MRCP Part 2 Written — Volume 1

MRCP Part 2 Written — Volume 1

Best-of-Five Question Bank — The Seven Major Specialties

Part 2 tests something Part 1 never really does: the clinical decision on a patient you’ve essentially already diagnosed. Knowing the diagnosis isn’t the challenge — choosing the single best next step under exam conditions is. This volume is built around that exact skill, covering the highest-yield ground first in a consistent, management-focused format.

What’s inside

• The seven major specialties — Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Endocrinology & Metabolic Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Renal Medicine, and Respiratory Medicine — together roughly two-thirds of the real exam
• Management-focused house style — a clinical vignette with observations and investigations, five best-of-five options, and the colour-coded answer
• The stem-reading skill made explicit — every question shows the clues examiners use to signpost the correct choice, a skill that transfers to the next question
• Complete explanations — why the right option is right and why each of the other four is wrong, plus an exam pearl and a reference for further reading
• Difficulty tagging — every item marked Core, Applied, or Discriminator, weighted toward Applied and Discriminator to match Part 2’s emphasis on the single best next step
• Designed to pair with Volume 2 — the remaining specialties (Neurology, Haematology, Rheumatology) and two full timed mock papers

Original practice questions only — no confidential MRCP content reproduced.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, MD, IDCCM, FCCCM, ECMO (Paris); author of the EDIC preparation series.