A new MRCPCH Clinical experience is here!

We've introduced a completely rebuilt Pastest MRCPCH Clinical experience.

The update brings your MRCPCH Clinical resources together in a clearer, more connected workspace, making it easier to move between different types of revision, keep your own notes and understand how your preparation is progressing.

Whether you’re working through patient cases, building your clinical knowledge with teaching cases, practising spot diagnoses or using flashcards for quick recall, the new experience is designed to help you manage your clinical exam preparation more effectively.

What's changed?

The new MRCPCH Clinical product brings several improvements to the way you study:

• Teaching Cases, Patient Cases, Spot Diagnosis and Flashcards are accessible from one side panel.
• You can switch between different resources while keeping your Notes open in your main workspace.
• A new Insights area helps you see how much you’ve completed and where you’re performing well.
• Improved progress and performance tracking gives you a clearer picture of your preparation.

The new version is a rebuilt MRCPCH Clinical product rather than an update applied to the existing product.

Everything you need from one side panel

One of the biggest changes is the way your MRCPCH Clinical resources are organised.

Instead of navigating between different areas of the product, your main learning resources is available from a side panel alongside your main study workspace.

Teaching Cases

Teaching Cases help you build the underlying clinical knowledge and reasoning required for the MRCPCH Clinical exam.

You can use them to review important conditions and presentations, consider differential diagnoses and develop the clinical reasoning needed when approaching children and young people in an exam setting.

Patient Cases

Patient Cases give you the opportunity to apply your knowledge to more exam-focused clinical scenarios.

You can work through presentations in a structured way and consider the clinical findings, diagnosis and wider discussion points you might encounter during the exam.

Existing Case Extras, including images, sounds and examiner documents, continue to be available, alongside topic summaries and top tips. 

Spot Diagnosis

Spot Diagnosis provides focused practice in recognising important clinical signs and presentations.

This gives you a quick way of developing your visual recognition skills and becoming more confident identifying key findings.

Flashcards

Flashcards continue to provide a quicker way of revising important exam-relevant information.

They'll be particularly useful for reinforcing knowledge you've already covered or fitting shorter revision sessions around your other preparation.

Keep your Notes alongside your revision

The new layout makes it much easier to build your own revision notes while using Pastest.

Your Notes remain available in the main workspace while you access learning materials through the side panel.

This means you can work through a Patient Case, check a Teaching Case, review a Flashcard or practise a Spot Diagnosis while continuing to add to your own notes.

Over time, this should help you create a more useful personal record of the areas you've covered and the points you want to remember before your exam.

Test your understanding as you go

Most Cases also include quiz questions.

Rather than only reading through the material, you have regular opportunities to check whether you've understood the important learning points and identify areas that may need further revision.

Your answers also contribute towards the progress and performance information available within the new product.

See your progress with Insights

The new MRCPCH Clinical experience also introduces an Insights section.

Clinical exam preparation isn't simply about achieving a particular percentage score, so Insights are designed to give you an indication of your progress rather than predict how you'll perform in the real exam.

You can use it to understand things such as:

• How many Cases you've completed
• Which areas you've spent the most time preparing for
• Where you're performing particularly well
• Which areas could benefit from some additional revision

Why have we made these changes?

Preparing for MRCPCH Clinical requires a different approach from preparing for a written exam.

You'll need to combine clinical knowledge with examination skills, communication, recognition of clinical signs and the ability to work through a case in a structured way.

We've rebuilt the MRCPCH Clinical product to better support that type of preparation.

Our aim is to make it easier to move between different forms of revision, test your knowledge as you go, maintain useful notes and get a clearer picture of how your preparation is developing.

What happens if I'm already using MRCPCH Clinical?

The old version of MRCPCH Clinical is being turned off on 15th December 2026. If you're on the old product and your access expires before this date then you don't need to do anything.

If your access expires after this date then we have added the new resource to your account, so you can start making use of it asap. This is highly recommended in order to minimise the disruption to your exam preparation.

Existing users of the old MRCPCH Clinical resource may also notice that the expiry date of the old MRCPCH Clinical product has been adjusted to 15th December 2026 to coincide with it being switched off. Don't worry though, the new MRCPCH Clinical product is aligned to your original expiry date.

How can I access the old MRCPCH Clinical product?

If you need temporary access to the previous version, you can:

1. Go to Manage Exams in your Pastest account.
2. Find your old MRCPCH Clinical product.
3. Select the option to Reactivate your access.
4. Following the purchase, continue using the previous product during the available transition period.

This option is there to provide continuity for users who need a little more time before moving across to the new experience.

The old MRCPCH Clinical product will be phased out by the end of 2026, so we recommend moving across to the new version for your ongoing revision.

What do I need to do now?

For the moment, nothing will change.

You can continue using your existing MRCPCH Clinical product as normal.

The new experience will be added to the accounts of existing users.

We recommend starting to use the new product for your ongoing preparation so you can take advantage of the improved layout, integrated Notes, progress tracking and Insights.