Acumen Quizzes
Free, professor-authored, AKT-style clinical-reasoning self-tests for UK primary care. Each quiz item carries metacognitive feedback, source citations to current published guidance, and a date of last editorial review.
What an Acumen Quiz is — and is not
An Acumen Quiz is a structured clinical-reasoning self-test in the style of the MRCGP Applied Knowledge Test, pitched at extended-skills clinical depth. Each quiz is professor-authored, evidence-sourced, and date-stamped for guideline currency. Each item carries a metacognitive feedback explanation that links to the canonical published source.
Acumen Quizzes are not credentialled examinations and are not clinical decision-support tools. They do not take patient-specific information and do not produce patient-specific recommendations. They are educational self-tests intended to help UK primary care clinicians benchmark their reasoning against current evidence-based practice, and to experience the academic register of the Acumen Academy programme.
Quizzes you can take today
Each quiz is free at point of use. A structured feedback summary is generated on completion.
How Acumen Quizzes are built
Curriculum-mapped authoring
Each quiz is mapped to a defined clinical curriculum drawn from the relevant Royal College, NICE, ESC, ADA-EASD, KDIGO, BMS, BSSM or RCGP framework. Items are written by Professor Varma and reviewed against the current published guideline at the date of authoring.
AKT-style item construction
Each item presents a clinical stem in a real UK primary care presentation, followed by five answer options with one defensible best answer. Distractors are constructed to surface common cognitive errors — anchoring on a previous guideline, conflating two indications, or applying a contraindication that no longer applies under updated evidence.
Metacognitive feedback per item
After each answer, the visitor sees a structured feedback explanation that names the canonical source, explains the reasoning, and identifies the common cognitive error pattern. Feedback designed to teach, not just to grade.
External editorial review
Quiz items are reviewed by the Editorial Advisory Board (currently being convened) before publication. The Board has the right to request revision before quizzes go live to delegates.
Quarterly currency review
Every quiz is re-reviewed every 90 days against current published guidance. Where a guideline updates materially, the relevant items are revised within 14 days. Stale quizzes display a visible "review pending" warning.
Educational scope. Acumen Quizzes are educational self-tests, not credentialled examinations and not clinical decision tools. They do not take patient-specific information and do not produce patient-specific recommendations. Each item is sourced to current published guidance at the date of the most recent editorial review. Stale items are flagged and re-reviewed every 90 days.
Clinical decisions about individual patients should always be made within the relevant clinical context and current Royal College and regulatory guidance. Acumen Quizzes supplement, rather than replace, clinical judgement and the canonical guidelines they reference.
Stay informed about new quizzes
Register interest to be notified when each new Acumen Quiz publishes. One email per published quiz. Nothing in between.
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