geekymedics.com

Geeky Medics is a medical education platform aimed at medical students and doctors preparing for exams and clinical practice. It offers free revision notes, OSCE guides, MCQs, videos, and AI virtual patients, with paid textbooks, question banks, and case collections available separately. The content is written in British English and is primarily relevant to UK medical curricula and examinations.

What Geeky Medics provides

The site combines free reference material with paid study tools. The main categories are:

• Revision notes — topic summaries covering clinical medicine, examinations, and practical procedures.
• OSCE guides — step-by-step station guides, including communication and counselling scenarios (for example, a myocardial infarction counselling OSCE guide).
• MCQs and question banks — practice questions for exams such as the MLA AKT and PSA.
• Videos — demonstrations of clinical examinations and procedures.
• AI virtual patients — simulated patient encounters for practising history-taking and communication.

Free vs paid content

Paid items are purchased through the Geeky Medics app store. Pricing is not stated on the pages referenced here, so check the individual product pages for current costs.

Who it is for

• Medical students preparing for OSCEs, written exams, and clinical placements.
• Foundation doctors and trainees revising for postgraduate exams such as the MLA AKT or PSA.
• International medical graduates who need a structured refresher in UK-style clinical examination and communication.

How to use it

1. Start with the free revision notes and OSCE guides for the topic you are studying.
2. Watch the corresponding video if you need to see the examination or procedure performed.
3. Test yourself with MCQs; if you need more volume or exam-specific practice, consider a paid question bank.
4. Practise communication and counselling skills with the AI virtual patients or by working through OSCE station guides with a peer.

Limitations to keep in mind

• Content follows UK guidelines and terminology; it may not match other countries' protocols.
• Free content is broad but not a substitute for a full question bank if you are sitting a high-stakes exam.
• Paid resources require a purchase, and access terms are set by the platform.

Geeky Medics hosts its OSCE stations, revision guides, and videos on geekymedics.com, with the free revision notes and OSCE guides sitting alongside paid question banks and case collections. If you are looking for a specific station type — counselling, examination, or clinical skills — start from the site's OSCE section rather than searching the whole domain, because the free guides and the paid practice tools live in different parts of the site.

What Geeky Medics offers for OSCE revision

The site describes itself as providing free medical student revision notes, OSCE guides, and MCQs, plus videos, OSCE stations, question banks, and AI virtual patients. In practice this splits into two layers:

• Free layer: revision notes, OSCE guides, and videos. These are the pages you land on from search results, and they are the core of day-to-day revision.
• Paid layer: question banks and case collections, purchased through the app subdomain (app.geekymedics.com). These are separate products with their own purchase pages.

The OSCE guide format is worth understanding before you use it. A guide such as the Myocardial Infarction Counselling OSCE Guide (credited to Yusuf Raza) is written as a walkthrough of a single station: what the scenario is, how to structure the conversation, and what the examiner is looking for. That structure repeats across the site's OSCE content, so once you have used one guide you can move between topics quickly.

Finding OSCE stations

Use the OSCE section of the site as your entry point rather than the general search bar. From there you can browse by station type:

If you are revising for a specific exam, filter by the topic you have been assigned rather than reading stations at random. The guides are self-contained, so a single station is a complete revision unit — you do not need to read surrounding pages to make sense of one.

Finding revision guides and videos

Revision guides and videos sit in the same free layer as the OSCE guides. The practical route is:

1. Identify the topic or condition you need (for example, a cardiovascular topic).
2. Open the revision note for that topic first — it gives you the underlying knowledge.
3. Then open the matching OSCE guide, which converts that knowledge into station performance.
4. Use the video where one exists to check your timing and phrasing, which is the part written guides convey least well.

This order matters. Reading an OSCE guide without the underlying revision note tends to produce recitation rather than understanding, and examiners notice the difference when they ask a follow-up question.

Free versus paid: what you actually get

The free resources cover revision notes, OSCE guides, and videos. The paid products are separate purchases and include:

• Textbooks (including a Clinical Examination Book and an OSCE Checklist Book)
• Question banks for the MLA AKT and PSA
• Case collections for ECG, ABG, blood tests, and radiology
• An MLA AKT subscription

Each of these has its own purchase page on app.geekymedics.com. The site does not state prices on the pages referenced here, so check the individual purchase page for current cost and access terms before buying. Do not assume any paid product is included with a free account — they are listed as distinct purchases.

