MOH GP Competitive Appointment Exam study plan
MOH GP Competitive Appointment Exam · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
General practice clinical knowledge and patient care
Map Domain 1 into its high-yield clusters (acute presentations, common infections, dermatology, musculoskeletal, ENT/eye, women's and men's health) and rank each cluster by your current confidence
Work through 60 single-best-answer items on acute adult presentations and record the reasoning error behind every miss, not just the correct option
Draft a one-page diagnostic framework for chest pain, breathlessness and abdominal pain covering red flags that mandate same-day referral or emergency escalation
Build a personal error log template with columns for topic, error type (knowledge gap, misread stem, guideline drift, over-thinking) and review date
Your checkpoint
A ranked Domain 1 topic map plus a completed error log covering at least 60 attempted items
General practice clinical knowledge and patient care
Revise antimicrobial prescribing for common primary care infections (upper respiratory, urinary, skin and soft tissue) and state first-line choice, duration and when not to prescribe
Practise 40 items on dermatology and musculoskeletal presentations, writing the discriminating feature that separates the top two differentials for each
Summarise paediatric and pregnancy prescribing cautions that commonly appear as distractor options
Re-attempt every item missed in Week 1 without looking at notes and log which errors persisted
Your checkpoint
A two-page antimicrobial quick-reference sheet plus a re-test accuracy figure for Week 1 misses
Chronic disease management and preventive care
Convert the major chronic disease guidelines (diabetes, hypertension, lipids, asthma/COPD) into target-and-step tables you can recall without reference
Work through 50 items on chronic disease management, tagging each to the guideline step it tests
Define the screening and vaccination schedule you must be able to state for adults and children in a Singapore primary care setting
Identify the five chronic conditions where you most often confuse monitoring intervals and write the correct intervals from memory
Your checkpoint
A target-and-step table for four chronic conditions plus a screening and vaccination schedule card
Chronic disease management and preventive care & General practice clinical knowledge and patient care
Complete two timed mixed blocks of 50 items spanning Domains 1 and 2 under exam pacing to build stamina and time allocation
Analyse block results by domain and subtopic, and rank your ten weakest subtopics across both domains
Write a short management plan for five complex patients with multimorbidity, stating what you would prioritise and why
Rehearse counselling scripts for lifestyle change, medication adherence and smoking cessation that you could deliver in a consultation
Your checkpoint
A ranked list of ten weak subtopics with a written remediation action for each
Singapore primary care regulatory and professional standards
Outline the regulatory framework governing general practice in Singapore, including clinic licensing, medical registration, prescribing and dispensing rules, and mandatory notifications
Summarise the professional and ethical standards expected of a GP, covering consent, confidentiality, record keeping and referral obligations
Work through 50 items on regulatory and professional standards and note which instrument or authority each question hinges on
List the documentation you must keep and the retention expectations for common primary care records
Your checkpoint
A one-page regulatory and professional standards summary organised by authority and obligation
Patient safety, communication and ethics in general practice
Work through 50 items on patient safety, communication and ethics, grouping errors by theme (consent, capacity, boundaries, error disclosure, complaints)
Draft a structured approach to breaking bad news and to disclosing a clinical error to a patient
Define the steps you would take when a patient lacks capacity or refuses recommended treatment
Identify the communication pitfalls that most often make an option wrong in ethics items and write a checklist to screen them
Your checkpoint
A communication and ethics decision checklist covering consent, capacity, disclosure and refusal
Singapore primary care regulatory and professional standards & Patient safety, communication and ethics in general practice
Complete two timed mixed blocks of 50 items spanning Domains 3 and 4, simulating exam conditions with no interruptions
Revisit every item missed across Weeks 1 to 6 that remains unresolved and close each gap with a written correction
Practise ten scenario-based ethics and safety cases aloud, justifying your chosen action against the relevant standard
Audit your error log for recurring error types and write a targeted countermeasure for your top three
Your checkpoint
A closed-gap register showing each previously missed item resolved with a written correction
General practice clinical knowledge and patient care & Chronic disease management and preventive care & Singapore primary care regulatory and professional standards & Patient safety, communication and ethics in general practice
Sit two full-length timed mock exams and record domain-level scores for each
Review every mock error and classify it as knowledge, reasoning or pacing, then fix the pacing errors with a timing strategy
Recite your quick-reference sheets from memory and correct any drift from the source standards
Finalise a one-page exam-day plan covering time per item, flagging rules and a strategy for uncertain items
Your checkpoint
Two completed mock exam score reports with a final one-page exam-day plan
Milestones
Week 2: Domain 1 self-test accuracy of at least 70 per cent, with every miss logged and categorised by error type
Week 4: Timed mixed-block score of at least 65 per cent across Domains 1 and 2, with a written ranked list of ten weak subtopics
Week 6: Domain 3 and Domain 4 practice accuracy of at least 70 per cent each, and both summary sheets completed from memory without notes
Week 8: Full-length mock scores of at least 75 per cent overall with no domain below 65 per cent, plus a finished exam-day plan