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This on-demand teaching session offers medical professionals a comprehensive overview of the UK Medical Schools Council's Clinical Problem Solving Exam. Through this session, attendees will learn all the different specialities and the best strategies for practicing and preparing for the exam. Attendees can also seek advice from expert Nisha and ask questions about the application process and radiology specialty. Ultimately, this session provides comprehensive support and guidance for medical professionals on their journey to gaining the M SRA qualification.

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A 45 minute interactive session covering the format of the MSRA with emphasis on maximising scores in professional dilemma and clinical problem solving sections of the MSRA.

Learning objectives

Learning Objectives for Medical Audience:

  1. Understand the rationale for choosing option A, D, and BEC as the best answers for the professional dilemma questions posed in the session.
  2. Understand the importance of respecting a patient's autonomy and the need to explore points of view in appropriate ways.
  3. Learn how to effectively communicate to resolve conflicts and tension scenarios among colleagues in the medical field.
  4. Increase the awareness of the importance of preparing and double-checking documentation before entering a medical exam.
  5. Develop a better understanding of the thirteen specialties on the Medical Specialty Recruitment Exam and their relevance to radiology examinations.
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OK. So the correct answer is a DCB. So I think Bush will put that. So, yeah, great. If you, if you put that. So I'll quickly go through the rationale for this one because it seems like quite a few of you've got this one, right? So the best answer is a because as I said, questions that where you're exploring um different points of view. So in this one, you're um talking to the son, you're trying to understand the reason for his request in this situation. Why doesn't he want his father to know? Um, if he's got cancer? Um, that answer is the best one because, um, you're exploring, you're finding out the reasoning, you're being sensitive and empathizing with the patient's son without giving away any information. It doesn't say in option A that you're going to tell him the results of the scans or investigations, you'll just like slowly finding out what's gonna happen. Um, why he want, doesn't want his father to know about the cancer. The second best answer is option D. So that's the second best one because you are um, respecting Mister Ahmed's autonomy. You're asking him whether he wants his family to be there or not when you give the um information out. Um So you're expecting auto autonomy and you're still considering that the son might want to be there um, in that answer. So that's the second best answer option. C um, that's not as good as the other two options. It's a bit abrasive. You're asking them all to clear off and leave and you're not taking into account that the son wants to be involved in this discussion with Mr Ahmed. If Mr Ahmed agrees, um, option B is the least appropriate um answer here because you're completely disregarding the sun. It's a bit rude. Um And again, you're being a bit abrasive and not really having any empathy with the sun in that situation. Does that make sense? Anything not clear about that answer? No? OK. We've got one more to do. So again, do you want three minutes and then put your answers in the chat box and we'll go through it? Ok, great. Do you guys wanna put your answers in the chat box and then we'll go through it? Ok, great. We'll go through it. So the correct answer is DA B EC. So, um someone got it right and then the person um, Cecilia, you were just off by one. So that's really good. So for this scenario, um the best option in this scenario is um d so as I said, questions where you're exploring what's going on ran highly and that's the same for this answer. You're asking Sarah what's going on? Why is she talking to the nurses like that? Something isn't quite right. The second answer um is a, so in that answer, it's not as good as an option. D because you're not talking to Sarah directly, but you're raising it with other colleagues that um there's an issue with Sarah's behavior, you're escalating at the right level and you're trying to find out if there's a pattern in to her's behavior. Does she always talk to nurses like that? The, the third um right answer is B so that's not as good as um D or A because when we talk about escalating at the chain of command, you're kind of skipping a level. So you're not raising it to your immediate direct colleagues first, you're going just straight to the educational supervisor. So even though it's, it's good that you're raising it may be an issue with the way that Sarah speaks to the nurses, you're kind of skipping a few steps. E is the next answer. So even though it's good that you're raising that there might be concerns with the way that Sarah um talks to nurses, you're kind of fobbing off this issue on to other people rather than dealing with it yourself. So it's not as good as the other ones. And then the least appropriate option is number three. So telephoning the nurses and asking them why are you bleeding her all the time? So when I first, um, read that question, the answers, I thought, oh, actually option c sounds ok because maybe you're telephoning to see if there emergency. Can you help out instead of Sarah if Sarah's busy eating her sandwich or something like that? But if you read the um, language carefully, it says, um, telephone, the nurse from Sarah's ward to find out why