Free PLAB 1 study guides

Exam technique and six quick-reference sheets from the PLAB Vault course, written for UK practice. Free to read, no account needed.

• PLAB 1 exam techniqueHow the exam works, pacing at a minute a question, reading a single best answer question and choosing the UK answer.
• Doses that decide questionsThe emergency, infection and everyday doses that PLAB 1 questions turn on, all from the PLAB Vault lessons.
• UK screening programmesWho is screened, how and how often, from pregnancy to older age, as PLAB 1 tests them.
• UK immunisationThe routine schedule after the 2025 and 2026 changes, vaccines in pregnancy and older age, and the contraindications PLAB 1 tests.
• Numbers and thresholdsThe cut-offs that decide PLAB 1 answers, from blood results to scores and observations, as used in UK practice.
• Notifying, reporting and the lawWho must be told, by whom and how fast: notifiable diseases, safeguarding, FGM, the coroner, the DVLA and the police.
• Where UK practice differsThe UK answers that catch out doctors trained elsewhere, grouped by exam area.