doctors actually go online: doctor-only networks, public discussion, peer support, education, locum work, clinical reference and specialist advi...

The names are almost identical, but FourteenFish and Fourteen Fisherman are different things. One is the ePortfolio platform you use throughout GP training; the other is an indepen...

The MRCGP has three moving parts: the AKT, the SCA, and the portfolio, and most trainees stitch together separate tools for each. What each layer needs, the real cost of fragmentat...