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PACES Unlocked - The Technique Guide For Doctors Preparing For MRCP PACES
You can know enough medicine to pass PACES and still fail it.
The candidates who struggle aren't usually the ones who haven't revised. They're the ones who walk into a station, see something unfamiliar and feel the floor disappear. The ones who crumble when the examiner pushes back. The ones who leave the exam knowing they could have done better and not quite understanding why they didn't.
PACES is a performance. It rewards a specific way of thinking under pressure and approaching the exam stations. Most people don’t realise this until after they’ve passed.
This guide aims to teach you the techniques upfront.
Walk into every station with a plan
PACES Unlocked gives you a structured framework for approaching each examination station from the moment you enter the room, so that even when a case is unfamiliar, you're not standing there without a direction. You'll have a mental checklist to ask yourself when inspecting, build your working diagnosis from the end of the bed and know how to present your findings with confidence.
When you finish this guide, the exam still requires your knowledge. But your technique will no longer be the thing that lets you down.
What changes when you have a framework
You stop improvising under pressure. You have a repeatable approach for every station - neurology, cardiology, respiratory and abdominal - so the exam feels more like executing a rehearsed plan than facing the unknown. You know how to handle an examiner who pushes back without abandoning an answer you were right about. You know how to use the five minutes before a consultation station, how to manage the clock and how to close a station professionally even when it hasn't gone perfectly.
For resitters, there's a dedicated section on what commonly goes wrong and how to prepare differently, not just harder.
For International Medical Graduates, there's specific guidance on the communication style of the UK exam environment.
Written by someone who has passed first time
Dr Will Bierrum is a Neurology Registrar who passed PACES first time and has since worked as a PACES course instructor. The frameworks in this guide come from experience of knowing what it feels like to sit the exam and from watching what separates candidates who pass from those who don't.
This is not a knowledge guide. This is the part most candidates don’t get taught.
Buying from Asia, Africa or the Middle East? Use this link →
https://medxstart.gumroad.com/l/PACES_Unlocked
PACES Unlocked - The Technique Guide For Doctors Preparing For MRCP PACES
You can know enough medicine to pass PACES and still fail it.
The candidates who struggle aren't usually the ones who haven't revised. They're the ones who walk into a station, see something unfamiliar and feel the floor disappear. The ones who crumble when the examiner pushes back. The ones who leave the exam knowing they could have done better and not quite understanding why they didn't.
PACES is a performance. It rewards a specific way of thinking under pressure and approaching the exam stations. Most people don’t realise this until after they’ve passed.
This guide aims to teach you the techniques upfront.
Walk into every station with a plan
PACES Unlocked gives you a structured framework for approaching each examination station from the moment you enter the room, so that even when a case is unfamiliar, you're not standing there without a direction. You'll have a mental checklist to ask yourself when inspecting, build your working diagnosis from the end of the bed and know how to present your findings with confidence.
When you finish this guide, the exam still requires your knowledge. But your technique will no longer be the thing that lets you down.
What changes when you have a framework
You stop improvising under pressure. You have a repeatable approach for every station - neurology, cardiology, respiratory and abdominal - so the exam feels more like executing a rehearsed plan than facing the unknown. You know how to handle an examiner who pushes back without abandoning an answer you were right about. You know how to use the five minutes before a consultation station, how to manage the clock and how to close a station professionally even when it hasn't gone perfectly.
For resitters, there's a dedicated section on what commonly goes wrong and how to prepare differently, not just harder.
For International Medical Graduates, there's specific guidance on the communication style of the UK exam environment.
Written by someone who has passed first time
Dr Will Bierrum is a Neurology Registrar who passed PACES first time and has since worked as a PACES course instructor. The frameworks in this guide come from experience of knowing what it feels like to sit the exam and from watching what separates candidates who pass from those who don't.
This is not a knowledge guide. This is the part most candidates don’t get taught.
Buying from Asia, Africa or the Middle East? Use this link →
https://medxstart.gumroad.com/l/PACES_Unlocked