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Contents

Introduction

onExamination - from BMJ Learning 3

How onExamination can help you 3

Getting Started

Setting up your account 4

Signing into your account 5

My Profile 6-7

Key Features

Revision Methods 8

Revision Advice 9

onExamination Mobile 9

Questions

Work Smart 10

Answering Questions 11

Share your Score on Social Media 12

Group Learning 13

Scores

Feedback and Analysis 14-15

Self Assessment

Testing your Knowledge 16

Answering Questions 16

Module Summary 17

Video Tutorials

Key Features 18

Community & Help

Community 19

Help 19

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Introduction

onExamination – From BMJ Learning

onExamination is a leading provider of online exam revision resources and

since 1996 has supported over 167,000 medical professionals with their exam

preparation. Our extensive range of resources ensures that you can prepare for

your exams and keep your medical knowledge up-to-date.

How onExamination Can Help You

onExamination provides exam revision resources, self assessment modules and

clinical video tutorials. Whether you are a medical student, specialist trainee,

GP Trainee or Nurse, we have the medical learning resource to suit your needs.

Exam Revision Resources

We have 33 resources covering specialties including; General Medicine,

General Practice, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Child Health, Surgery, Psychiatry,

Radiology, Anaesthesiology and Medical Student. All resources are written to

exam format and at the correct level of difficulty, aligned to the curriculum

and include recent exam themes.

Self Assessment Modules

Our modules will ensure that you keep an up-to-date learning portfolio

throughout your career. onExamination is recognised by EPASS as an

accredited provider. You will receive a certificate after completing each module.

Video Tutorials

Our classic video tutorials teach you how to correctly perform clinical

examinations and interpretations by watching real time demonstrations by

clinical experts.

This guide will take you through the many useful features and functions of

the learning resources from onExamination to ensure you get the most out of

your revision account.

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Getting Started

Setting up your account

Upon receiving your voucher code from your institution visit

www.onexamination.com. Click on the link in the top right of the

onExamination homepage that says, ‘Redeem voucher code’.

You will then be asked to enter your voucher code into the box and

click ‘Submit Code’

Once you have submitted your code, you will see all the

subscriptions available to you. Important - Remember to tick

the Terms and Conditions box before proceeding. Then, simply

choose the correct subscription for you and click the ‘Redeem

Subscription’ button.

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Getting Started

You will then be taken to the sign in page where you will need to

enter a valid email address and password in order to access your

account. Please be sure to tick all terms & conditions boxes before

proceeding. Then click the ‘continue’ button.

Once this process is completed you can use your personal login

details anywhere; at home, remotely and from your institution.

You do not need to enter the voucher code again.

Signing into your account

You can sign into your account by clicking on the ‘Sign In’

link in the top right corner of the onExamination homepage

(onExamination.com). Alternatively you can type,

my.onexamination.com into your browser.

Enter the email address you used to set-up your account and the

password you created. Then click ont he ‘Sign In’ button. This will

take you directly to the homepage/profile section of your account

where you can view your revision resources and start answering

questions.

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My Profile

You will find your, ‘My Profile’ tab at the top right of the page next

to the ‘Sign Out’ tab.

‘My Details’ section will allow you to enter / change your personal

details including adding a profile picture. Here you will also be able

to opt-in / out of receiving onExamination and BMJ Group emails

and choose whether you would like to receive a weekly progress

email.

‘My Exam Dates’ – This area allows you to enter your exam

date which in turn will trigger specific notifications that will be

personal to your account including a reminder of the end of your

subscription and hints and tips about how you should be using your

account at certain points during your subscription.

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My Profile

You can also ‘Change your password’ in your ‘My Profile’ area and

print a receipt of your purchase from the ‘My Receipts’ section.

The last tab within your Profile area is, ‘My Achievements’. Here

you will find a list of ‘achievement badges’ that you can achieve

whilst holding a subscription with onExamination. Once achieved,

the badges will show in the Profile section of your account. These

badges will remain on your account so that when you return to us

for a future exam you can build on the badges you achieved the

first time around.

