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Test Specifications
PLAB part 1 has extended multiple-choice questions. There will be 200 questions to be solved in 3 hours. Exam is focused on the management and diagnosis of clinical problems.
The subject matter of the PLAB Part 1 exam is defined in terms of skills and content. Questions begin with a title that specifies both the skill and the content they are testing.
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Skills
The exam tests four groups of skills in approximately equal proportions:
- Diagnosis
- Investigations
- Management
- The context of clinical practice
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Content
- The content tested is generally defined in terms of patient presentations and includes:
- Accident and emergency medicine (to include trauma and burns)
- Blood (to include coagulation defects)
- Cardiovascular system (to include heart and blood vessels and blood pressure)
- Disorders of childhood (to include non-accidental injury and child sexual abuse; fetal medicine; growth and development)
- Dermatology, allergy, immunology and infectious diseases
- Disorders of the elderly (to include palliative care)
- ENT and eyes
- Gastrointestinal tract, liver and biliary system, and nutrition
- Metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes
- Nervous system (both medical and surgical)
- Orthopaedics and rheumatology
- Peri-operative management
- Psychiatry (to include substance abuse)
- Renal System (to include urinary tract and genitourinary medicine)
- Respiratory system
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PLAB part 2 is a clinical exam OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination)
There will be 14 Stations and 2 rest Stations. In each station you will be asked to do a task, it can be a clinical examination, eliciting the history, counseling the patient or doing a clinical procedure. You will be given 5 minutes time to complete the task. There will be a reminding bell at 4.5 minutes.
The main skills tested in the PLAB 2 (OSCE Examination) - communication, history taking, clinical examination, practical skills, and emergency management. |
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Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene
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| Dental Admission Test (DAT), | | |
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Education and Teacher Assisting
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| ACCUPLACER (ACCUPLACER), American College Test (ACT), Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessments (AEPA), Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), ASSET (ASSET), California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST), College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST), COMPASS (COMPASS), General Educational Development (GED), Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT), Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), Michigan Test for Teacher Certification (MTTC), Miller Analogies Test (MAT), National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT), New Mexico Teacher Assessment (NMTA), Ohio Graduation Test (OGT), Optometry Admission Test (OAT), ParaPro Assessment (ParaPro), Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT), Program for Licensing Assessments for Colorado Educators (PLACE), Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT), Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS), Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE), Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA), Washington Educator Skills Test—Basic (WEST-B), | | |
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Medical and Allied Health
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| Allied Health Professions Admission Test (AHPAT), Health Occupations Basic Entrance Test (HOBET), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), Nurse Entrance Test (NET), Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB), | | |
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Office and Administrative Professionals
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| Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT), Miller Analogies Test (MAT), Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT), | | |
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Pharmacy Technology
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| Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT), | | |
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