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The most common PLAB 1 trap is not a wrong diagnosis. It is a right answer offered at the wrong moment. How to separate immediate, initial, definitive and follow-up management, and...

Most PLAB 1 candidates use a question bank in one undifferentiated mode: grind questions until the exam. A three-stage structure, coverage first, then UK calibration, then simulati...

Most PLAB 1 errors are not knowledge failures. They are UK-practice failures: you knew the medicine, but not the UK rule. A review method that separates the two, so you stop treati...

AI is increasingly used to score OSCE performance, from written notes to live communication to physical examination technique. The research shows something more nuanced than pass o...

In April 2026 the Medical Council of Canada released two new videos and three sample cases to help candidates prepare for the NAC Examination. What they actually cover, why officia...

From 2026 the AMC has slightly raised the underlying cut score for the CAT MCQ Examination. The reported pass mark is still 250 on the same 0 to 500 scale, and nothing about the ex...

BMJ OnExamination has publicly disclosed a six-stage process for using AI to help write exam questions, with human clinical experts at both ends. It is a rare piece of transparency...

On 8 July 2026, Ortivus announced a partnership integrating TORTUS's ambient AI documentation into MobiMed, the pre-hospital record platform used by over 12,000 paramedics. Why amb...

NHS England is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff by October 2026, after a 30,000-person trial reported an average 43 minutes of admin time saved per day. What was ...

A June 2026 Nature Medicine study found general-purpose frontier models beat OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI on every evaluation. Weeks later, a preprint using 620 real OpenEvi...

AI Overviews now answer many medical questions at the top of Google, with citations. But a synthesised summary that names sources is not the same as a clinically validated, UK-rele...

DoxGPT, now Doximity Ask, is a free HIPAA-compliant AI assistant for verified US physicians, with clinical answers, drug monographs and physician-verified citations. But it is US-o...