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Key Features

onExamination provides you with different methods of revision to

suit your own personal style.

Revision Methods

• Work Smart – work by curriculum area to focus your efforts

topic by topic.

• Work Hard – this progresses you systematically through all

questions in your chosen resource.

• Group Learning – this quiz format revision tool lets you compete

against your peers in 10-question rounds whilst testing your

knowledge.

• AdaptForMeTM – our question system adapts to your level of

ability to give you questions that are pitched to improve your

learning faster.

• Saved Tests – create your own test and answer questions against

the clock. Use the exam theme past papers we have created for

you to ensure you are fully prepared for the actual exam.

These revision methods can be found on your homepage in your

‘my’ account or within the ‘Exam Revision’ tab. AdaptForMeTM can

be found within the Work Smart section.

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Key Features

Revision Advice

Under the ‘Exam Revision’ tab you will find, ‘Revision Advice’. Click

here to get hints and tips on the best approach for your exam. You

will get advice on how to answer the different question types and

how your revision resource can help you to prepare for your exam.

onExamination Mobile

You can access your revision resource on your mobile.

onExamination Mobile displays questions in the Work Hard mode

enabling you to work systematically through your question bank.

Questions are presented from topics chosen in a random pattern.

You can access your revision resource on any smart phone by

visiting, m.onexamination.com. Just enter your account email

and password. This means you can access questions wherever and

whenever you want providing there is internet connection.

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Questions

Work Smart

onExamination gives you the opportunity to answer questions by

topic, enabling you to focus your study on a particular area of the

curriculum. You are also able to choose questions by format, i.e,

EMQ, MCQ, BOF etc.

To start answering questions click the ‘Work Smart’ link under the

‘Exam Revision’ tab.

Select the exam that you want to practice from the ‘Exam Resource’

box. Below this you will then have a number of options for creating

your own specific bank of questions.

• Select the specific question type you would like to answer or just

leave the selection as ‘ALL’ to see all questions.

• You can choose to see all questions available or only those that

you have not seen before. This ensures that you don’t have to

repeat a question.

• Question Difficulty can also be selected on a 5-point scale from

Easy to Hard or you can choose the AdaptForMeTM option here.

• Select questions based on a ‘Keyword’ to pull out all questions

containing that word / phrase, i.e, ‘blood’, ‘paracetamol’, ‘birth’ etc.

• Choose the subject areas you would like to revise by selecting the

‘Filter by Category’ section. Study all of the categories or pick

individual topics.

• Select how many questions you would like on the dropdown list.

• Finally, click the ‘Generate Exam’ button to begin your revision.

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Questions

Answering Questions

onExamination’s revision resources not only test your medical

knowledge, but contain explanations to improve your learning.

Your revision resource provides immediate feedback to questions

answered. The interactive case problems are marked as you proceed,

providing answers, explanations and further reading.

Select an answer from the list and click the ‘submit answer’ button

to see whether you have answered correctly.

Click ‘Next Question’ to progress through your revision questions.

You also have the option to ‘Skip Question’ if you like and/or ‘Tag

Question’ to come back to it at a later date.


Questions

Share your Score on Social Media

Each time you complete a Work Smart session you have the

opportunity to show your scores on social media sites. By clicking

on the Facebook or Twitter icons you can post your score to

Facebook with your comments and tweet your score on Twitter. Let

your friends know how well you are doing with your revision. Other

social media sites are available, just click on the plus icon.


Questions

Group Learning

This quiz format revision tool lets you compete against your peers

whilst testing your knowledge. Each quiz offers questions randomly

selected from your exam revision resource. At the end of each set

of ten questions you will be able to see the scores for those who

have entered and know how you finished on the leaderboard.

You can join the quiz at any point and start answering questions

when the next question begins. Use the ‘chat’ function to comment

on questions and give your feedback on the answers.


