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The six MCCQE areas: pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and public health, ethics, legal and organizational medicine. Alongside the acute presentations there are questions on chronic disease managed over time, on screening, immunization and behaviour change, and on the psychosocial side of practice including mood, anxiety and suicide risk assessment. Every question uses Canadian clinical context, SI units and Canadian guideline reasoning.
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These items are written from the same work as the intensive review courses. All four are available on demand: Ethics, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Internal Medicine. Fifteen hours of recorded teaching, three MCQ banks with 370 questions, the Internal Medicine handout and two cheat sheets.
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