Which psychiatry exams does this atlas cover?

FRANZCP is the primary board. Content is globally tagged for MRCPsych, ABPN Psychiatry Certification, MD/DNB Psychiatry, NEET-SS Psychiatry, and RCPSC. Educational exam preparation only — not medical advice.

What formats are included in the psychiatry atlas?

Exam-exhaustive topic guides, MEQ/SAQ stems with model answers, CASC/OSCE stations with assessor keys, structured vivas, and linked MCQs. Every clinical claim is primary-source cited.

Is MedVellum psychiatry content medical advice?

No. MedVellum publishes examination preparation material for trainees. It is not a clinical decision support system and does not replace local guidelines or senior clinical judgement.

How is psychiatry content organised?

Hub syndrome pages plus exhaustive leaf topics across general adult, child and adolescent, old age, addiction, forensic, consultation-liaison, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, public/community, emergency, intellectual disability, foundations, and professional practice.

Psychiatry fellowship exam preparation — FRANZCP, MRCPsych, ABPN multi-board atlas

FRANZCP · MRCPsych · ABPN · MD/DNB

Psychiatry Fellowship Exam Atlas

The multi-board psychiatry exam atlas — FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged for MRCPsych, ABPN, MD/DNB, NEET-SS, and RCPSC. Exam-exhaustive topics across general adult, CAP, old age, addiction, forensic, CL, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and foundations, with MEQs, CASC stations, and structured vivas. Every clinical claim is primary-source cited. Educational content only — not medical advice.

Start with topics Browse MEQs / SAQs

Topics: 300
MEQs / SAQs: 274
CASC / OSCE: 252
Vivas: 254

Study by format

Four ways through Psych — one evidence base.

300

Topics

318 exam-exhaustive leaves and hubs: syndromes, monographs, foundations, and systems.

Browse

274

MEQs / SAQs

Modified-essay (MEQ) and short-answer stems with full-mark model answers.

Browse

252

CASC / OSCE

CASC / OSCE communication and clinical stations with assessor keys.

Browse

254

Vivas

Structured oral cross-examination scripts mapped to examiner dimensions.

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Live topics

Open a figure-rich spine

All topics

★ High yield

Consultation-liaison psychiatry

Abnormal illness behaviour and the sick role

Exam-exhaustive fellowship C-L topic on Parsons' sick role, Mechanic's illness behaviour, Pilowsky abnormal illness behaviour (definition, affirming/denying axes, IBQ measurement), mapping to DSM-5-TR SSD/IAD/FND/factitious/malingering, cultural formulation, and non-dualistic stepped care. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

Emergency psychiatry — absconding and missing patients

Absconding and missing patients

Fellowship-depth atlas on absconding, AWOL, and missing psychiatric patients — definitions and pathways; epidemiology and suicide link (NCISH); risk factors and motives; immediate search and police thresholds; multi-element prevention and Safewards; leave decision-making; forensic absconsion; post-return care; special populations; CASC communication. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

psychotherapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Exam-exhaustive fellowship reference on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): psychological flexibility and the hexaflex, experiential avoidance and fusion, techniques, indication-specific evidence (anxiety, depression, OCD, psychosis adjunct, chronic pain), comparison with CBT/DBT/MBCT/ERP, AAQ-II, combined care, and CASC/MEQ pearls. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

★ High yield

Emergency psychiatry

Acute agitation and rapid tranquillisation

Exam-exhaustive fellowship topic on acute agitation and rapid tranquillisation — de-escalation first, capacity and least-restrictive legal principles, oral-then-IM ladders with named doses (lorazepam, midazolam, promethazine, haloperidol, olanzapine, aripiprazole, droperidol), never IM olanzapine plus parenteral benzodiazepine, post-RT monitoring, TREC and Project BETA evidence, BAP/NAPICU principles, special populations. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

★ High yield

Emergency psychiatry

Acute behavioural disturbance and excited delirium presentations

Fellowship-depth topic on extreme acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and contested excited-delirium (ExDS) presentations — ABD-first framing, medical resuscitation, hyperthermia and rhabdomyolysis risk, restraint hazards including positional asphyxia, ANZ ED droperidol and ketamine evidence, Project BETA and BAP principles, capacity and least-restrictive care, custody interface. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

★ High yield

General adult psychiatry — bipolar and related disorders

Acute mania and hypomania management

Exam-exhaustive fellowship reference on acute mania and hypomania management — operational mania vs hypomania criteria; medical work-up and organic mimics; risk, capacity, and legal status; de-escalation, rapid tranquillisation doses, and seclusion principles; lithium/valproate/SGA algorithms with doses and lithium-loading caveats; combination therapy and ECT; hypomania outpatient pathways; step-down to maintenance; RANZCP/NICE/CANMAT/BAP deltas. FRANZCP-primary, globally tagged.

FRANZCPMRCPsych

How this hub is built

Exam-exhaustive. Source-backed. Format-complete.

Topics carry the clinical spine. SAQs, cases, and vivas force the same knowledge into the formats you will sit. Claims are written for examiners — and cited for trust.

Cited claims

PubMed-linked references on clinical statements.

Labelled figures

Algorithms and frameworks built for recall.

Format rails

MCQ, SAQ/MEQ, case, and viva for the same spine.

Board tags

FRANZCP, ACEM, CICM, ANZCA and global peers.