# Mastering your fellowship: Part 4, 2025

**Authors:** Mergan Naidoo, Klaus von Pressentin, John M. Musonda, Selvandran Rangiah, Michele Torlutter, Joyce S. Musonda

PMC · DOI: 10.4102/safp.v67i1.6144 · South African Family Practice · 2025-04-15

## TL;DR

This paper is part of a series that helps family medicine doctors prepare for a major South African medical exam by showing example questions.

## Contribution

It provides sample questions from the FCFP(SA) written and clinical examinations for training purposes.

## Key findings

- The series is designed to assist registrars in understanding the format of the FCFP(SA) examination.
- It includes examples from both written and clinical components of the exam.

## Abstract

The ‘Mastering your Fellowship’ series provides examples of the question format encountered in the written and clinical examinations for the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians of South Africa (FCFP [SA]) examination. The series aims to help family medicine registrars prepare for this examination.

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** vomits (MESH:D014839), runny nose (MESH:D000086722), COVID (MESH:D000086382), PND (MESH:D019052), Gestational diabetes (MESH:D016640), anaemia (MESH:D000743), tenderness (MESH:D063806), cough (MESH:D003371), prematurity (MESH:C536271), HIV (MESH:D015658), thrombocytopenia (MESH:D013921), fever (MESH:D005334), migraines (MESH:D008881), infection (MESH:D007239), pneumonia (MESH:D011014), Depression (MESH:D003866), weight gain (MESH:D015430), maternal (MESH:D000079262), autism (MESH:D001321), Vaginal bleeding (MESH:D014592), death (MESH:D003643), perineal trauma (MESH:D009437), stroke (MESH:D020521), blood (MESH:D006402), pain (MESH:D010146), distress (MESH:D012128), clotting disorders (MESH:D020141), Illness (MESH:D002908), type 2 diabetes (MESH:D003924), mastitis (MESH:D008413), postpartum haemorrhage (MESH:D006473), Syphilis (MESH:D013587), deep vein thrombosis (MESH:D020246), meningitis (MESH:D008580), CCA (MESH:D001766), motion (MESH:D009041), liver dysfunction (MESH:D017093), penicillin allergy (MESH:D008586), viral infection (MESH:D014777), bleeding (MESH:D006470), TB (MESH:D014376), Congenital syphilis (MESH:D013590), swelling (MESH:D004487), Pertussis (MESH:D014917)
- **Chemicals:** Progesterone (MESH:D011374), Alcohol (MESH:D000438), benzathine penicillin (MESH:D010401), Meslin (-), Blood glucose (MESH:D001786), vitamin A (MESH:D014801), water (MESH:D014867), penicillin (MESH:D010406), carbohydrates (MESH:D002241), Penicillin G (MESH:D010400)
- **Species:** Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (no rank) [taxon 11676], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606], Human immunodeficiency virus (species) [taxon 12721]

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