Arab Board IM Final Written case studies

The Arab Board of Internal Medicine Final Written Examination is the written component of the specialty certification pathway for physicians training in internal medicine across the Arab region. It is intended for residents who have completed or are nearing completion of an accredited internal medicine training programme and who are preparing for consultant-level practice. The paper is a single best answer multiple choice examination that samples broadly across the discipline, with the largest shares given to cardiology, gastroenterology and hepatology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, and general internal medicine and geriatrics, and smaller shares to nephrology, haematology and oncology, rheumatology, neurology, pulmonology, dermatology and clinical pharmacology, and critical care and emergency medicine. Questions are typically applied rather than recall-based: a short clinical vignette followed by a question about the next step, the most likely diagnosis, or the best initial management. The Arab Board IM Final Written case studies are 5 cases and about 3,670 words.