Tag Archive for 'Exam'

Tell Us Your Favourite iPhone Apps!

We here at medicaleducator.co.uk are currently checking out he use of predominantly free iPhone apps on for medical students. So what we would like are three things. Why not email us at iphone@medicaleducator.co.uk if you have a point of view on any of our points below. We’re keen to supply our users with a free [...]

Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next?

A medical student is practising for her OSCE exams on the ward…
She examines a 19 year old female patient admitted with asthma on the medical assessment ward for revision purposes.
The patient has a past medical history she has the occasional migraine, and eczema.
The observations are as follows.
BP 128/70
Pulse  98 regular
Fingerprick blood glucose 8.3
Oxygen Sats 97% [...]

5 reasons why you can have an international site for medical revision

Is it possible to have an international site for medical revision? There is a diverse range of assessment methods in place in today’s medical marketplace, ranging from the familiar MCQ exam, to the OSCE format that may not be so familiar to some medical students in the US or in other parts of Western Europe [...]

What’s ‘UMAP’ anyway? A guide to UMAP from Medical Educator

UMAP is the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership and is relevant to many medical students from the UK.
It’s essentially the organisation which is writing/ collecting a bank of medical student exam questions for use in ‘high stakes’ examinations, such as medical finals.
UMAP’s description of their activities can be found on their website: On the site they [...]

The Rise of the EMQ (Extended Matching Question!)

EMQ’s
EMQ’s are being increasingly used in research and papers have recently been published on their success in the USMLE. Its likely that many medical schools will adopt this N from many approach. An EMQ is simple: its a series of typically 6-10 answers, used a number of times with different question stems.They first cropped up [...]

International Revision: Medical Educator is now used in >70 Countries

We keep getting bigger…
Medical educator is expanding week on week and we’re hoping to provide relevant content for all our international users. We’ve now topped over 70 countries using the service, with the top 4 countries using our service to search for medical student exam revision services being the UK, USA, India and Canada.
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Medical Schools Reliance on Simulator Based Training: Experiences and any Questions or Tips

Medical Schools are increasingly relying on simulator based training. Several univerities across the UK and several of the training Colleges for postgraduate education are becoming involved in the field.
But what do you think of it as students? These models are often costly, locked away and the actual face to face training you get with them [...]