MDCN Assessment study plan

MDCN Assessment · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Medicine

Map the Medicine blueprint into a written topic checklist covering cardiology, respiratory, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology, and infectious disease, and rate your confidence on each item from 1 to 5.
Build a spaced-repetition deck of at least 150 Medicine cards drawn from your own notes, tagging each card by system so weak areas can be filtered later.
Work through 40 mixed Medicine questions untimed and log every miss with the underlying reasoning error, not just the correct answer.
Draft a one-page formula and threshold sheet (e.g., anion gap, corrected calcium, fluid maintenance) to consult during practice.

A dated Medicine topic checklist with confidence ratings and a 150-card deck that passes a self-quiz on 20 randomly drawn cards.

Week 2

Explain aloud, without notes, the first-line management pathway for the five highest-yield Medicine presentations on your checklist.
Solve 60 timed Medicine questions in two 30-question blocks and record per-system accuracy.
Rewrite every missed question from week 1 and week 2 into a two-line teaching note in your own words.
Review the formula sheet and confirm you can apply each item to at least one worked example.

A per-system accuracy table for 100 cumulative Medicine questions, with any system below 60 percent flagged for week 3 review.

Week 3

Re-drill the flagged weak Medicine systems using 30 targeted questions per weak area.
Compare paired diagnoses that are commonly confused (e.g., nephrotic versus nephritic, type 1 versus type 2 respiratory failure) in a side-by-side table you write yourself.
Practice interpreting 15 laboratory or clinical-vignette stems under a 90-second-per-question limit.
Audit your flashcard deck for duplicates and delete or merge at least 20 low-value cards.

A completed weak-area remediation log showing before-and-after accuracy on at least two Medicine systems.

Week 4

Sit a 100-question timed Medicine-only mock in one sitting and score it against a fixed pass mark you set in advance.
Categorize every error as knowledge gap, misread stem, or time pressure, and count each category.
Re-teach the three costliest knowledge gaps to an imaginary colleague in writing.
Set a Medicine maintenance schedule of 20 questions per week for the remaining weeks.

A scored Medicine mock with an error-category tally and a written remediation plan for the top three gaps.

Week 5

Map the Dentistry blueprint into a written checklist covering oral medicine and pathology, restorative and endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, and dental public health.
Rate confidence on each Dentistry item from 1 to 5 and order the list from weakest to strongest.
Build at least 150 Dentistry flashcards tagged by discipline, including 30 on local anaesthesia and 30 on radiographic interpretation.
Work through 40 untimed Dentistry questions and log reasoning errors.

A dated Dentistry checklist with confidence ratings and a 150-card deck that passes a self-quiz on 20 random cards.

Week 6

Explain aloud the decision pathway for the five highest-yield Dentistry scenarios on your checklist, including when to refer.
Solve 60 timed Dentistry questions in two 30-question blocks and record per-discipline accuracy.
Write a one-page emergency sheet covering syncope, anaphylaxis, local anaesthetic toxicity, and swallowed or aspirated objects.
Rewrite each missed Dentistry question as a two-line teaching note.

A per-discipline accuracy table for 100 cumulative Dentistry questions with weak disciplines flagged.

Week 7

Re-drill the two weakest Dentistry disciplines with 30 targeted questions each.
Run two 50-question mixed mocks split evenly between Medicine and Dentistry and compare scores against week 4.
Review the Medicine maintenance questions and re-teach any concept missed twice.
Trim the combined flashcard deck to the 200 highest-yield cards and schedule daily 10-minute reviews.

Two scored mixed mocks with a comparison table showing change in Medicine and Dentistry accuracy since week 4.

Week 8

Sit two full-length timed mocks under exam conditions, including breaks, and score both.
Analyze errors by domain and confirm neither domain falls below your target pass mark.
Rehearse the emergency and formula sheets from memory in a blank-page recall test.
Finalize an exam-day plan covering timing per question, flag-and-return rules, and rest the day before.

Two full-length scored mocks plus a one-page exam-day plan with per-domain target scores and a timing strategy.

Week 2: Complete at least 100 Medicine questions with per-system accuracy recorded and a 150-card deck built.

Week 4: Score at or above your preset pass mark on a 100-question timed Medicine mock and have a written remediation plan.

Week 6: Complete at least 100 Dentistry questions with per-discipline accuracy recorded and a 150-card deck built.

Week 8: Score at or above your target pass mark in both domains on two full-length timed mocks and have an exam-day plan written.