A practical revision workflow

For a station-based exam, a workable loop is:

1. Learn the topic from the free revision note.
2. Read the matching OSCE guide and note the structure it uses.
3. Rehearse out loud against that structure, timing yourself.
4. Check the video if one exists, and compare your phrasing to the demonstrated version.
5. Test recall with MCQs or a question bank if you have access to one.

The common sticking point is skipping step 3. Reading OSCE guides feels productive but does not build the fluency that stations reward, because the exam tests spoken performance under time pressure, not recognition of a checklist.

When Geeky Medics is the right choice

Geeky Medics suits you if you want free, topic-organised revision notes and OSCE guides with a consistent station format, and you are willing to pay separately for question banks and case collections. It is less suited to you if you need a single all-in-one subscription covering both revision content and question practice, since those are sold as separate products here.

Myocardial infarction (MI) counselling is a communication station: you are not diagnosing the patient, you are explaining what has happened, what will happen next, and what they can do to reduce their risk. Geeky Medics publishes an OSCE guide on this exact station, and the approach below follows the standard structure examiners expect — introduce yourself, explain the diagnosis in plain language, cover acute management and secondary prevention, then check understanding and close safely.

Before you start: what the station is testing

You will usually be given a brief such as "Mr X has been diagnosed with an ST-elevation MI and is awaiting primary PCI. Counsel him." The marks are for communication, not cardiology depth. Examiners look for:

• A clear, jargon-free explanation of what an MI is
• An explanation of the immediate plan (e.g. angioplasty/PCI or thrombolysis)
• Secondary prevention advice (medication, lifestyle, cardiac rehab)
• Empathy, chunking, and checking understanding
• A safe closing that invites questions

Step-by-step structure

1. Introduction and consent

• Wash hands, introduce yourself with name and role
• Confirm the patient's name and date of birth
• Gain consent: "Is it okay if we talk about your test results and what happens next?"
• Chunk and check throughout — pause after each section and ask if anything needs clarifying

2. Explain the diagnosis in plain language

Avoid "myocardial infarction" as your opening word. A workable script:

"The tests show you've had a heart attack. This happens when one of the blood vessels supplying the heart muscle becomes blocked by a clot, so part of the muscle isn't getting enough oxygen."

Then check: "Does that make sense so far?" Use the patient's own words back to them if they describe it differently.

3. Explain the immediate plan

• State that the priority is to unblock the artery quickly to limit damage to the heart muscle
• Name the likely procedure (e.g. primary PCI / angioplasty with a stent) and that it is usually done under local anaesthetic with sedation
• Mention that they will be monitored and may be started on medication straight away
• Flag the possibility of transfer to a specialist centre if the local hospital does not provide PCI

4. Cover secondary prevention

This is where many candidates lose marks by rushing. Organise it into medication and lifestyle.

Medication (explain the purpose, not just the name):

Lifestyle:

• Stop smoking — offer referral to cessation services
• Diet: reduce saturated fat and salt, increase fruit and vegetables
• Alcohol within recommended limits
• Exercise as guided by cardiac rehabilitation
• Driving and work: mention that DVLA and occupational rules may apply and that the team will advise

5. Mention cardiac rehabilitation

Explain that a structured programme of exercise, education, and psychological support improves recovery and reduces recurrence. Offer to refer them.

6. Close safely

• Summarise the key points in two or three sentences
• Ask: "What questions do you have for me?"
• Signpost who to contact if symptoms return (e.g. call emergency services for ongoing chest pain)
• Thank the patient and confirm the next step

Common pitfalls

• Jargon dumping — saying "STEMI", "troponin", or "revascularisation" without translating
• Skipping the check-backs — examiners actively score these
• Forgetting the acute plan — candidates often jump straight to lifestyle and miss explaining PCI
• Not addressing fear — acknowledge that this is frightening and that the team is there to help
• Rushing the close — always leave room for questions

How to practise

Run the station aloud with a timer (typically 8–10 minutes), record yourself, and mark against the domains above. Geeky Medics' OSCE guide for MI counselling is a useful checklist to compare your wording against; pair it with their broader communication-skills material if you want to tighten your chunk-and-check technique.

