Preparing for AKT Clinical Management Section

Preparation Resources
Knowledge &
reference
websites

Knowledge
modules & selftest sites

Question-only
websites

NICE

Within each curriculum area, you should actively

look for appropriate NICE Guidelines

SIGN

If a clinically important topic does not have NICE

Guidelines, then check SIGN

Patient.co.uk

Patientplus section is directed towards Health

Professionals. Personally I find it more in-depth
and useful than GP Notebook

GP Notebook

Tried, tested, trusted

Does now require (free) registration
Lacks graphics...

RCGP Essential
Knowledge
Updates

Increasingly comprehensive resource - see

Curriculum Map
A lot of podcast material for those of you with
car journeys

InnovAIT
Courses

Available to AIT's.
Log-in and select the InnovAIT journal
60-70 modules available - read the article from
InnovAIT and then take a test

Onexamination.co
m

1500 questions
More realistic
Management" questions are better

Passmedicine.co
m

2500 questions
Harder questions, can set a 2hr exam
Very good for O&G, Paeds, child development

How to Prepare a Topic - If I was revising Neurology, then I would:

Read the Neurology curriculum statement
Check the summary on the curriculum map
Read any examiners feedback
For each topic/ line on the curriculum map:
Revise knowledge
Read any NICE guidelines
Read up patient.co.uk
Focus on the obviously important
(e.g. Respiratory Occupational lung disease vs. Asthma)
Take any knowledge tests on EKU/ InnovAIT
Run through questions on onexamination & passmedicine

How to Organise Learning Sets

Decide how many meetings between now & the exam

For each learning-set week:
- Timetable a core curriculum topic
- Allocate a lead trainee
Ahead of their allocated meeting, the lead trainee prepares that curriculum topic
(see my suggestion)
At the meeting, the lead trainee presents to the group an annotated curriculum
map showing key guidelines, useful reading, useful online modules
During the next few days, everyone else then works through this material and runs
self-test questions
Feedback by all at the start of the next meeting