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Introduction

The professional dilemmas paper is a Situational Judgement Test (SJT), assessing your approach to complex professional dilemmas. Unlike the Clinical problem Solving questions, it is not an assessment of knowledge, but is designed to evaluate specific professional attributes.

The PD paper closely resembles the SJT exam that many UK graduates sat prior to foundation training.

In addition to our highly representative professional dilemmas practice questions (accessed via the question bank), ensure that you utilise official resources and past papers. Becoming familiar with the rationales presented under each question, and understanding the ‘rules’ on which the answers are justified is one of the most effective revision techniques for the professional dilemmas paper. By understanding these rules, you can apply the same logic in the exam to justify why certain actions are more appropriate than others, and how certain combinations of answers will score maximum points.

Given the similarities between the UKFP SJT and the MSRA PD paper, we have included some of the practice papers for this as additional useful resources.