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Core clinical skills medical question bank

Practise every core clinical skills topic with explained SBAs.

Recall Engine has 700+ core clinical skills questions across 70+ topics in 5 body systems. Every question explains each option.

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700+
topics
70+
topic notes
40+
clinical skills guides
40+
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Core clinical skills by body system

Core clinical skills has 70+ topics in 5 body systems. Each section shows how many questions it has and every topic it covers.

Kidney and urinary

40+ questions across 1 topic. It also has 1 topic note and 1 clinical skills guide.

  • Urinalysis

Blood and cancer

50+ questions across 2 topics. It also has 4 topic notes and 1 clinical skills guide.

  • Lymph node examination
  • Lymph node examination: cervical, axillary, epitrochlear, and inguinal

Infection and immunity

20+ questions across 3 topics. It also has 2 topic notes and 2 clinical skills guides.

  • Hand hygiene and standard precautions
  • Pyrexia of unknown origin history
  • Standard precautions and hand hygiene

Multisystem and acute care

350+ questions across 30+ topics. It also has 20+ topic notes and 20+ clinical skills guides.

  • ABCDE assessment, ECG strips, and laboratory investigations
  • Adult blood culture collection
  • Aseptic technique
  • Clerking, patient safety, and consent
  • Clinical reasoning and how to start forming a diagnosis
  • Core examination routines: general, cardiac, chest, and abdominal
  • Documentation of clinical performance
  • Drug chart prescribing: lower UTI
  • Female urethral catheterisation
  • Height, weight, and BMI measurement
  • History taking: structure and key questions
  • Intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
  • Intravenous cannulation
  • Intravenous fluid prescribing in adults
  • Intravenous infusion setup
  • Medication history and medicines reconciliation
  • Nasogastric tube and the ABCDE approach
  • Nasopharyngeal swab
  • Nasopharyngeal swab and blood culture
  • Nasopharyngeal swab collection
  • Pain assessment and analgesia
  • Perineum, oncogenic viruses, prostate cancer, and inheritance
  • Peripheral IV cannulation
  • Pneumonia, hypertension, TB, and filarial disease
  • Post-operative assessment of the surgical patient
  • Pre-operative assessment
  • Pupillary reflexes, Cushing syndrome, and varicose veins
  • Respiratory, surgical, eye, skin, ENT, neurological, and psychiatric presentations
  • Simple interrupted suturing and aftercare
  • Stroke, Cushing syndrome, kidney stones, and varicose veins
  • Tiredness history taking
  • Unintentional weight loss history taking
  • Venepuncture
  • Venepuncture and specimen handling
  • Vital signs
  • Vital signs and measurements
  • Weight and height measurement
  • Wound assessment and dressing change

Ethics, law, and communication

250+ questions across 20+ topics. It also has 10+ topic notes and 10+ clinical skills guides.

  • Breaking bad news
  • Breaking bad news to a child and family
  • Breaking bad news to an adult: new cancer diagnosis
  • Breaking bad news with SPIKES
  • Clinical communication: core skills
  • Clinical communication: history, explanation, and bad news
  • Clinical communication: information, bad news, and relatives
  • Clinical documentation
  • Clinical reasoning and consultation
  • Clinical referral: writing and handover
  • Consultation skills: gathering information, explaining, and planning
  • Counselling a parent about a child's diagnosis
  • Dealing with angry patients and relatives
  • Discharge summary writing
  • Explain and plan: parent consultation
  • Gathering information, explanation, and planning
  • Giving safety-netting advice
  • Introduction to clinical communication: the patient-centred consultation
  • Mental capacity assessment
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Motivational interviewing for tobacco cessation
  • Obtaining consent
  • Referral letter
  • Referral letters, handover, and discharge summaries
  • Shared decision making
  • Working with patients: shared decision making in antibiotic prescribing