Myanmar MMLE study plan
Myanmar MMLE · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 8 hours per week
General Medicine & Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Map the General Medicine syllabus into a one-page checklist of high-yield presentations (acute febrile illness, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, renal, neurology) and mark confidence levels for each
Build a spaced-repetition deck of at least 150 items covering first-line management of common adult presentations seen in Myanmar practice
Outline the Public Health syllabus by sub-area (epidemiology, biostatistics, health systems, communicable disease control, environmental and occupational health) and list the formulas to memorise
Solve 40 mixed General Medicine and Public Health single-best-answer questions under timed conditions and log every error with its cause
Your checkpoint
One-page syllabus checklist for Domains 1 and 5 plus an error log with at least 40 entries classified by cause
General Medicine & Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Review the full General Medicine checklist and rewrite each weak topic as a one-line clinical action statement
Work through 60 epidemiological calculations (incidence, prevalence, relative risk, attributable risk, sensitivity and specificity, predictive values) without notes
Summarise national priority programmes (tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, HIV, immunisation, maternal and child health) into a single comparison table of case definition, first-line response, and notification requirement
Complete one 60-question timed block split evenly between General Medicine and Public Health and review each wrong answer against a reference text
Your checkpoint
Completed comparison table of priority public health programmes plus a scored 60-question timed block with written review notes
General Medicine & Surgery
Revise General Medicine weak areas identified in weeks 1 and 2 and convert them into 20 case-based flashcards
Build a Surgery checklist covering general surgery, trauma and resuscitation, orthopaedics, urology, and burns
Draft a decision algorithm for the acute abdomen and for shock resuscitation, including fluid, antibiotic, and referral thresholds
Practise interpreting 30 laboratory and imaging descriptions in text form (full blood count, electrolytes, urinalysis, plain radiograph findings) and state the next step for each
Your checkpoint
Two written clinical algorithms (acute abdomen, shock resuscitation) plus 30 completed text-based investigation interpretation exercises
Surgery & Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Memorise the Surgery checklist and recite the indications, contraindications, and complications of the ten most commonly tested operations
Build an Obstetrics and Gynaecology checklist covering antenatal care, labour and delivery, obstetric emergencies, gynaecological infections, and contraception
Write management pathways for postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, and obstructed labour with referral triggers
Complete a 100-question mixed Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology timed test and classify every error as knowledge, reasoning, or reading fault
Your checkpoint
Three written obstetric emergency pathways plus a scored 100-question test with an error classification table
Obstetrics and Gynaecology & Paediatrics
Revise weak Surgery topics from week 4 and reduce the error log by at least half
Build a Paediatrics checklist covering neonatal care, growth and development, immunisation, diarrhoeal disease, acute respiratory infection, and malnutrition
Write weight-based dosing and fluid calculation drills for children, including oral rehydration and maintenance fluids
Summarise integrated management of childhood illness danger signs into a one-page triage sheet
Your checkpoint
One-page paediatric danger-sign triage sheet plus a completed set of 25 weight-based dosing and fluid calculations with workings
Paediatrics & Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Revise the full Paediatrics checklist and convert each weak area into a short case vignette with a single best answer
Apply biostatistics to study design questions by working through 40 items on bias, confounding, sampling, and screening
Draft answers to 10 short-essay public health prompts on outbreak investigation, health education, and health service management
Complete a 100-question mixed Paediatrics and Public Health timed test and log errors by domain
Your checkpoint
Ten written short-essay answers plus a scored 100-question test with a per-domain error breakdown
General Medicine & Surgery & Obstetrics and Gynaecology & Paediatrics & Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Run two full-length mixed mock examinations under strict timing and record the score for each domain
Re-audit the error log across all five domains and rank the ten weakest topics for final revision
Rewrite each of the ten weakest topics into a one-page summary sheet in your own words
Rehearse rapid recall of emergency protocols (resuscitation, obstetric haemorrhage, paediatric dehydration, notifiable disease response) in three timed five-minute sessions
Your checkpoint
Two scored full-length mock examinations plus ten one-page revision summaries of the weakest topics
General Medicine & Surgery & Obstetrics and Gynaecology & Paediatrics & Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Review only the ten revision summaries and the error log, avoiding new material
Sit one final full-length mock examination and confirm each domain score is at or above your target
Practise exam-day logistics: question pacing, flagging strategy, and a plan for guessing on unknown items
Consolidate a single pre-exam sheet of formulas, drug doses, and referral thresholds for last-day reading
Your checkpoint
Final mock examination score report with a per-domain comparison against week 7, plus a completed one-page pre-exam sheet
Milestones
Week 2: Syllabus checklists for General Medicine and Public Health are complete, and a 60-question timed block is scored with every error reviewed in writing
Week 4: Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology checklists are complete, three obstetric emergency pathways are written, and a 100-question mixed test is scored with errors classified
Week 6: All five domain checklists are complete, and both the Paediatrics and Public Health error counts are lower than in the week 3 to 4 tests
Week 8: Two or more full-length mocks are scored, every domain meets the target band, and the error log shows no repeated error type from weeks 1 to 4