A reference for doctors training in psychiatry, wherever they practise. The essentials of every topic are open to read. The full teaching and the question sets are for members. Structured on the Royal College curriculum and grounded in the questions the examinations actually ask.
Twenty-nine true stories: the cages, the experiments and the cover-ups, and below them the ten documents written afterwards to stop it happening again. Every date has been checked against the record, and where historians disagree it says so. Tap any headline.
Not one of these documents was written in advance. Every single one was written after somebody was harmed, and you can name the harm. Tap a card.
Eleven people whose illness was public and whose care, in most cases, was not good enough. What matters here is what medicine failed to see. Tap a name.
The first assessment. Presenting a case so that people listen. The acutely disturbed patient at three in the morning. Lithium toxicity arriving dressed as a relapse. Supervision, the portfolio, and staying well enough to keep doing this.
Free: all ten briefings, with flashcards and notebooks, and no account needed.
Enter Psychiatry for ResidentsThe Royal College of Psychiatrists sets and marks the MRCPsych. Both written papers run to 150 marks over three hours, and the College states they consist of multiple choice questions and extended matching items in a balance of approximately two thirds to one third.
Every section on this site carries the College weighting and the marks it is worth. Confirm current regulations with the College before you apply.
Read the exam roadBehavioural science and socio-cultural psychiatry, human development, basic neurosciences, clinical psychopharmacology, classification and assessment. Fifty-three discussion points, with the College weighting shown on every section.
Free: the entire syllabus as discussion points, permanently, plus the flashcards and notebooks on roughly a third of them.
Two courses are open: Behavioural Sciences, 1,040 questions, and Human Development, 411.
Enter Paper A The coursesOrganisation of care, general adult, old age, psychotherapy, child and adolescent, addictions, forensic, intellectual disability, and critical review, which alone is a third of the paper.
Free: the entire syllabus as discussion points, permanently, including all seven critical review points.
Enter Paper BBrowse every syllabus overview and the free lessons. No account needed to start reading.
A free account to keep reading past the samples and save where you are.
Full teaching across Paper A and Paper B, every topic, in complete detail.
Lectures and thousands of exam-style questions, per paper. Also £169 for three months, £109 for two and £59 for one.