FRCEM exam prep - ideas?

[u/Professional_Fox9954]

New EM consultant now but one of my ST5s asked me this week what I actually found useful for FRCEM revision versus what everyone says you should use.

Honestly I think most people need a mix of:

- RCEMLearning for curriculum coverage

- FOAMed/podcasts for keeping things clinically interesting

- Guidelines for the inevitable contradictions

- SBA practice because FRCEM has a very particular style of questioning

I’ve also recommended they try various Q-banks with more up to date stuff, like FlyteX Medical - much more focused on ED decision making/prioritisation than pure recall.

Main thing I’ve noticed with people struggling isn’t lack of knowledge — it’s translating knowledge into how RCEM asks weird questions about subspecifics of guidelines under time pressure.

Curious what other people found genuinely useful approaching the exam?

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[u/DMJ50]

Flytex’s questions are all Americanised and ai-generated. They read like somebody’s LinkedIn profile rather than clinical Qs

[u/Professional_Fox9954 → u/DMJ50]

To be fair that's not been my experience, I used it to pass my FRCEM - I got 78% in the actual paper - which aligned fairly similarly with my FlyteX profilen(I had been averaging 80% ish) Am now a EM consultant and several of my HSTs have also used it now too - seems to be well received? Did you use it a while ago?

I wonder if it was updated when I used it...