RCEM Curriculum Mapping

Our educational content is strictly titrated to match the latest Royal College of Emergency Medicine learning outcomes. Explore the systematic syllabus breakdown below.

📘 MRCEM Primary

  • Exam Type: Theory
  • Exam Format: Multiple choice questions (MCQ) with single best answers
  • Total Questions: 180
  • Sections: 1
  • Timing: 3 hours
  • Location: Surpass Assessment Test Centres

📗 MRCEM SBA

  • Exam Type: Theory
  • Exam Format: Multiple choice questions (MCQ) with single best answers (SBA)
  • Total Questions: 180
  • Sections: 2
  • Timing: 4 hours (2 x 2 hours with a 1 hour break)
  • Location: Surpass Assessment Test Centres
  • Content Focus: Understanding of the full range of conditions and presentations that may be encountered in the ED

📘 Primary Examination Blueprint

🧬 Basic Core Sciences

Comprehensive and high-yield coverage of the foundational physiological and anatomical sciences required for the MRCEM Primary examination. Formulated exactly to the 180-question syllabus allocation.

Anatomy 60 Qs
Physiology 60 Qs
Pharmacology 24 Qs
Microbiology 17 Qs
Pathology 9 Qs
EBM 10 Qs

📗 SBA Examination Blueprint (SLOs)

SLO 1: Complex Stable Patient 60 Qs

Systematic management of patients presenting with complex but hemodynamically stable conditions across various medical and surgical specialties.

  • Cardiovascular & Respiratory
  • Neurology & Gastroenterology
  • Endocrinology & Renal
  • + Additional Specialties

SLO 3: Resuscitate 40 Qs

Acute and definitive management protocols for the critically ill patient requiring immediate life-saving and airway interventions.

  • Resuscitation Algorithms
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • End of Life Care

SLO 4, 5 & 6: Trauma, PEM & Procedures 65 Qs

Targeted clinical scenarios focusing on the injured patient, pediatric emergency medicine, and core practical procedural skills.

  • Injured Patient (SLO 4) 30 Qs
  • Paediatric EM (SLO 5) 25 Qs
  • Procedural Skills (SLO 6) 10 Qs

SLO 7: Complex Situations 15 Qs

Navigating the legal, ethical, and psychosocial complexities encountered within the intensive emergency department environment.

  • Safeguarding
  • Legal Frameworks & Ethics
  • Organ Donation

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