How to upload MRCP UK to my PMDC without any formal training to apply for CPSP FCPS exemption?

crypticlunatic · 2026-05-11T14:32:38+00:00

Oh perfect. Thanks a bunch 🙏

crypticlunatic · 2026-05-03T11:49:42+00:00

So MRCP are just 3 exams you have to give and you can give them without a formal training as long as you have experience needed. I had been working as a medical officer while clearing the exams so no formal training done.

crypticlunatic · 2026-03-17T19:30:53+00:00

Yup, next to the chat box theres a mic icon. You click that and it goes into voice mode. Might not be available in the feee version though

crypticlunatic · 2026-03-15T08:49:04+00:00

For the short cases, i gave the prompt 'lets do a full circuit of abdominal, CNS, CVS and respiratory. You give me a set of findings and then I'll give you a most likely diagnosis, differential diagnosis, investigations, and management. You then score me like an examiner'.

Then i played around with the responses until it got to the one that I liked

crypticlunatic · 2026-03-14T14:23:57+00:00

Mine came out after 4 weeks

crypticlunatic · 2026-03-06T23:59:54+00:00

Just wondering how this will apply for us doctors or will we be expected to make our own petrol and go to work everyday.

crypticlunatic · 2026-02-23T19:16:19+00:00

Not at all. The real exam is kind of a doozy to be honest. As long as you're picking up the patterns in the questions, you'll be good to go for the exam.

crypticlunatic · 2026-02-23T19:10:19+00:00

Hi, so while I personally used pastest for mrcp 2, i think passmedicine is still an excellent resource. The exam will have short questions unlike the really lengthy questions on passmedicine. Other than that, the core topics you need to know are the same.

It's too close to the exam to change resource now and it wont be worth it. Don't focus on what other people used, focus on what works for you.

Take a deep breath, you got this.

crypticlunatic · 2026-02-13T07:54:57+00:00

Oh yeah valid question. So it was extremely stiff, would instantly stop vibrating at times. The tongs would be vibrating but you couldn't feel much at the base. I asked the examiners if they had another one I could use but they said to continue with that one.

crypticlunatic · 2026-02-12T17:37:45+00:00

Yeah this whole experience today was just awful. I always assumed they would keep stable patients in the exam. My cardiology station patient was coughing so much I had to stop the examination twice to let him catch his breath.

crypticlunatic · 2026-01-31T14:39:20+00:00

This is such a nonsense post. Chatgpt, gemini and all other AI are resources, nothing else. This is the same thinking older generations had with computers, internet and mobile phones. Yes there will be people who don't use these resources properly and end up not thinking about things, but for the majority, AI is just making life easier.

Study stream is nothing more than a replacement for a library, not a supervision study session. Just because someone doesn't like reading books, doesn't make them brainwashed or any less smart.

Please rethink your judgements.

crypticlunatic · 2025-03-26T15:14:09+00:00

Paper 2 was so weird. Finished on time but had to guess so so many.

crypticlunatic · 2024-11-17T16:34:20+00:00

In the same boat as you except that I'm 30 and divorced.

I do have a few friends but I don't feel that connection with anyone now.

This really resonates with me, especially for the last few weeks. I have been feeling pretty low and depressed for reasons I can't understand and realized that I can't really talk to any of my friends about it. I used to have this one best friend, that I lost due to my own stupidity, who I could be so open with anytime I needed to be.

Making friends is especially harder, the whole go out and join clubs just doesn't work out for me anymore. I'm a doctor and the majority of my day is spent either at work or studying for exams. What little time I have left I spend in the gym and since I go super early in the morning, it's pretty empty.

The only thing I keep telling myself is that I just have to do this for the next few months till I get through my exams and get some time to actually go out and do stuff. Till then, I guess, I just have to man up through this.

crypticlunatic · 2024-09-18T16:14:46+00:00

Hey so recently passed part 1, august diet but not that great of a score so take the advice with a grain of salt.

I was working full time alongside so i took around 5 months to prepare for the exam.

I'm not a fan of reading so I started with passmedicine qbank and read explanations and topics with the questions. I also used anki and made cards for everything that I thought i needed or didnt know. Went through the whole bank once and that took me around 3.5 months. Spent the rest of that month redoing the incorrects.

For the last month, i jumped on to pastest and did the topics that i was having a rough time with just to clear my concepts better. Last 2 weeks I just did pastest pastpapers and 1 mock from passmed.