Geeky Medics sells separate paid resources for different exams and skills, so the right pick depends on what you are sitting. The MLA AKT Question Bank targets the UK Medical Licensing Assessment Applied Knowledge Test, the PSA Question Bank targets the Prescribing Safety Assessment, and the ECG, ABG, blood test and radiology case collections build interpretation skills that support OSCEs and written papers rather than one specific exam. If your exam is not one of those two named tests, the case collections are the more transferable choice.

What each paid resource is for

The two question banks are exam-specific: pick the MLA AKT bank if you are preparing for the MLA AKT, and the PSA bank if you are preparing for the PSA. The four case collections are skill-specific, so they suit any exam or OSCE station that requires you to interpret that type of data.

How to choose

Work backwards from your exam format:

• Sitting the MLA AKT → MLA AKT Question Bank as your main question source.
• Sitting the PSA → PSA Question Bank.
• Preparing for OSCEs → the case collections that match your station list, plus the OSCE Checklist Book for station structure.
• Revising for a written paper that includes data interpretation → the ECG, ABG, blood test or radiology collection covering the data types your syllabus tests.
• Unsure which exam maps to which resource → check your exam's published blueprint first, then match the resource to the skills it lists.

Combining resources

The question banks and case collections test different things, so they combine well. A common pattern is to use the exam-specific question bank for knowledge recall and timed practice, then use the relevant case collection to build the interpretation skill that written questions and OSCE stations both depend on. For example, if your exam includes both prescribing questions and ECG interpretation, the PSA Question Bank plus ECG Cases covers both without overlap.

What to check before buying

• Your exam's current blueprint — confirm the question bank matches the exam you are actually sitting, since MLA AKT and PSA are distinct assessments.
• Whether the resource is standalone or part of a subscription — the site lists individual purchases and a UKMLA subscription separately, so check which one includes what you need.
• Your existing gaps — if you already interpret ECGs confidently, a case collection adds less than a question bank covering unfamiliar material.

Geeky Medics also publishes free revision notes, OSCE guides and videos, so it is worth checking whether free material already covers a topic before paying for a collection.

Geeky Medics sells paid resources for specific exams and clinical skills, alongside free revision notes, OSCE guides and MCQs. The paid catalogue is aimed at UK medical students and doctors preparing for the MLA AKT, PSA, OSCE-style clinical examinations, and interpretation-heavy case work. If you are studying for one of those assessments, the paid items below are worth checking against your exam blueprint before buying; if you mainly need general revision notes, the free content may already cover you.

Paid resources currently listed

The site also lists an MLA AKT subscription alongside the MLA AKT Question Bank, so check which one matches the access period and content you need.

Matching a resource to your exam

The key decision is whether the resource maps to the assessment you are actually sitting.

• MLA AKT: the MLA AKT Question Bank (and the MLA AKT subscription) is the direct match.
• PSA: the PSA Question Bank is the direct match.
• OSCEs and clinical examinations: the OSCE Checklist Book and Clinical Examination Book are the relevant titles, supported by the free OSCE guides and stations on the site.
• Interpretation skills: the ECG, ABG, blood test and radiology case collections are subject-specific practice rather than exam-specific question banks, so they suit anyone who needs repeated interpretation reps.

A worked example: if your next assessment is the PSA, buying the ECG Cases collection would give you useful interpretation practice but would not substitute for prescribing-focused questions. Start with the PSA Question Bank, then add case collections only if interpretation is a known weak area.

Free versus paid

Geeky Medics describes its revision guides and videos, OSCE stations, question banks and AI virtual patients as free. The paid items are separate products: question banks for named exams, printed or digital books, and case collections. In practice this means you can use the free notes, OSCE guides and MCQs to build background knowledge, and treat the paid resources as exam-specific drilling or structured reference material.

Before you buy

• Confirm the exam version your resource targets. Exam formats and blueprints change, and a question bank written for an earlier version may not reflect the current paper.
• Check whether you are buying a question bank, a subscription, or a book — the purchase pages are separate, so the access model differs between them.
• Decide whether you need exam-specific questions or general interpretation practice. The case collections sit in the second category.
• Use the free content first to identify gaps, then buy the resource that targets those gaps rather than buying the whole catalogue.

The purchase pages linked from the site are the authoritative source for what each product contains and how it is delivered.