Most relevant to your daily job, this section of the paper assesses your medical knowledge. Remember, the MSRA paper was originally designed as part of GP applications therefore the focus on clinical conditions is breadth rather than depth. It is important to keep up to date with relevant clinical guidelines as they may have changed between your medical finals and now.

Previous candidates have commented that the questions are often ‘2 line stems’ with ‘lack of stem information’. The recommendation is to focus on breadth of knowledge rather than detail. On the next page we have provided mock clinical problem solving papers which a previous successful candidate found very useful:

‘I found the mind the bleep mock most similar to the clinical part of the exam in terms of question stem length and content (bar a few red herrings). Even the way the mind the bleep mock explain answers at the end is v helpful and I think it’s what the exam is after.. Focus on a straightforward technique like this is X disease; these are the symptoms, this is the investigation, this is the treatment. I agree that it doesn’t matter which q bank you use, so long as you know buzz words/situations that are typical of conditions, like electric shock sensation across face when shaving is barn door trigeminal neuralgia. I figured it’s all breadth not depth.. I think someone mentioned earlier that so long as you know the presentation, investigations and management of a disease you should be ok.’