Free PLAB 2 Endocrine stations
Endocrine PLAB 2 stations include diabetes, thyroid disease and their complications. They test history-taking around symptoms and control, explaining long-term conditions, and lifestyle and medication counselling.
What PLAB 2 endocrine stations cover
Endocrine PLAB 2 stations include diabetes, thyroid disease and their complications. They test history-taking around symptoms and control, explaining long-term conditions, and lifestyle and medication counselling.
Topics you can practise in these stations include:
- Newly diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
- Unintentional weight loss
- Overactive thyroid blood results
- Tiredness
- Weight gain and tiredness with abnormal thyroid results
- Overactive thyroid
- High calcium results
- Thyroid blood results and medication review
- Weight gain
- Thirst and weight loss
- New diabetic ketoacidosis
- Poorly controlled diabetes with nerve, kidney and eye complications
- Recent hypo on insulin and fitness to drive
- Hypoglycaemic collapse with seizures, wants to self-discharge
How to approach a endocrine station
Explore symptoms and their impact, review control and complications for chronic conditions, and counsel on lifestyle and medication. Check the patient's understanding of their long-term management.
The underlying structure is the same as any PLAB 2 station: greet and confirm identity, explore the patient's ideas, concerns and expectations early, take a focused history, screen for the red flags below, explain your thinking in plain English, and agree a shared plan with clear safety-netting. See the free PLAB 2 preparation guide for the full study plan.
Red flags to screen for in endocrine stations
Examiners reward candidates who actively screen for what must not be missed. In endocrine stations, the key red flags include:
- Diabetic ketoacidosis: vomiting, abdominal pain, deep breathing
- Severe hypoglycaemia
- Severe thyrotoxic symptoms (thyroid storm)
- Symptoms of an adrenal crisis
- New diabetes with marked weight loss
Skills these stations test
The 24 endocrine stations break down by skill type as:
- Counselling 14
- History and management 7
- History red flags 3
All 24 free endocrine stations
Every station below is free. Click one to sit it as an eight-minute spoken consultation, then get your mark-scheme breakdown.
Counselling 14
- Newly diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes - Mr Vikram Joshi, 55
- Overactive thyroid blood results - Mrs Maureen Goddard, 34
- Weight gain and tiredness with abnormal thyroid results - Pauline Irvine, 35
- Overactive thyroid - explaining blood results - Mrs Eleanor Jephcott, 50
- High calcium results - Mrs Hazel Kingsley, 65 (primary hyperparathyroidism)
- Thyroid blood results and medication review - Mrs Nida Aslam, 70
- New diabetic ketoacidosis - Emily Allcott, 25 (wants to self-discharge)
- Poorly controlled diabetes with nerve, kidney and eye complications - Andrew Capstick, 56
- Recent hypo on insulin and fitness to drive - Gordon Dalrymple, 56
- Hypoglycaemic collapse with seizures, wants to self-discharge - Kenneth Edgeworth, 28
- Poorly controlled type 1 diabetes review - George Gledhill, 25
- Osteoporosis diagnosis after wrist fracture - Jennifer Padmore, 62
- Starting insulin - Mr Reuben Akpan, 58 (type 2 diabetes)
- Tiredness and aching with a low vitamin D result - Priya Solanki, 38
History and management 7
- Unintentional weight loss - Eleanor Frobisher, 29
- Tiredness - Diane Harborne, 63 (hypothyroidism with low mood)
- Weight gain - Mrs Lisa Kettlewell, 48
- Sudden drowsiness in a diabetic on insulin (hypoglycaemia) - Bob Featherstone, 65
- Milky nipple discharge - Yvonne Asare, 34
- Raised blood calcium - Mrs Bernadette Holloway, 58
- Bumping into things / peripheral vision loss - Estelle Aldous, 44
History red flags 3
- Thirst and weight loss - Hayley Yelland, 16 (new type 1 diabetes / DKA)
- Tiredness, weight loss and dizzy spells - Mrs Frances Okonkwo, 38
- Sore throat and fever on carbimazole - Mrs Bridget Ackerley, 41
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Frequently asked questions
What PLAB 2 endocrine stations come up?
Plabity's 24 free PLAB 2 endocrine stations include presentations such as newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, unintentional weight loss, overactive thyroid blood results, tiredness, weight gain and tiredness with abnormal thyroid results, overactive thyroid, high calcium results, thyroid blood results and medication review, weight gain, thirst and weight loss, new diabetic ketoacidosis, poorly controlled diabetes with nerve, kidney and eye complications, recent hypo on insulin and fitness to drive, hypoglycaemic collapse with seizures, wants to self-discharge. Each runs as an eight-minute spoken consultation marked to the PLAB rubric.
Are these PLAB 2 endocrine stations free?
Yes. All 24 are free to practise. You sign up with an email address, with no card required.
How are the stations marked?
Each station is marked across the three PLAB domains: data gathering, clinical management and interpersonal skills. You get a breakdown of every criterion with quoted evidence from your own consultation, in seconds.
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24 spoken endocrine cubicles, marked to the PLAB rubric. No card, no plan.
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