Kuwait Board Family Medicine study plan

Map the Adult Medicine domain into 12 disease clusters (hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, asthma/COPD, thyroid, CKD, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, anaemia, osteoarthritis, GERD, depression overlap) and allocate study slots to each

Build one-page management algorithms for hypertension, type 2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia using Kuwait-relevant thresholds and local formulary first-line agents

Practise 15 patient-centred consultation questions (agenda setting, ICE, shared decision making, motivational interviewing) and record which phrases you will reuse

Complete 40 adult medicine single-best-answer questions and log every wrong answer with the underlying knowledge gap

Work through chronic kidney disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation including drug dosing in renal impairment and anticoagulation decisions

Summarise the stepped management of asthma and COPD, including inhaler technique teaching points and when to step up or refer

Rehearse interpretation of common lab panels (thyroid function, iron studies, HbA1c, lipids, liver enzymes) against clinical vignettes

Answer 50 mixed adult medicine questions under timed conditions and review each explanation

Build a growth-and-development checklist covering the routine well-child visits from birth to 5 years, including immunisation schedule checkpoints

List the red-flag features that separate common paediatric infections from serious illness in a febrile child and practise applying them to 10 vignettes

Outline antenatal care contacts, routine screening in pregnancy and the recognition of pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes and postpartum haemorrhage

Summarise contraception options with absolute contraindications and the approach to abnormal uterine bleeding by age group

Complete 40 combined child health and women's health questions and annotate the rationale for each answer

Rank the emergency presentations by frequency in family practice (chest pain, dyspnoea, syncope, anaphylaxis, sepsis, acute asthma, hypoglycaemia, stroke) and write a first-10-minutes action list for each

Demonstrate the criteria for safe outpatient management versus immediate referral or ambulance transfer for each emergency presentation

Summarise the assessment and initial management of common musculoskeletal complaints (low back pain, shoulder pain, knee osteoarthritis, ankle sprain) including when imaging is indicated

Describe the approach to common skin problems (eczema, psoriasis, fungal infection, cellulitis, benign lesions) and the indications and technique for incision and drainage, suturing and cryotherapy

Complete 40 emergency and musculoskeletal/skin questions with a written reflection on any procedure-related gaps

Apply a structured comprehensive geriatric assessment to two written case vignettes, covering falls, cognition, continence, polypharmacy and function

Build a deprescribing and polypharmacy review checklist including anticholinergic burden and renal dosing in older adults

Summarise the recognition and first-line management of depression, anxiety, insomnia and somatic symptom disorder in primary care, including suicide risk assessment

Outline when and how to refer to mental health services and the local legal framework for involuntary assessment

Answer 40 combined older adult and mental health questions and record the reasoning for each distractor you rejected

Assemble the screening and immunisation schedule relevant to Kuwait for adults and children, noting age thresholds and recall intervals

Calculate and interpret sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, relative risk, odds ratio, number needed to treat and confidence intervals from short clinical scenarios

Appraise one primary study for validity, bias and applicability using a structured checklist

Apply the GRADE-style language of strength of recommendation when deciding whether to change practice

Complete 30 preventive medicine and evidence-based practice questions with calculations shown

Work through consent, capacity, confidentiality, breaking bad news and disclosing error using four written ethical scenarios, writing what you would say verbatim

Describe the components of a significant event analysis and a root cause analysis, and apply one to a fictional primary-care incident

Summarise the structure of a primary care quality improvement cycle including audit, PDSA and key performance indicators

Explain the roles of the multidisciplinary team and the referral pathways within the local health system

Answer 30 professionalism, ethics and practice management questions and note the ethical principle behind each answer

Revisit every logged error from weeks 1 to 7 and rewrite the corrected fact in your own words

Sit two full-length mixed mock examinations under timed conditions and score them by domain

Target the two lowest-scoring domains with a focused 90-minute review each

Rehearse a structured consultation aloud for three common presentations, timing each to 10 minutes

Finalise a one-page pre-exam summary sheet of numbers, thresholds and red flags