Arab Board Family Medicine Part 1 study plan
Arab Board Family Medicine Part 1 · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Internal Medicine
Map the Internal Medicine syllabus into a checklist of high-yield topics and rank them by exam weight
Build a spaced-repetition deck covering the top 60 Internal Medicine facts and start daily reviews
Work through 40 Internal Medicine practice questions and write a one-line rationale for every missed item
Your checkpoint
A dated Internal Medicine topic checklist plus a scored baseline set of 40 questions with a written error log
Internal Medicine
Explain the diagnostic approach to the common cardiology and respiratory presentations aloud without notes
Compare first-line management options for hypertension, diabetes, and asthma in a one-page table
Complete 60 mixed Internal Medicine questions under timed conditions and categorize each error as knowledge, reasoning, or reading
Your checkpoint
A one-page comparative management table plus a timed 60-question score with error categories tallied
Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
Consolidate the remaining Internal Medicine subtopics (renal, endocrine, hematology, GI) into summary cards
Build a pediatric growth-and-development milestone reference covering ages 0-5 years
Answer 30 Pediatrics questions and flag every item involving immunization schedules or developmental red flags
Your checkpoint
A completed Internal Medicine summary card set and a Pediatrics milestone reference sheet with 30 answered questions logged
Pediatrics & Obstetrics and Gynecology
Practice interpreting pediatric fluid, electrolyte, and dosing calculations until accurate without references
Outline the antenatal care schedule and list screening tests by trimester
Solve 30 combined Pediatrics and Obstetrics questions and record time per item
Your checkpoint
A calculation worksheet with worked solutions plus a trimester-by-trimester antenatal screening grid
Obstetrics and Gynecology & Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties
Summarize the management of the leading obstetric emergencies in a decision-flow format
List the indications, contraindications, and complications for the core general surgery procedures
Complete 50 mixed Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Surgery questions and log all missed concepts
Your checkpoint
An obstetric emergency decision-flow sheet and a surgery procedure summary table with a 50-question error log
Psychiatry and Behavioral Health & Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology
Differentiate the first-line approaches to depression, anxiety, and psychosis using a comparison grid
Calculate and interpret incidence, prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values from worked examples
Design a short screening-and-counseling script for a behavioral health presentation in primary care
Your checkpoint
A psychiatry comparison grid plus a biostatistics worked-problem set with all answers verified
Emergency and Acute Care & Basic and Clinical Sciences Applied to Family Medicine
Run through the ABCDE approach for the major acute presentations and note the first three actions for each
Connect core physiology and pharmacology principles to at least ten common family medicine scenarios
Complete 50 timed Emergency and basic-science questions and review every explanation
Your checkpoint
An acute-care action card set and a physiology-pharmacology linkage sheet with a timed 50-question score
Professionalism, Ethics, Communication and Health Systems & Internal Medicine & Pediatrics & Obstetrics and Gynecology
Apply an ethical decision framework to consent, confidentiality, and capacity scenarios in written practice cases
Re-run the highest-error topics from weeks 1-7 using spaced-repetition review only
Sit two full-length mixed mock exams under exam conditions and analyze performance by domain
Your checkpoint
Two completed mock exam score reports with a per-domain accuracy breakdown and a final revision priority list
Milestones
Week 2: Achieve at least 60% on a timed 60-question Internal Medicine set and show a written error log covering every miss
Week 4: Achieve at least 65% on a mixed 60-question set spanning Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics, with calculations completed without references
Week 6: Score at least 70% on a 50-question combined Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine set, including all biostatistics items correct
Week 8: Score at least 70% overall on both full-length mock exams with no single domain below 60%