Egyptian Board Family Medicine study guide
Egyptian Board Family Medicine · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Egyptian Board in Family Medicine is the national specialty qualification for physicians who intend to practise comprehensive, continuing, community-based primary care in Egypt. It is aimed at graduates who have completed internship and are training in family medicine, and at practising primary care physicians who want a recognised specialist credential. The Egyptian Board Family Medicine study guide has 12 sections and about 6,359 words.
01Family Medicine Principles and Primary Care Practice
Family medicine is the specialty of first-contact, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated care for individuals and families in their community context. The Egyptian Board tests whether you can apply those principles to undifferentiated presentations rather than recite diagnoses: expect items on consultation models, continuity, referral decisions, home visits, family genograms and professional boundaries.
418 words, about 2 min02Internal Medicine in Family Practice
Internal medicine is the largest clinical slice of family practice: hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, anaemia, thyroid disease, chronic kidney disease and common infections. The Board tests control targets, safe prescribing in pregnancy and comorbidity, complication screening and recognition of the red flags that demand referral.
413 words, about 2 min03Pediatrics and Child Health
Paediatric primary care covers growth and development surveillance, immunisation, nutrition, and the integrated management of the sick child. The Board favours questions on danger signs, dehydration grading, neonatal jaundice, breastfeeding and developmental milestones.
405 words, about 2 min04Obstetrics and Gynecology / Women's Health
This domain covers antenatal care, common obstetric emergencies, contraception and gynaecological problems that present in the family health unit. The Board tests risk stratification, recognition of the dangerous triad of bleeding, hypertension and infection, and safe prescribing in pregnancy.
377 words, about 2 min05Surgery
Family physicians see undifferentiated abdominal pain, hernias, wounds and burns, and must decide who can be managed at the unit and who needs a surgical referral. The Board tests systematic assessment, scoring tools and safe initial management rather than operative technique.
399 words, about 2 min06Orthopedics and Emergency Care
This domain covers the first hour of emergency care and musculoskeletal problems that present to the health unit: fractures, dislocations, back pain, anaphylaxis, chest pain, stroke and hypoglycaemia. The Board tests structured primary survey, safe splinting and indications for transfer.
374 words, about 2 min07Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Mental health problems fill primary care: depression, anxiety, somatisation, harmful alcohol or substance use, and the first episode of psychosis. The Board tests recognition, suicide risk assessment, safe first-line prescribing and knowledge of when compulsory care is lawful.
380 words, about 2 min08Community Medicine
Community medicine asks you to think about populations, not just patients: determinants of health, primary health care organisation, community diagnosis and the structure of the Egyptian health system. The Board tests definitions, levels of prevention and how a family health unit plans for its catchment population.
405 words, about 2 min09Epidemiology and Biostatistics
This domain tests whether you can read a paper and a population table critically: measures of frequency and association, study designs, bias, validity of screening tests and basic inference. Questions are usually short calculations with one conceptual trap.
398 words, about 2 min10Preventive Medicine
Preventive medicine in family practice covers immunisation beyond childhood, post-exposure prophylaxis, chemoprophylaxis, notification of communicable disease and occupational health. The Board tests schedules, doses, timing and the difference between active and passive immunity.
409 words, about 2 min11Screening and Health Promotion
Screening is testing apparently healthy people to detect disease earlier, and health promotion is enabling people to increase control over their health. The Board tests the criteria a screening programme must satisfy, the biases that mislead, and the behaviour-change models used in the consultation.
427 words, about 2 min12Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Geriatrics is about function and complexity, not single diseases: atypical presentation, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, falls, cognitive impairment and continence. Palliative care adds symptom control and goals-of-care conversations.
1,954 words, about 10 min