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Communication and breaking bad news for PRES Level 3

Communication and breaking bad news accounts for roughly 25% of the PRES Level 3 blueprint. This bank has 1 item tagged to it.

How much of PRES Level 3 is communication and breaking bad news?

Around 25% of the paper, per Pre-Registration Examination System (PRES) handbook and information. That weighting is why the DocPasser mock builder samples sections in proportion rather than shuffling everything into one pile — practising a flat distribution trains you for a paper that does not exist.

Verification status. All 3 published figures on this page have been read in the source document and dated above. Source of truth: Pre-Registration Examination System (PRES) handbook and information, Medical Council of Ireland. How we verify.

Stations

  • Breaking bad news — unexpected malignancy on imaging — 9 marked criteria

The other sections of PRES Level 3

History taking · Clinical examination · Practical procedures and prescribing · Professionalism and Irish practice context

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