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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...

Three completely different things can go wrong in an ORE question, and they need three completely different remedies. Candidates who review every error the same way spend months fi...

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 ...

Occupational medicine is the specialty where the diagnosis is almost irrelevant. What matters is what this person can still do, what the job demands, and whether the gap between th...

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 DGM is a diploma for doctors who look after older people outside specialist units. The question it keeps asking is not what the diagnosis is, but whether this is new and fixabl...

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 right answer in a resus bay is frequently the wrong answer at the roadside. The Diploma in Immediate Medical Care tests whether you can practise within constraints, and candida...