PGIM MD Family Medicine study plan

Map the Domain 1 blueprint into a one-page checklist of clinical areas, then rank each area by your self-rated confidence

Diagnose and manage the five highest-yield primary care presentations (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, acute respiratory infection, low back pain, depression) by writing a 10-line workup-to-follow-up plan for each

Apply current guideline thresholds for hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes control to 20 short vignettes and score your accuracy

Build a personal error log template that records the reasoning flaw behind each wrong answer, not just the correct option

Work through red-flag and referral decisions in chest pain, headache, abdominal pain and febrile illness, writing the single feature that forces escalation for each

Compare drug choices, contraindications and monitoring requirements for the ten most commonly prescribed primary care classes

Interpret common ECG and plain radiograph findings described in text form and state the immediate management step for each

Rehearse pediatric and geriatric dosing adjustments, listing the three age-specific pitfalls that most often cause errors

Assemble the national immunization schedule into a recall table covering adult, pediatric, pregnancy and immunocompromised indications

Calculate sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value from a 2x2 table and explain how prevalence shifts predictive values

Design a screening program appraisal checklist covering lead-time bias, length bias and overdiagnosis

Outline notifiable disease reporting duties and the first three outbreak investigation steps

Distinguish study designs (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, RCT, diagnostic accuracy) by the measure of association each yields

Compute and interpret relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk and number needed to treat from worked examples

Identify selection, information and confounding bias in ten described studies and propose one mitigation for each

Explain the purpose and interpretation of confidence intervals and p-values without relying on the phrase statistically significant

Appraise a randomized trial using allocation concealment, blinding, intention-to-treat and loss to follow-up as explicit criteria

Critique a systematic review and meta-analysis for heterogeneity, publication bias and forest-plot interpretation

Apply levels of evidence and grade recommendations for a clinical question you choose

Detect spin and misleading framing in abstracts by rewriting three overstated conclusions accurately

Apply the four principles of biomedical ethics to consent, capacity, confidentiality and end-of-life scenarios

Resolve ten short ethical vignettes, writing the decisive principle and the action you would take

Describe informed consent requirements, exceptions and documentation standards for minors and adults lacking capacity

Map the referral, escalation and complaint pathways within a typical health system and state the clinician's duty at each step

Explain the components of health systems financing, workforce planning and quality improvement using a plan-do-study-act cycle

Analyze medical error and patient safety incidents through a systems lens rather than blaming individuals

Revisit your weakest Domain 1 areas from the week 1 matrix and close at least three gaps

Practice professional communication scenarios including breaking bad news and disclosing an error

Complete two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and record per-domain accuracy

Review every missed item and classify each error as knowledge, reasoning or misreading

Re-drill the twenty highest-frequency facts across all four domains using spaced repetition

Finalize an exam-day time-allocation and flag-and-return strategy