Free PLAB 2 Medicine stations
General medicine PLAB 2 stations cover common acute and chronic presentations across systems. They test a focused history, reasoning through differentials, and explaining investigations and management in plain English.
What PLAB 2 medicine stations cover
General medicine PLAB 2 stations cover common acute and chronic presentations across systems. They test a focused history, reasoning through differentials, and explaining investigations and management in plain English.
Topics you can practise in these stations include:
- Confused and agitated care-home resident
- Blood results review
- Elderly father becoming confused
- Tiredness on a new antidepressant
- Reduced kidney function on a health check
- Recurrent falls
- Recurrent falls after hip surgery
- Persistent tiredness
- Worried about vascular dementia
- Blood found in urine sample
- Angry about antibiotic-related diarrhoea
- Burning when passing urine
- Confusion and flushing on a new bladder medication
How to approach a medicine station
Take a focused history, reason through differentials by system, screen for red flags, and explain investigations and management in plain English.
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 medicine stations
Examiners reward candidates who actively screen for what must not be missed. In medicine stations, the key red flags include:
- Features of sepsis
- New, unexplained weight loss
- Breathlessness or chest pain at rest
- New confusion or reduced consciousness
- Any 'can't-miss' diagnosis for the presenting complaint
Skills these stations test
The 14 medicine stations break down by skill type as:
- History and management 11
- Counselling 2
- Ethical communication 1
All 14 free medicine stations
Every station below is free. Click one to sit it as an eight-minute spoken consultation, then get your mark-scheme breakdown.
History and management 11
- Confused and agitated care-home resident - Mrs Olive Ellison, 85 (telephone collateral)
- Elderly father becoming confused - relative of John Birtwistle, 82
- Tiredness on a new antidepressant - Mrs Margaret Dewhurst, 65 (low sodium)
- Reduced kidney function on a health check - Mr Joseph Embleton, 61
- Recurrent falls - Mrs Margaret Fotheringham, 78
- Recurrent falls after hip surgery - Mrs Bridget Grimshaw, 78
- Recurrent falls - Mr Richard Hollis, 78 (polypharmacy)
- Persistent tiredness - Mr John Pattinson, 45
- Blood found in urine sample - Mrs Lydia Saab, 57 (on warfarin)
- Burning when passing urine - Ms Eleanor Threlfall, 35
- Confusion and flushing on a new bladder medication - Nigel Stanfield, 60
Counselling 2
- Blood results review - Mrs Diana Clarks, 40 (suspected myeloma)
- Worried about vascular dementia - Mrs Liza Blake, 58
Ethical communication 1
Practise other PLAB 2 specialties
- PLAB 2 Ethical / Communication stations (62)
- PLAB 2 Obstetrics & Gynaecology stations (52)
- PLAB 2 Paediatrics stations (42)
- PLAB 2 Neurology stations (34)
- PLAB 2 Psychiatry stations (31)
- PLAB 2 Cardiovascular stations (27)
- PLAB 2 Gastrointestinal stations (27)
- PLAB 2 Dermatology stations (25)
- PLAB 2 Endocrine stations (24)
- PLAB 2 Musculoskeletal stations (20)
- PLAB 2 Respiratory stations (20)
- PLAB 2 ENT stations (19)
- PLAB 2 Surgical stations (15)
- PLAB 2 Urology stations (15)
- PLAB 2 Genitourinary Medicine stations (12)
- PLAB 2 Infectious Diseases stations (11)
- PLAB 2 Haematology stations (9)
- PLAB 2 Ophthalmology stations (7)
- PLAB 2 Palliative / Pain Medicine stations (6)
- PLAB 2 Breast Surgery stations (2)
Frequently asked questions
What PLAB 2 medicine stations come up?
Plabity's 14 free PLAB 2 medicine stations include presentations such as confused and agitated care-home resident, blood results review, elderly father becoming confused, tiredness on a new antidepressant, reduced kidney function on a health check, recurrent falls, recurrent falls after hip surgery, persistent tiredness, worried about vascular dementia, blood found in urine sample, angry about antibiotic-related diarrhoea, burning when passing urine, confusion and flushing on a new bladder medication. Each runs as an eight-minute spoken consultation marked to the PLAB rubric.
Are these PLAB 2 medicine stations free?
Yes. All 14 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.
Practise medicine stations free.
14 spoken medicine cubicles, marked to the PLAB rubric. No card, no plan.
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