Egyptian Board Family Medicine study plan

Build a one-page map of the 15% Internal Medicine domain, listing each major system block (cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious disease, rheumatology, respiratory) and the weight you will give each in your revision

Solve 60 mixed internal medicine vignettes and log every wrong answer with the reason: knowledge gap, misread question, or faulty reasoning

Draft a personal primary-care approach template for the four commonest undifferentiated presentations (chest pain, dyspnea, fatigue, abdominal pain) covering red flags, initial tests and referral thresholds

Define the core principles of family medicine as a discipline, including continuity of care, comprehensiveness, first-contact care and the biopsychosocial model, and write a one-paragraph definition of each in your own words

Work through cardiology and endocrinology at higher depth, writing management algorithms for acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, diabetic ketoacidosis and thyroid dysfunction

Practice interpreting 30 laboratory and ECG-style data sets presented in text form, stating the diagnosis and next step for each

Review hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes targets and write a single comparison table of drug classes with contraindications and monitoring requirements

Re-test 20 items you got wrong in week 1 and record whether the error recurs

Construct a growth-and-development reference sheet covering milestones at 2, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months and the red flags that require referral at each age

Write management pathways for the five commonest pediatric presentations in family practice: fever without focus, acute gastroenteritis with dehydration, bronchiolitis, otitis media and asthma exacerbation

Build an antenatal care timeline covering visit schedule, screening tests by gestational age, and the warning symptoms that mandate urgent review

Summarize contraceptive options in a comparison table of efficacy, contraindications, non-contraceptive benefits and follow-up

Solve 50 combined pediatrics and women's health questions and tag each error by domain

Write a structured approach to the emergency presentations most likely to appear: shock, anaphylaxis, acute asthma, poisoning, trauma primary survey and burns fluid estimation

List the indications, contraindications and steps for ten minor procedures performed in family practice, including incision and drainage, suturing, cryotherapy and nail avulsion

Build a dermatology pattern-recognition sheet describing morphology, distribution and first-line treatment for eczema, psoriasis, tinea, acne, urticaria and drug eruptions

Practice describing skin lesions in text only, since no images are available, and write ten such descriptions with a diagnosis for each

Complete 40 emergency and dermatology questions under timed conditions

Map the psychiatric domain by writing screening questions and first-line management for depression, anxiety, somatization and alcohol misuse in primary care

Draft a suicide risk assessment framework with documented questions, risk stratification and referral criteria

Summarize geriatric syndromes: falls, delirium, dementia, polypharmacy, incontinence and frailty, with a screening tool and one management step for each

Write a palliative care plan outline covering pain ladder prescribing, opioid conversion, advance care planning and family communication

Solve 40 combined psychiatry and geriatrics questions and identify the two weakest subtopics

Compute and interpret sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, likelihood ratios and number needed to treat from ten worked examples you construct yourself

Design a small screening evaluation exercise: choose one screening programme, state the target population, interval, test, recall pathway and the biases that could distort its apparent benefit

Write a one-page summary of study designs and the level of evidence each provides, with the main bias affecting each

Apply the criteria for a good screening test to three Egyptian public health priorities and justify your ranking

Complete 40 community medicine and biostatistics questions with calculations shown in full

Write position statements on six ethical scenarios: consent in a minor, breaking confidentiality, refusing futile treatment, resource allocation, disclosing an error, and conflict of interest in referral

Summarize the medico-legal requirements for documentation, certification of death, reporting notifiable disease and handling a complaint

Draft a personal quality improvement cycle for your own practice using a measurable indicator, a baseline, an intervention and a re-measurement plan

Practice critically appraising one published primary-care study by writing a structured summary of design, validity threats and applicability to your patients

Review the audit and evidence-based medicine terminology list and self-test on 30 terms

Sit two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and record the score and error pattern for each

Re-read only your own error logs and condensed sheets, not new material, and convert each recurring error into a one-line rule

Rehearse the top 20 high-yield facts across all domains using spaced recall over three separate days

Confirm practical exam logistics: identification, timing per question, allowed materials and the strategy for flagged questions