Israel Medical Licensing Exam study guide
Israel Medical Licensing Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Israeli medical licensure examination (בחינת רישוי ברפואה) is the assessment pathway through which physicians obtain a licence to practise medicine in Israel. Licensing is administered by the Ministry of Health (משרד הבריאות), which the official government portal describes as responsible for public health and for the systems that prevent and diagnose disease, treat patients and promote health, and whose activity focuses on legislation, licensing of services and professionals, and setting standards. The Israel Medical Licensing Exam study guide has 10 sections and about 2,988 words.
01Internal Medicine
Internal medicine supplies the largest block of the Israeli licensing written examination, and its vignettes are usually short Hebrew-language scenarios with conventional-unit laboratory values. What is tested is not recall of guidelines but the chain from syndrome to prioritized differential to the single next best action.
359 words, about 2 min02Surgery
General surgery, trauma and perioperative care are examined through "next step" questions: the vignette gives you a stable or unstable patient and asks what you do now. Israeli papers often reuse the same few scenarios - appendicitis, acute cholecystitis, diverticulitis, bowel obstruction, strangulated hernia, and blunt abdominal trauma.
340 words, about 2 min03Pediatrics
Pediatric questions are age-weighted: the younger the child, the lower the threshold for investigation. Expect febrile infants, bronchiolitis, dehydration, neonatal jaundice, growth and immunization schedules, and developmental milestones.
311 words, about 2 min04Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics dominates this domain: hypertensive disorders, hemorrhage, preterm labor, and the acute abdomen in pregnancy. Gynecology adds ectopic pregnancy, contraception, cervical screening and gynecologic oncology.
308 words, about 2 min05Psychiatry
Psychiatry is tested through risk assessment, the boundary between psychiatric and organic illness, psychotropic safety, and Israeli mental health law. Vignettes often end with "what is the next step?" First-episode psychosis: exclude organic causes - glucose, thyroid function, toxicology, infection, and neuroimaging if focal signs or sudden onset.
318 words, about 2 min06Family Medicine
Family medicine overlaps general internal medicine but is distinguished by prevention, chronic-disease follow-up, multimorbidity and continuity. Questions often ask for the "most appropriate screening" or the "next step in the asymptomatic patient".
294 words, about 1 min07Neurology
Neurology questions cluster around stroke, seizures, headache red flags and neuromuscular emergencies. The exam rewards quick recognition and time-critical decisions.
268 words, about 1 min08Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Anesthesia and intensive care is examined through preoperative assessment, airway management, sepsis and mechanical ventilation. Expect values: ventilator settings, vasopressor doses, and the sequence of resuscitation.
251 words, about 1 min09Public Health and Epidemiology
Public health and epidemiology test the arithmetic of screening, study design, bias, and the structure of the Israeli health system. Incidence counts new cases; prevalence counts all existing cases.
275 words, about 1 min10Medical Ethics and Law
Ethics and law questions use a short dilemma and ask for the most appropriate action. They test the Patient's Rights Law, capacity, confidentiality, end-of-life rules and mandatory reporting.
264 words, about 1 min