OMSB Psychiatry (OEPSY) study plan

Build a one-page blueprint of the OEPSY psychiatry syllabus, mapping each major topic area (psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety and OCD, trauma-related, personality, substance use, neurocognitive, child/adolescent, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, emergency psychiatry, consultation-liaison, forensic/legal) to the weight you will give it.

Draft a 40-item diagnostic self-test drawn from broad psychiatry topics and complete it under timed conditions to establish a baseline score and a ranked list of weak areas.

Create a spaced-repetition deck skeleton with separate sub-decks for psychopharmacology, classification criteria, and emergency protocols, and seed at least 100 cards from your weakest three areas.

Schedule protected study blocks on your calendar for all eight weeks, including one weekly 90-minute block reserved for practice questions and review of errors.

Summarize the diagnostic criteria, specifiers, and differential for psychotic disorders and mood disorders into comparison tables you can recall without notes.

Explain the mechanism, monitoring requirements, and major adverse effects of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antidepressants, and link each drug class to the monitoring parameter that triggers action.

Work through at least 60 practice questions on psychotic and mood disorders, and write a one-line 'why I missed it' note for every incorrect answer.

Rehearse a structured mental status examination and risk assessment verbally, recording yourself once to check completeness.

Differentiate anxiety disorders, OCD, and trauma-related disorders by onset, course, and first-line treatment, and note where treatments diverge.

Map the psychotherapy modalities (CBT, exposure and response prevention, DBT, psychodynamic, supportive, family) to the conditions where each is first-line or adjunctive.

Complete 60 practice questions spanning anxiety, OCD, trauma, and psychotherapy, and convert every miss into a flashcard within 24 hours.

Practice two short written case formulations that justify a treatment plan from diagnosis through first-line intervention and follow-up.

Distinguish personality disorders by cluster, core feature, and common co-occurring conditions, and identify the therapeutic stance that most often causes difficulty.

Outline the assessment and management of substance use disorders, including withdrawal risks, intoxication presentations, and medication-assisted treatment options.

Review neurocognitive disorders: differentiating delirium, major neurocognitive disorder, and depression in older adults, plus first-line cognitive assessment steps.

Complete a 100-question mixed mock exam under timed conditions and analyze results by topic to update your weak-area ranking.

Consolidate child and adolescent psychiatry: developmental milestones relevant to diagnosis, ADHD, autism spectrum, and disruptive behavior presentations, and the safety considerations of psychotropics in minors.

Detail emergency psychiatry protocols for agitation, suicidality, self-harm, delirium, and catatonia, including when to escalate to involuntary assessment under local mental health law.

Explain consultation-liaison essentials: delirium recognition, capacity assessment, and the psychiatric effects of medical illness and medications.

Complete 60 practice questions on child/adolescent, emergency, and consultation-liaison content, and rewrite each miss as a short scenario you can answer cold.

Review forensic and legal psychiatry concepts: confidentiality limits, duty to warn, informed consent, involuntary admission criteria, and fitness to stand trial basics.

Revisit psychopharmacology as a single integrated review, focusing on drug interactions, pregnancy and lactation considerations, and serotonin syndrome and neuroleptic malignant syndrome recognition.

Answer 80 timed questions weighted toward your two lowest-scoring topics from week 4, and log time-per-question to identify pacing problems.

Teach two difficult concepts aloud from memory as if explaining to a junior colleague, and note where your explanation broke down.

Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam-day conditions, including breaks and no reference material.

Analyze both mocks question by question, tagging each miss as knowledge gap, misread, or reasoning error, and quantify the proportion of each.

Re-drill every missed item from weeks 1-6 in your spaced-repetition deck and retire cards you now answer instantly.

Refine your exam-day strategy for flagging and returning to uncertain items, and test it during the second mock.

Consolidate all remaining weak areas into a single high-yield review list and work through it top-down, retiring each item only after a correct cold recall.

Complete one final timed mock exam and compare the topic breakdown against your week 1 baseline to confirm improvement.

Review the emergency, legal, and psychopharmacology quick-reference sheets daily to lock in high-stakes facts.

Finalize logistics: confirm exam date, venue or online setup, identification, and a sleep and break plan for the preceding 48 hours.