The study journal
Ideas to explore. Skills to practise. Find something useful for your next study session.
High Stakes: Emergency, Bad News, Defiance (DOCTORS @@@)
Problem: high-stakes scenarios (emergencies, cancer diagnoses, demands, defiance) compress every consultation skill into five minutes under emotional…
Explain Procedures Step by Step: Colonoscopy to Suspected MS (DOCTORS &&&)
Problem: procedure and investigation consultations (colonoscopies, referrals, workups) scare patients twice — the feared disease plus the feared test — and…
Micro-Skills Workshop: Empathy, Analogies, Advice (DOC 99)
Problem: role-plays collapse on micro-failures — a dismissive reassurance, a jargon explanation, blunt advice — that no amount of scenario knowledge fixes….
Sentences That Manage Situations: Phase Lines (DOC 99-3)
Problem: candidates know what to do but not what to say — the right move with the wrong sentence still stalls. Answer in brief: own phase-organised model…
Flagship Mastery: Stigma, Inheritance, Whole-Test View (SP DOC 199)
Problem: the hardest consultations aren’t the rarest diseases — they’re the ones carrying shame (skin conditions), family guilt (inherited heart disease) or…
Everyday Fifty: Chronic Diagnosis Conversations (SP DOC 199-2)
Problem: common-condition diagnoses (CKD, gallstones, Addison’s, diabetes) carry uncommon-sized shocks — dialysis dread, surgery fear, lifelong-medication…
Fifty Rare Sets: Bank Training for Doctors (SP DOC 199-1)
Problem: rare-condition cards feel infinite — every new diagnosis seems to demand new knowledge, and generic reassurance sounds hollow against specific…
Likely vs Feared: Contrast Reassurance, Everyday to Rare (DOC SP 132)
Problem: reassurance fails when it only states the likely cause — patients keep worrying because nobody addressed the feared one. Answer in brief: frame…
Sensitive Consultations: Breast, Prostate, Children (DOC SP 131)
Problem: intimate and paediatric consultations add a second examination — the patient’s dignity — on top of the clinical one. Rushed or clinical-cold…
Lifecycle Consulting: Children, Pregnancy, Habits (DOC SP 130)
Problem: lifecycle consultations (sick toddlers, morning sickness, habit change) fail on generic adult-consultation habits — parents need different…