they need to bleep her four times during lunch. It's accusatory and therefore it's the most um inappropriate option of the bunch. So those are the practice questions. Um They were just off the he website. Um And I think you guys can see that they are difficult questions and they just take a bit of practice. Um If you do practice them and you put time into doing these questions, it will become easier and you get into that kind of mindset of how to answer these professional dilemma questions. So, um finally, I wanted to do a little slide on just how to prepare for the day of the exam. II don't know if it will be a record, I'm not sure um prior to the day of the exam. Um So the first thing is make sure um the day before your exam, you know how you're getting into your exam. Loads of these um M sra exams are really early in the morning. Mine was at 8 a.m. So you need to make sure you know how to get there if you're using public transport, that kind of thing and give yourself enough time to get there and check in. Um, packing ID sounds really stupid but you need to make sure that your ID, the name and your ID is exactly the same as on your person. View and your AOL account. When I went to sit my M SRA there was a person whose, um, ID did not match their person view slash oral account. They didn't put their middle name. It's on that ID, on their person view and oral account. And because of that, they weren't allowed to sit the exam. So just make sure it matches the day before the exam. Just familiarize yourself with a test interface. I say it's particularly important if you haven't sat something like the driving theory test in the UK. Um, you can go onto the person view website and you can access like an application that shows you exactly how the exam is going to be delivered, how you can, um, scroll forward and back, how you can flag questions and review them, just get used to it. So when you go into the exam, you know exactly what you're doing, um, and finally pat snacks it afterwards because once the adrenaline wears off, you're gonna be exhausted and hungry and get a good night's rest the day before. So just to summarize my top tips are, please don't underestimate how long you need to summarizing for this exam. It's a big one. It's a third of your marks. Put the effort in um answer every question in the paper, there's no negative marking. So even if you're running out of time, you just don't have time to read the questions, put an answer and lastly don't second guess yourself. I really don't think you have time to go back and review your questions. You can flag them and review them if you want, but just remember how tight time is. So that's everything. Um Good luck everybody, you'll be absolutely fine. I'm gonna put my email there. If you've got any questions, feel free to contact me. Um Someone said, do we get to choose when date time of our M SRA exam is? So um yeah, you get an invitation through or to book your M SRA exam. But um literally as soon as those slots come out, aren't they go so quickly? So, I mean, II wanted to do you know, 10 a.m. or something in the morning, I got 8 a.m. on um a random day in January. There's limited places at each person view center because they're not huge and you've got to do it on the special computers. Um So it will be in that time period from the fourth to the 16th of January, but you won't necessarily know what date it is or what time you're doing. Does anyone have any other questions that they want to type into the chat box and I can answer about M SRA or radiology applications. No worries. So you can fill in the feedback form guys that would be really appreciated. Um The link has just been shared now on the chat and uh to your emails. Um that'll be really appreciated, especially for the time out and the effort that NIA has taken to um prepare and deliver the session for you. Can you count presentations, complete out the outside the UK? Um I don't see why not if you've got the certificate to prove that you've done it. I don't see why you couldn't use that and just like related to providing evidence for the portfolio. Um I don't know if you guys know this already, but a really important piece of advice that I got, which I thought was helpful, um was getting a consultant letter to kind of prove each thing I did. So if I did an order, I got a, you know, a letter from a consultant that was, you know, approving that order or I was doing that order and they just saying that I've done it and they had their signature on it and therefore it just looks a bit more, you know, serious and valid. Um And I just think it really helps when you're doing your application because then they don't query it when they're giving you the points. I have a question for the multichoice questions Um Yeah. So I think there's 13 different kind of specialities which they include in the clinical um problem solving exam. If you go onto the he website and you type in M sra, it's got an explanation about the clinical pro problem solving exam. I'll just um see if I can get it for you. Oh, that's great revivals. Sorry if you type in HD clinical problem solving paper. It's got all the different specialities listed that you'll be examined on. Thank you so much, Nisha for the living session. Um Shall we start wrapping up? I don't think there's any more questions coming through now. Yeah. Sounds good to me. Brilliant. So that's the end of the Radiology and Focus series. Thank you everyone so much for attending uh for being a part of this journey and uh good luck with all your applications. We see the M sra with building your portfolios um and in your future careers as well. And uh again, thank you. No, for delivering the session today. Um And all the best. Oh, thank you. P.