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NDEB AFK study plan

NDEB AFK · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Behavioural, Social and Public Health Sciences & Biomedical Sciences

  • Map the AFK blueprint weights to a weekly topic calendar for all three domains

  • Build one-page summary sheets for epidemiology measures, study designs, and biostatistics tests

  • Answer 40 mixed behavioural/social/public-health questions and tag each miss by cause

  • Create a 60-card spaced-repetition deck covering health promotion models and disease-prevention levels

Your checkpoint

A dated 8-week calendar plus a 60-card deck and an error log containing 40 tagged questions

Week 2

Behavioural, Social and Public Health Sciences & Biomedical Sciences

  • Explain the Transtheoretical Model, Health Belief Model, and social-cognitive theory using original clinical examples

  • Apply sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios to 10 constructed screening scenarios

  • Summarise oral epidemiology indicators and public-health policy concepts in a two-page outline

  • Complete 50 domain-3 questions under a 60-minute timer and review every rationale

Your checkpoint

A 10-scenario biostatistics worksheet scored against answer keys, with a written correction for each error

Week 3

Biomedical Sciences

  • Draw and label a systems map linking anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the head and neck

  • Compare innate and adaptive immunity and apply antimicrobial mechanisms to oral infections

  • Relate pharmacology principles to drugs used in dentistry, including interactions and adverse effects

  • Answer 50 domain-1 questions and record confidence ratings before checking answers

Your checkpoint

A completed systems map plus a 50-question domain-1 score report with confidence-calibration notes

Week 4

Biomedical Sciences & Clinical Dental Sciences

  • Integrate biomedical mechanisms into clinical diagnosis by writing 15 mechanism-to-sign/symptom chains

  • Review caries, periodontal disease, and pulpal pathology through 30 case-based questions

  • Identify the five weakest subtopics from all error logs and schedule targeted review blocks

  • Complete a 100-question mixed timed block covering domains 1, 2, and 3

Your checkpoint

A timed 100-question mixed block scored at 65% or higher, with a written error taxonomy

Week 5

Clinical Dental Sciences

  • Diagnose 25 clinical vignettes by selecting the most likely condition and justifying the choice

  • Compare treatment options for common restorative, endodontic, and periodontal presentations

  • Interpret radiographic and clinical findings described in text-only cases

  • Answer 60 domain-2 questions and rewrite each missed concept in one sentence

Your checkpoint

A 25-vignette diagnosis log with justified answers and a one-sentence correction for every miss

Week 6

Clinical Dental Sciences & Behavioural, Social and Public Health Sciences

  • Construct sequential treatment plans for 10 medically complex patients

  • Apply behavioural counselling and informed-consent principles to 10 clinical communication scenarios

  • Review emergency management and prescription-writing decisions using text-based cases

  • Complete 80 mixed clinical and behavioural questions with a 70% target

Your checkpoint

A 10-patient treatment-planning workbook plus an 80-question score report showing at least 70%

Week 7

Biomedical Sciences & Clinical Dental Sciences & Behavioural, Social and Public Health Sciences

  • Re-test every item in the error log and retire concepts answered correctly twice

  • Complete two 150-question timed mock exams under exam-day conditions

  • Analyse mock-exam timing, question-stem misreads, and domain-level accuracy

  • Condense high-yield facts into a single two-page rapid-review sheet

Your checkpoint

Two scored 150-question mocks with a domain-accuracy table and a completed two-page rapid-review sheet

Week 8

Biomedical Sciences & Clinical Dental Sciences & Behavioural, Social and Public Health Sciences

  • Complete two full-length timed simulations and review only flagged and missed items

  • Recite the rapid-review sheet from memory and fill gaps within 24 hours

  • Practice 30 rapid text-only diagnosis and calculation items to build pacing

  • Finalise a one-page exam-day checklist covering timing, guessing strategy, and breaks

Your checkpoint

Two full-length simulation scores at or above the passing threshold plus a completed exam-day checklist

Milestones

Week 4: Score at least 65% on the first timed 100-question mixed block and document five weakest subtopics

Week 6: Score at least 70% on an 80-question clinical/behavioural block and complete all 10 treatment plans

Week 8: Score at or above the passing threshold on both full-length simulations and demonstrate that every error-log item has been retested