e-UKCG study plan

Map the Domain 1 syllabus against your own confidence, then rank the top five weakest medical and surgical topics for targeted study.

Build a spaced-repetition deck of 150 high-yield internal medicine facts (diagnostic criteria, first-line management, red-flag presentations) and review it daily.

Work through 60 single-best-answer medicine questions under timed conditions and write a one-line learning point for every item you answer incorrectly.

Draft a personal error log template that records the clinical reasoning flaw, not just the correct answer, so later weeks can reuse it.

Consolidate surgical presentations by practising 50 timed questions on acute abdomen, perioperative care, and wound and fracture assessment.

Recite aloud the immediate management sequence for common surgical emergencies (upper GI bleed, bowel obstruction, testicular torsion) without notes.

Review every missed item from Week 1 and rewrite the underlying rule as a single sentence you can apply to new vignettes.

Test yourself on 40 pharmacology-in-medicine items covering anticoagulation, insulin, and antimicrobial stewardship.

Complete 50 timed questions spanning the remaining medicine and surgery subtopics, tagging each by system so gaps are visible.

Work through 40 specialty questions on obstetrics and gynaecology, focusing on antenatal complications, contraception, and abnormal bleeding.

Explain the safe prescribing principles for pregnancy and lactation to a study partner in under five minutes.

Update the error log with every new miss and schedule each item for review within 72 hours.

Drill 50 paediatric questions covering developmental milestones, childhood fever, asthma, and safeguarding red flags.

Practise 40 psychiatry items on risk assessment, mental state examination, and first-line management of depression and psychosis.

Rehearse the structure of a mental state examination aloud until you can deliver it fluently in three minutes.

Re-attempt all previously missed specialty questions and record whether the reasoning error recurred.

Work through 60 general practice questions emphasising undifferentiated presentations, chronic disease review, and referral thresholds.

Build a one-page checklist of safety-netting advice for the ten commonest primary care presentations.

Practise applying NICE-style guidance to three primary care scenarios and justify each decision in writing.

Compare your primary care accuracy with your hospital-based accuracy and identify which setting exposes weaker reasoning.

Complete 40 emergency medicine questions on resuscitation, sepsis, trauma, and airway management under strict time pressure.

Recite the ABCDE assessment sequence and the first five actions for a deteriorating patient without reference material.

Work through 40 safe-prescribing items on high-risk drugs, interactions, allergy documentation, and calculation errors.

Audit ten of your own prescribing-style answers for dose, route, and monitoring omissions and log each lapse.

Practise ten simulated consultations using a clear opening, information-gathering, explanation, and closing structure, timing each to eight minutes.

Rehearse breaking bad news and obtaining informed consent using a recognised framework, recording yourself once and reviewing it.

Work through 30 ethics and law questions on capacity, confidentiality, consent in minors, and fitness to practise.

State the four legal tests for capacity and the grounds for breaching confidentiality aloud from memory.

Interpret 20 abstract-style scenarios covering sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, number needed to treat, and confidence intervals.

Design a small quality improvement cycle using a plan-do-study-act structure and describe the measures you would track.

Complete two full timed mock examinations and review every incorrect answer using the error log.

Re-test your weakest three domains from the Week 4 mock and confirm measurable improvement.