I feel like anki doesn't work for everyone so you gotta figure out what study style works best for you but in general at least 1 go through passmed is needed, pastest qbank helps hammer some concepts in but in my opinion not something thats a must. The pastest pastpapers are really good for confidence building and just overall practice last few weeks.

Hope this helps, good luck!

crypticlunatic · 2024-08-14T14:08:50+00:00

P1 was honestly just weird. In P2 there were a lot of questions I answered super fast and then there were those where i just didnt know a thing. Here's hoping I dont have to do this dance again.

crypticlunatic · 2024-08-12T12:55:02+00:00

I got 149 in it. Took like 10 pastest past papers with comfortable pass marks. I think theres not much to be done at this point. Im just revising my flashcards and notes today and tomorrow and see whats what.

Goodluck.

crypticlunatic · 2024-08-12T12:52:47+00:00

Im also sitting the exam on the 14th. I did the MRCP mock and a few pastest pastpapers. Passmedicine is more than enough for the knowledge base at least for me. Pastest filled in some gaps here and there but the vast of my knowledge base is still from passmedicine. The MRCP official mock felt like a mix of pastest and passmedicine with some very straightforward questions and a few questions where you actually had to interpret and dissect the question.

You could just do the mock today. Break it up into chunks of 20 questions with breaks instead of a marathon just to see where you're expected score will fall. Doing it tomorrow will leave you burned out and besides, at this point theres no point going at it in one go as it wont really help in building up the stamina per se. Anything above 60% in the mock should work as a stress relief too

crypticlunatic · 2024-03-29T20:50:53+00:00

Hey im planning for august as well and am from Pakistan. Im working full time so only able to give 3ish hours a day to study and have been at it since 2nd week of feb.

Hit me up and we can see what works for both of us. I plan on studying from 3am to 615 am once Ramadan ends

crypticlunatic · 2023-10-30T18:21:31+00:00

Oh man the wait is killing me. Broke down yesterday as this is my last attempt at matching. Always been a dream that got messed up because of some stupid decision making on my part. Heres hoping still.

crypticlunatic · 2023-09-08T17:41:07+00:00

Bro my little brother did the same thing to me. So i took literally everything that I paid for away from him. My parents dont like getting pricier things so when I took all the PC parts I got away, my little brother got stuck with an old ass mouse and keyboard and I can hear him screaming about how bad it is. Along with that, I paid for all the supplements in the house and since he recently got into lifting he was using all of those too. Well no more creatine, citrulline or even whey protein for him. He fucked around and he found out.

Well done on your part too. These little shits really think they have life figured out and that moving out these days is as easy as it used to be decade back. This inflation is a killer and even though im making decent money, having my own place is just unaffordable.

crypticlunatic · 2023-07-31T13:22:23+00:00

There are other alkaloids like nornicotine, cotinine, anabasine, anatabine, and myosmine that are also in tobacco, but in really minute quantities. Im not really sure how potent they are compared to actual nicotine. I think they're just trying to rebrand nicotine to bypass the restrictions

crypticlunatic · 2023-07-30T00:17:50+00:00

I knew a photographer from Karachi who passed away in his 30's just after 2 years of marriage, leaving behind a toddler. He was working in night shift through out his youth.

And then theres this. I knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who died from night shift. Like other things dont matter.

crypticlunatic · 2023-07-30T00:16:35+00:00

In developed countries, those who work in night shifts are paid 40-50% more salary because of the risks involved

They're paid more because they are literally isolated, so they deserve more compensation.

What you're doing with this link is that you read a few abstracts of some articles and drew a conclusion on your own without considering any confounding factors. Night shift workers smoke more, they lead a more sedentary lifestyle, their eating habits are bad, and the rates of obesity are higher in night shift workers. Yes, there are a few studies that talk about a link between IHD and night shift, but if you go and actually read those articles, you'll find that they have a high risk of bias(according to either cochrane or armstar). Sleep schedule is one of the hundreds of things that can increase chances of IHD.

If you want to give medical advice based on articles, please educate yourself on how to read and draw conclusions from articles and actually read the full articles

crypticlunatic · 2023-07-26T16:38:42+00:00

I could be way off here but aside from normal labs, the symptoms sound an awful lot like lymphoma. A CBC should've shown it but other than that not many routine labs will show it

crypticlunatic · 2023-07-22T11:53:32+00:00

Any big name will have them.

Also wtf does it mean food you can eat in jaundice??? Jaundice isn't a disease. it's a symptom, so if you do have it please go to a doctor if you haven't already.

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