Palliative Medicine

More than 200 best-of-five questions for the Palliative Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE). Written by a UK consultant physician.

This course is supplemented by online Revision Notes (PDF), giving updated clinical information needed for the exam. Subscribers can open them from the Document PDF tab.

The License Medical Palliative Medicine question bank contains more than 200 best-of-five questions in the style of the Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE) in Palliative Medicine. Questions cover pain management and opioid prescribing, symptom control, emergencies in palliative care, care in the last days of life, communication and advance care planning, ethics and the law, psychological and spiritual care, bereavement, non-cancer palliative care (heart failure, COPD, kidney disease, dementia, neurological disease and HIV), and research methods.

Each question is built around a realistic clinical case. Every answer has a full explanation in UK English with SI units, a key learning point and a reference to the current guidance it is based on, including NICE, the Palliative Care Formulary, GMC guidance and UK law.

The question bank is suitable for specialty trainees preparing for the SCE and for doctors, nurses and pharmacists working in hospital, hospice and community palliative care. It is updated regularly as guidance changes. For any help, contact licenmedical@gmail.com.