Lebanon Medical Colloquium study plan

Build a one-page map of Internal Medicine subtopics (cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, hematology, infectious disease, rheumatology) and rank them by your baseline confidence.

Answer 40 mixed Internal Medicine questions under timed conditions and log each error with the underlying knowledge gap, not just the missed fact.

Rewrite the 10 highest-yield error notes as concise decision rules (trigger, next step, pitfall) and rehearse them aloud.

Draft a spaced-repetition deck limited to Internal Medicine high-yield facts and schedule daily 10-minute reviews.

Work through the two weakest Internal Medicine subtopics from week 1 using guideline-based summaries, then self-test each with 15 questions.

Practise interpreting common Internal Medicine data sets (ECG rhythm strips described in text, arterial blood gases, thyroid and renal panels) and write the stepwise interpretation you would use.

Explain aloud, in under 3 minutes each, the initial management of five high-frequency presentations such as chest pain, acute dyspnoea, upper GI bleeding, diabetic ketoacidosis, and suspected sepsis.

Re-test all week 1 missed items and record which rules held and which need revision.

Outline the Surgical domain by category (general surgery, trauma, vascular, urology, orthopaedics, perioperative assessment) and identify the three categories you know least.

Drill the acute abdomen: for ten presentations, state the likely diagnosis, the single most useful initial investigation, and the indication for operative versus conservative management.

Summarise in writing the resuscitation priorities and damage-control principles for major trauma, including when to transfuse and when to operate.

Complete 30 timed Surgery questions and convert every error into a one-line rule.

Build a Paediatrics checklist covering neonatal jaundice, febrile infant workup by age, dehydration and fluid calculation, asthma, and immunisation schedules, and self-quiz each item.

Build an Obstetrics and Gynecology checklist covering hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, postpartum haemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, contraception counselling, and abnormal uterine bleeding.

Practise five written case vignettes that require distinguishing paediatric from adult management, noting where thresholds and drug doses differ.

Answer 30 combined Paediatrics and Obstetrics/Gynecology questions and log errors by theme.

Map the Family Medicine domain around preventive care, chronic disease follow-up, screening intervals, and safe prescribing in primary care, then self-test each area with 10 questions.

Draft a screening and immunisation schedule summary for an adult patient by age band and risk factor.

Review Psychiatry essentials: depression and anxiety screening, suicide risk assessment, first-line pharmacotherapy, and criteria for urgent referral; write a short risk-assessment template.

Complete 25 combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry questions and convert errors into rules.

Rehearse a structured ABCDE approach in writing for five emergency presentations (anaphylaxis, status epilepticus, severe asthma, shock, poisoning) with drug, dose, and escalation for each.

Summarise airway assessment, induction agents, and common perioperative complications, and state the anaesthetic considerations for three comorbid states such as severe aortic stenosis, uncontrolled asthma, and raised intracranial pressure.

Answer 25 combined Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia questions under timed conditions and log errors.

Re-test all errors accumulated in weeks 1 to 5 and retire rules you now answer correctly twice.

Summarise the appropriate first-line imaging modality for 20 common clinical scenarios and note where contrast, radiation, or timing changes the choice.

Review laboratory medicine essentials: test interpretation pitfalls, sensitivity and specificity, and common artefact or false-positive causes; self-quiz with 15 items.

Build a pharmacology table of high-yield drug classes with mechanism, key adverse effect, and one clinically important interaction for each.

Complete 25 combined Radiology, Pathology/Laboratory, and Pharmacology questions and log errors by domain.

Summarise consent, capacity, confidentiality, and disclosure of errors with a worked example for each, and self-test with 10 ethics items.

Run two full-length mixed mock exams under timed conditions and score each by domain to identify residual weak areas.

Re-drill only the domains scoring below 65 percent, converting each remaining error into a final one-line rule.

Consolidate all rules into a single revision sheet and rehearse it aloud once before the exam.