Medicine

MCCQE1 Medicine Practice — All Domains

Practice Medicine by MCC domain, physician activity, and Internal Medicine chapters. Use this page as the main Medicine landing page for BoardQBank.

6 MCC Domains
5 Physician Activities
14 Medicine Chapters

Medicine Page Structure

MCC Dimensions of Care

Practice by care domain
HP

Health Promotion & Illness Prevention

Screening, vaccination, risk reduction, lifestyle counselling, and preventive medicine.

ScreeningVaccinesPrevention
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AC

Acute Care

Emergency presentations, unstable patients, immediate stabilization, and first-step management.

EDABCsFirst Step
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CC

Chronic Care

Long-term management of diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, COPD, CKD, and multimorbidity.

DMHTNHF
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PS

Psychosocial Aspects

Patient behaviour, adherence, cultural context, substance use, psychosocial barriers, and mental health overlap.

AdherenceContextSupport
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HM

Health Maintenance

Monitoring, follow-up, complication prevention, risk factor control, and medication safety.

Follow-upMonitoringSafety
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PC

Palliative Care

Goals of care, symptom relief, end-of-life decisions, pain, dyspnea, and communication.

GOCPainEOL
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Physician Activities

Practice by MCC task type
AD

Assessment & Diagnosis

History, physical exam, differential diagnosis, lab interpretation, imaging, and next diagnostic step.

DiagnosisLabsImaging
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TI

Therapeutic Interventions

Initial management, definitive treatment, drug choice, procedures, referral, and admission decisions.

TreatmentRxReferral
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CM

Communication

Counselling, consent, disclosure, difficult conversations, shared decision-making, and patient education.

CounsellingConsentSDM
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PB

Professional Behaviours

Ethics, confidentiality, capacity, patient safety, boundaries, duty to report, and professionalism.

EthicsCapacitySafety
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PM

Practice Management

Triage, resource use, referral, team-based care, documentation, quality improvement, and system navigation.

TriageSystemsQI
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Internal Medicine Chapters

Practice by subject chapter

Cardiology

ACS, heart failure, arrhythmias, hypertension, murmurs, valvular disease, syncope, and vascular disease.

ACSHFAFib
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RS

Respiratory Medicine

Asthma, COPD, pneumonia, PE, TB, pleural disease, lung cancer, and respiratory failure.

AsthmaCOPDPE
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GI

Gastroenterology & Hepatology

GI bleeding, cirrhosis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, IBD, abdominal pain, and abnormal liver tests.

GI BleedLFTIBD
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RN

Renal & Urology

AKI, CKD, electrolytes, acid-base disorders, nephritic/nephrotic syndromes, stones, and hematuria.

AKICKDK+
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EN

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Diabetes, thyroid disease, adrenal disease, pituitary disease, calcium disorders, and metabolic emergencies.

DMThyroidDKA
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NE

Neurology

Stroke, seizure, headache, dementia, Parkinson disease, neuropathy, weakness, and altered mental status.

StrokeSeizureAMS
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HE

Hematology

Anemia, bleeding disorders, thrombosis, anticoagulation, platelet disorders, and transfusion medicine.

AnemiaDVTINR
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ON

Oncology

Cancer screening, cancer emergencies, hypercalcemia, spinal cord compression, paraneoplastic syndromes, and palliation.

CancerScreeningPalliative
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ID

Infectious Disease

Sepsis, pneumonia, meningitis, cellulitis, UTI, HIV, hepatitis, TB, and antimicrobial selection.

SepsisABXTB
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RM

Rheumatology & MSK

Arthritis, gout, lupus, vasculitis, back pain red flags, joint pain, and inflammatory disease.

ArthritisGoutSLE
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DR

Dermatology

Rashes, skin infections, melanoma, psoriasis, eczema, drug eruptions, and dermatologic emergencies.

RashMelanomaCellulitis
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GR

Geriatrics

Falls, delirium, dementia, frailty, polypharmacy, capacity, elder safety, and functional assessment.

FallsDeliriumFrailty
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ER

Emergency & Acute Medicine

Shock, resuscitation, toxicology, acute chest pain, dyspnea, abdominal pain, and unstable presentations.

ShockABCsTox
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PV

Preventive Medicine

Screening guidelines, immunization, occupational health, environmental health, epidemiology, and population health.

Public HealthVaccineRisk
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