Scores

Feedback and Analysis

onExamination provides detailed analysis and feedback on your

progress. By selecting the ‘Scores’ tab in your account, you will see

how many questions you have answered correctly, your average

score and how you compare with others.

These scores and comparisons against your peers will provide you

with a good indication of your progress and define the areas where

you are most competent. This will also show which areas you need

to focus on.


Scores

Using the navigational tabs on the top of your toolbar you will be

able to view various features that will provide feedback on your

performance. The ‘Category Overview’ tab will let you view your

‘Current Performance’ and ‘General Progress’.

The General Progress Chart will provide you with the number of

questions you have answered correctly or incorrectly. They highlight

your areas of strength and weakness so that you can save future study

time by focussing on specific areas relevant to your learning needs.

You will also find, ‘Session Analysis’ and ‘Day-by-Day Analysis’ which

can help you monitor your progress on a shorter review cycle.

Within scores you will also see a ‘Learning Journal’ tab. Just click the

‘Add a New Journal Entry’ to record any notes on your revision session.

You can use the Learning Journal to note down scores from specific

sessions or just reminders on which topics you want to study next.


Self Assessment

Testing your Knowledge

Any self assessment modules you have purchased will show

under the ‘Self Assessment’ tab. Self assessment modules not only

test your medical knowledge but explanations will improve your

learning.

Answering Questions

Click the module’s name and you will be taken to a summary on

what you will learn by the time you have completed it. It will also

show you the required pass mark. Click the ‘Start Module’ link, then

the ‘Start’ button to begin answering questions.

• Select an answer from the list and click the ‘Submit Answer’

button to see whether you have answered correctly.

• Click ‘Next Question’ to progress through the questions.


Self Assessment

Module Summary

When you have completed all the questions you will see your

module summary which tells you your mark and how many

questions you got right or wrong.

Pass

If you did reach the required pass mark you will have the

opportunity to add any reflections you may want to note from

working through this module. You may want to note what you

have learnt and how you might develop this knowledge in the

future. Add your comments into the ‘Edit your reflection here’

box and ‘Save’.

Once this is complete you are able to ‘Print Your Certificate’ and

it will be provided as a PDF file that you can download to your

computer and print for your portfolio.

Printing your Certificate

Before you print your certificate please make sure you’ve entered

your ‘certification body number’ (GMC number, or membership

number of equivalent organisation) on the ‘My Details’ page under

‘My Profile’.

Fail

If you did not reach the required pass mark you will have the

opportunity to review the questions again or if logging in at

another time, go to your ‘Self Assessment’ tab and in the ‘My

Modules’ tab you will see under your module that there will be

a link to ‘Retry Incorrect’ questions or ‘Re-sit’ the entire module.

Video Tutorials

Key Features

If you have purchased a video tutorial it will be displayed under

the video tutorial tab. Once you have clicked on the video title of

your choice a video screen will show on your computer. To start the

video, click on the arrow in the middle of the screen.

The videos can be viewed as many times as you like, stopping them

and starting them as required.


Community & Help

Community

Under the ‘Community’ tab you will find the Latest News section,

and the onExamination quiz. You are able to vote on news articles

which are shown on your ‘My Activity’ feed on your homepage and

you can share the articles on social media sites. Post the article

on Facebook by clicking on the Facebook icon or tweet them on

Twitter by clicking on the Twitter icon. Other social media sites

are available, just click on the plus icon.

Help

In this section you will find the following support information;

FAQ - Here you will find some of our most commonly asked

questions about our site and its features.

Request Help - Submit a message or query and our support

executive will get back to you.

System Requirements - This section details a list of system

requirements in order to run some of our features.

Support Feedback - A short customer questionnaire.


onexamination.com

onExamination, 9th Floor, Gleider House, Ty Glas Road,

Llanishen, Cardiff, CF14 5EH, UK

Tel: +44 (0)207 874 7335

Fax: +44 (0)207 554 6330

Email: [email protected]

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