Albania State Medical Exam (Provimi i Shtetit - Mjekësi) study plan

Map the Internal Medicine syllabus into a checklist of high-yield topics and tick off what you already know

Write one-page summary sheets for the top 10 inpatient syndromes (e.g., chest pain, dyspnea, fever of unknown origin)

Solve 40 Internal Medicine single-best-answer questions and log every wrong answer with the reason

Build a spaced-repetition deck of 100 Internal Medicine facts you keep forgetting

Work through cardiology and pulmonology cases end-to-end, stating diagnosis, differential, and first-line management aloud

Compare and contrast the diagnostic criteria for the 5 most tested Internal Medicine conditions in writing

Re-answer every question missed in week 1 without notes and record the pass rate

Draft 15 clinical vignettes from memory and check each against a reference

Sequence the preoperative assessment steps for a surgical patient and list the risk factors that delay surgery

Draw the pathophysiology cascade for 6 surgical emergencies (e.g., appendicitis, bowel obstruction, perforation)

Explain the indications, contraindications, and complications of the 10 most common operations

Solve 30 Surgery and 20 Pathology/Pathophysiology questions and categorize errors by cause

Outline the antenatal visit schedule and the screening tests performed at each trimester

Practice interpreting 10 obstetric scenarios (e.g., preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage) to first-line action

List pediatric milestone ages and the red flags that require referral at each well-child visit

Solve 25 Obstetrics/Gynecology and 25 Pediatrics questions and log errors

Summarize the Albanian public health reporting obligations for notifiable diseases and the roles of the responsible institutions

Describe the study designs used in epidemiology and identify which measure of association belongs to each

Apply the four principles of biomedical ethics to 8 written clinical scenarios

Solve 30 Public Health/Epidemiology and 10 Ethics questions and log errors

Build a drug-class table covering mechanism, key adverse effects, and antidote/management for the 20 most tested toxicities

Walk through 8 poisoning and overdose scenarios to decontamination and antidote decisions

Rank emergency presentations by time-to-intervention and rehearse the ABCDE approach in writing

Solve 25 Pharmacology/Toxicology and 20 Emergency Medicine questions and log errors

Convert 10 Internal Medicine topics into primary-care-appropriate pathways (screening, referral thresholds, follow-up)

Distinguish the presenting features of the 8 most common neurological emergencies and their initial management

Summarize the diagnostic criteria and first-line treatment for the major psychiatric disorders tested

Solve 25 Family Medicine and 20 Psychiatry/Neurology questions and log errors

Sit two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them

Review every missed item across all domains and re-test only those items

Re-read your summary sheets and error logs from weeks 1-7 in a single consolidation pass

Write a final list of the 20 facts you are least confident about and confirm each against a reference