1. Steph Ezekwe and Sammy Sundar
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5th Year
Steph Ezekwe and Sammy Sundar
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2. What this session will cover
Year 5 Exams
Path
Firms
Writtens
PACES
General advice/summary
Textbooks and resources

3. Year 5 Exams
Pathology
Chemical Pathology, Haematology, Immunology, Microbiology, Histopathology (inc. 5 SBAs on ethics/law)
3h paper
75 EMQs
50 VSAs
50 SBAs
Writtens
3h paper
144 SBAs
36 VSAs
PACES
8 x 15 min stations, 2 mins between each
2 Psych
2 O&G
2 Paeds
2 GP

4. Path Learning content ≈ 1st and 2nd year Lecture slides (inc. week 0!)
MedED Path guide (available from January)
MedED Path Lecture Series (from January)
Past paper questions (see Facebook group)
Blackboard quizzes
Meeran’s book (SBAs and EMQs in Clinical Pathology)
Passmedicine
Brainscape

5. 5 step plan for Path Go through lecture notes/slides + Path guide
Follow up each lecture/topic with EMQs/SBA
Identify gaps in your knowledge and high yield topics -> discuss with a friend and teach/quiz each other
Repeat the process again, but quicker this time
Practise past paper questions and become confident with the high yield facts

6. Specialties
Firms
Writtens
PACES

7. Firms Paeds Psych O&G A&E Community/developmental paeds
Paeds is huge! Try to learn on firms
Understand the healthy child programme
Learn developmental milestones, vaccination schedule and normal obs early
Psych
Community Psych
Liaison Psych
Drug and Alcohol
Psychopharmacology
Psychotherapies
Mental Health Act
Pay attention to how doctors communicate/ useful phrases
O&G
Examine examine examine
Obstetric triage
Don’t forget gynae!
Specialist clinics can be very useful e.g. urogynae, subfertility, obs endo clinic
Listen to how doctors explain conditions/ procedures

8. Firms
Other useful firms GP
GUM - O&G
Derm - Paeds

9. Writtens Paeds Paediatrics Topics app Lissauer’s Sofia
MedED Specialties Lecture Series (Apr/May)
Passmedicine
Lupton’s book (450 SBAs in Clinical Specialties)
Get Ahead
NICE Guidelines
Exam: think timing and tiring
Psych
PRN
Crash Course
Rapid Psychiatry
O&G
Impey
Ten Teachers
RCOG (Green Top Guidelines)

10. 5 step plan for Writtens
Be attentive on the big 3 firms, attend all tutorials and become familiar with common conditions
Fill in the gaps in your knowledge with textbooks, NICE guidelines, patient.co.uk for the conditions you encounter on your placement
Questions! (Lupton’s Specialties book, Get Ahead books)
Questions!! (Passmedicine)
Questions!!! (past paper bank) and become confident with high yield topics (Passmed has specific quizzes for high yield topics!)

11. PACES MedED 5th year mentoring scheme (now?) MedED Mock PACES (Mar)
MedED PACES Guide (Mar)
PACES Group
Write your own stations (so you learn the guidelines too!)
Use real mark schemes to give feedback
Share stations with your friends
Organise your own Mock PACES - practice the stamina
Past stations (see Facebook group)
Patient.co.uk, NHS Choices, RCOG PILS, GOSH PILS
Watch Year 5 PACES Examiner Training on Panopto

12. 5 step plan for PACES Learn the different histories and examinations
Practice on firms with real patients! Ask doctors and patients for feedback
Learn management of conditions and how to counsel using patient.co.uk scripts.
Form PACES groups and practice
Practice past stations and mock PACES

13. General Advice/Summary
Do your own thing
Don’t compare your progress with others
Everything will fall into place (trust us!)
Look after yourselves and each other - don’t burn out
Pace yourself
Enjoy 5th year!

14. Textbooks
PSYCH
O&G
PAEDS

15. Question books, banks and other resources
PATH
WRITTENS

16. Any questions?
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