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KMPDC Council Exams study plan

KMPDC Council Exams · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Registration and Licensing of Practitioners

  • Map the full practitioner registration pathway from application to licensure, listing each statutory step, the responsible body, and the document required at each stage

  • Explain the distinction between provisional, full, and specialist registration, and state the practice rights and supervision conditions attached to each

  • Draft a one-page comparison of registration categories with the eligibility criteria, renewal cycle, and retention requirements for each

  • Identify the grounds on which an application may be refused, deferred, or referred for inquiry, and note the procedural fairness steps owed to the applicant

Your checkpoint

A completed registration-pathway flowchart covering all categories, with a 300-word annotation of refusal and appeal routes

Week 2

Registration and Licensing of Practitioners

  • Summarise the continuing professional development obligations tied to licence retention, including minimum credits, acceptable activity types, and audit consequences

  • Describe the disciplinary and licence-restriction mechanisms that follow registration, distinguishing interim suspension from final sanction

  • Build a table of practitioner obligations on change of status: address change, scope change, return from absence, and death or incapacity notification

  • Explain how foreign-trained applicants are assessed, including verification of qualifications and any bridging or competency requirements

Your checkpoint

A 15-item self-written question set on registration and licensing, with model answers and cited authority for each answer

Week 3

Registration and Licensing of Health Facilities

  • Trace the facility registration lifecycle from pre-application inspection through certificate issue, variation, and closure

  • Classify health facilities by level and service scope, and state the minimum staffing, equipment, and infrastructure thresholds for each class

  • List the documentation a facility must submit at application stage and explain the purpose of each document

  • Describe the inspection criteria used to verify compliance before a licence is granted or renewed

Your checkpoint

A facility registration checklist covering every submission item and inspection criterion, formatted for use as a revision aid

Week 4

Registration and Licensing of Health Facilities & Compliance, Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Explain the conditions attached to a facility licence and the process for seeking variation when services or capacity change

  • Outline the enforcement ladder for non-compliant facilities, from advisory notice through suspension to cancellation, with the procedural steps at each rung

  • Describe the practitioner-side ethical duties that intersect with facility licensing, including admitting rights, delegation, and supervision of unlicensed staff

  • Distinguish clinical governance responsibilities of the facility from the personal accountability of the attending practitioner

Your checkpoint

A side-by-side enforcement comparison of facility sanctions and practitioner sanctions, showing trigger, process, and appeal route for each

Week 5

Approval of Medical and Dental Training Institutions

  • Map the accreditation pathway for medical and dental training institutions, from initial application through site evaluation to approval and periodic review

  • State the core standards against which curricula, faculty qualifications, teaching facilities, and clinical placement sites are assessed

  • Explain the student assessment and progression requirements an approved institution must maintain, including examination integrity safeguards

  • Describe how accreditation status affects graduate eligibility for registration

Your checkpoint

A standards-mapping document that pairs each accreditation criterion with the evidence an institution would typically present

Week 6

Approval of Medical and Dental Training Institutions & Compliance, Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Outline the process for accreditation withdrawal or conditional approval, including the institution's right to respond and any teach-out obligations for enrolled students

  • Describe the approval route for new programmes, major curriculum revisions, and additional training sites

  • Apply the core ethical principles of the profession to three realistic scenarios involving conflicts of interest, consent, and confidentiality

  • Explain the complaints and inquiry process against practitioners from complaint lodgement through hearing to determination and penalty

Your checkpoint

Three written case analyses of ethical scenarios, each ending with a reasoned determination and the applicable principle

Week 7

Compliance, Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Summarise the professional conduct standards governing advertising, referral arrangements, fees, and boundary-setting with patients

  • Explain the duties around record-keeping, informed consent, and disclosure of adverse events, and identify common failure points

  • Describe how impairment, health, and performance concerns are handled separately from misconduct allegations

  • Draft concise answers to the most commonly tested ethical dilemmas, practising the structure of issue, principle, application, and conclusion

Your checkpoint

A one-page ethics decision framework with a worked example, plus 10 timed practice answers

Week 8

Registration and Licensing of Practitioners & Registration and Licensing of Health Facilities & Approval of Medical and Dental Training Institutions & Compliance, Ethics and Professional Practice

  • Complete two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and score each by domain

  • Revisit the two weakest domains and rewrite the notes for each into a single condensed revision sheet

  • Recite the key statutory timelines, thresholds, and procedural steps from memory without reference to notes

  • Review every previously missed question and confirm the corrected reasoning for each

Your checkpoint

A scored mock-exam report with a targeted final-week revision sheet covering all four domains

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on the self-written registration question set and explain every wrong answer aloud without notes

Week 4: Produce the facility registration checklist and enforcement comparison from memory in under 30 minutes, then verify against source material

Week 6: Complete all three ethics case analyses with a defensible determination and correctly named principle in each

Week 8: Achieve at least 65% overall on both timed mocks, with no single domain below 55%