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The post-assessment review can take a number of days depending on the assessments sat and number of candidates involved and the results will be made available up to three weeks after the PSA date. Know where to find things e.g. often important information to communicate about a drug is in the ‘patient and carer advice’ section. I commonly used this section during the exam. Your revision should be done through understanding rather than memorising. For every fact you come across, try to either seek an explanation or come up with your own explanation. Even a wrong explanation is usually alright as the PSA won't test on the explanation. This helps you remember the fact much better compared to simply memorising.

Prescribing Safety Assessment

Smart study tools such as note sharing and subscription, review mode, and Microsoft OneNote integration. You will be given a clinical scenario and a list of 6-10 drugs the patient is taking, you will need to identify drugs that are contra-indicated (e.g. in renal impairment), causing the clinical picture (e.g. hypokalaemia, confusion, hypotension), or contain a dosing error. The PSA is based on the competencies identified in the General Medical Council’s Outcomes for graduates (originally published in Tomorrow’s Doctors), such as writing new prescriptions, reviewing existing prescriptions, calculating drug doses, identifying and avoiding both adverse drug reactions and medication errors and amending prescribing to suit individual patient circumstances. The eight distinct prescribing areas: prescribing, prescription review, planning management, providing information about medicines, calculation, adverse drug reactions, drug monitoring and data interpretation, are delivered over two hours. The content of each question refers to ailments and drugs you are likely to encounter in year one of the Foundation Programme. After that, revise all important conditions in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties and the textbooks for the specialties. Your main focus should be on pharmacological management, but diagnosis, investigations and non-pharmacological management are important too.

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Learn the common and serious side-effects and monitoring requirements for: ACEi, antidepressants, anticoagulants, bisphosphonates, HRT, insulin, methotrexate, and statins. TobehonestIcan'treallyrememberhavingtodotoomuchasIwasmorefocussedonfinalsrevision-thepracticepapers,makingsureIwashappywithfindingmywayaroundtheBNFandthatwasaboutit. PSA questions are predominantly based on information that can be found within the BNF. This includes: drug dose, drug route, drug frequency, side effects, adjustments in renal impairment, monitoring requirements and so on. It has a wealth of information beyond simply drug dosing, including interactions and treatment summaries. For F1s, the PSA certificate does not have an expiry date as such. A PSA pass within two years prior to starting the F1 year is valid, but the pass does not expire during the F1 year (e.g. if a trainee joins the foundation programme in August 2022 and passed the PSA in February 2021, the PSA certificate would not expire in February 2023 before their F1 year is complete). If trainees are required to record an expiry date in their e-portfolio it is suggested that the last date of the F1 year is entered. You are advised to spend no more than 4 minutes for each question in the Prescribing section, no more than 3 minutes for each question in the Prescription Review section and no more than 85 seconds for each question in all other sections.

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All F1 doctors are required to pass the PSA to be awarded a Foundation Year 1 Certificate of Completion (F1CC) at the end of the first year of the foundation programme.

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