Mongolia Physician Licensing Exam study plan
Mongolia Physician Licensing Exam · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Internal Medicine
Build a one-page diagnostic algorithm sheet for the six highest-yield internal medicine presentations (chest pain, dyspnea, fever of unknown origin, acute abdominal pain, altered consciousness, edema) and recite each algorithm aloud from memory by week's end.
Work through 120 internal medicine multiple-choice items covering cardiology and pulmonology, and log every wrong answer with the underlying reasoning error rather than just the correct option.
Create a spaced-repetition deck of 150 internal medicine facts (drug of choice, classic lab pattern, first-line test) and review it on five separate days.
Draft a personal formula sheet for internal medicine calculations (anion gap, corrected sodium, creatinine clearance, CURB-65, Wells score) and verify each formula against a standard textbook.
Your checkpoint
A dated error log of 120 cardiology/pulmonology items with a written one-line reason for each miss, plus a 150-card deck created and reviewed on at least five days.
Internal Medicine
Complete 120 internal medicine items in endocrinology, nephrology, gastroenterology, and hematology, and re-test every item missed in week 1 to confirm retention above 80%.
Explain aloud, in under three minutes each, the initial workup and immediate management of diabetic ketoacidosis, acute kidney injury, upper GI bleeding, and severe anemia.
Summarize in writing the five most common internal medicine emergencies where the first 30 minutes change outcome, and state the first three actions for each.
Review the week 1 spaced-repetition deck daily and retire cards answered correctly three times in a row.
Your checkpoint
A two-page internal medicine emergency action card (five conditions, three first actions each) written from memory, plus a week-1 retest score of at least 80%.
Surgery
Map the surgical workup of acute abdomen by quadrant, listing the first-line imaging study and the operative indication for each of the eight most common causes.
Complete 90 surgery items covering trauma, wound care, hernia, biliary disease, and appendicitis, and classify each error as knowledge gap, misread stem, or reasoning slip.
Recite the ATLS-style primary survey sequence and the immediate management of hemorrhagic shock, tension pneumothorax, and cardiac tamponade without notes.
Outline preoperative risk assessment (ASA class, cardiac risk indices, anticoagulation bridging) in a one-page summary.
Your checkpoint
A completed acute abdomen decision table (eight causes, imaging, operative indication) plus a 90-item surgery error log with error-type classification.
Obstetrics and Gynecology & Pediatrics
Build a timeline-based reference for normal labor, the three stages of delivery, and the four most common obstetric emergencies (postpartum hemorrhage, preeclampsia/eclampsia, shoulder dystocia, cord prolapse), stating the first three actions for each.
Complete 60 obstetrics and gynecology items and 60 pediatrics items, logging every miss with the guideline or mechanism that resolves it.
Write a pediatric dosing and danger-sign quick card covering dehydration assessment, febrile infant workup by age, and the three pediatric emergencies most often tested.
Compare obstetric and pediatric red flags side by side in a single table to reduce cross-domain confusion.
Your checkpoint
A combined obstetric and pediatric red-flag table (at least 15 entries) plus a 120-item error log from the two domains.
Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology & Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
Construct a notifiable-disease and isolation-precautions reference covering tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, HIV, brucellosis, and measles, including incubation period, transmission route, and reporting obligation for each.
Complete 60 infectious disease and epidemiology items plus 60 emergency medicine and critical care items, and record every miss with the corrected fact.
Recite the sepsis bundle sequence, the shock differentiation framework, and the ACLS rhythm-to-treatment mapping from memory in a single timed session.
Interpret five sets of arterial blood gases without reference material and check each answer against a systematic stepwise method.
Your checkpoint
A completed notifiable-disease table (five diseases, four columns each) and a timed 120-item error log covering infectious disease, epidemiology, emergency medicine, and critical care.
Primary Care and Family Medicine & Pharmacology and Rational Drug Use
Draft a primary care screening and immunization schedule by age band, covering the preventive services most likely to be tested.
Complete 60 primary care and family medicine items plus 60 pharmacology items, classifying each pharmacology error as mechanism, interaction, contraindication, or dosing.
Build a drug-safety reference for ten high-alert medications, listing indication, key contraindication, major interaction, and monitoring parameter for each.
Apply the principles of rational prescribing by writing five short case vignettes in which the correct answer is to withhold or de-escalate a drug.
Your checkpoint
A ten-drug high-alert medication table with four columns per drug, plus five original rational-prescribing vignettes with answer keys.
Diagnostics: Laboratory and Imaging & Public Health, Health Law, and Medical Ethics
Create a laboratory test interpretation sheet covering the twenty most frequently tested tests, stating reference range, common false-positive cause, and the next confirmatory step for each.
Complete 60 diagnostics items and 60 public health, health law, and medical ethics items, logging each miss with the governing rule or principle.
Summarize Mongolia-relevant public health structures, reporting duties, and the core consent and confidentiality rules in a two-page brief.
Practice ten imaging-modality selection questions by stating the best initial modality and justifying the choice in one sentence each.
Your checkpoint
A twenty-test laboratory interpretation sheet plus a two-page brief on public health reporting and medical ethics principles, both written without source material open.
Basic and Preclinical Sciences Applied to Clinical Practice & Professional Communication and Clinical Skills
Review the highest-yield preclinical concepts (acid-base physiology, fluid compartments, pharmacokinetics, autonomic pharmacology, microbiology classification) in a single condensed summary sheet.
Rehearse ten structured clinical communication scenarios (breaking bad news, informed consent, medication adherence counseling) and record each as a self-scored checklist.
Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and analyze every error by domain to identify the three weakest areas.
Re-drill only the weakest three domains and all previously missed items until the retest score exceeds 85%.
Your checkpoint
Two completed timed mock exams with a domain-by-domain error analysis and a final one-page high-yield revision sheet.
Milestones
Week 2: Internal medicine error log has at least 240 logged items, and the week-1 retest score is at least 80%.
Week 4: The acute abdomen table, obstetric and pediatric red-flag table, and combined error log are complete, with at least 330 total items attempted across domains 1 through 4.
Week 6: The notifiable-disease table, ten-drug high-alert table, and rational-prescribing vignettes are finished, and cumulative item count exceeds 570.
Week 8: Both timed mock exams are completed with a domain error analysis, and the weakest three domains score above 85% on retest.