# Practising for Public Health Medicine (MFPH) with MedMock

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## What is the MFPH OSCE, and how do you practise for it?

The Faculty of Public Health Final Membership Examination (MFPH) is six role-play scenarios from everyday public health practice. For each you have eight minutes to read a candidate briefing pack, then eight minutes to carry out the task, such as a briefing, a short talk or a media interview, usually with a trained role-player while an examiner observes. Every scenario is marked on five competency areas. The real examination does not say what a station is about; these practice stations each draw on one area of public health practice. MedMock lets you practise it out loud against an AI patient, with examiner-style feedback on any station you finish.

Dates: The Faculty publishes MFPH (formerly Part B) sittings on its examinations pages; no upcoming dates were readable when checked. (source: Faculty of Public Health).
All MFPH dates: https://medmock.com/exams/public-health-medicine-mfph#dates

## Stations you can practise

- **Population Data Scenario** — Population data: the briefing pack centres on local figures, such as a suspected cluster, uptake by area or a death rate in the news, which you explain accurately to the person you meet.
- **Research Evidence Scenario** — Research evidence: the briefing pack summarises a study or an evaluation, and you weigh and explain the evidence for a journalist, campaigner, manager or trainee.
- **Health Improvement Scenario** — Health improvement: tobacco, alcohol, healthy weight, gambling, mental wellbeing or the wider determinants of health, with a councillor, partner, journalist or member of the public.
- **Commissioning Scenario** — Commissioning: advise on the evidence, cost-effectiveness or priority of a service, test or pilot, often with an NHS board chair, commissioner or clinician.
- **Implementing Change Scenario** — Implementing change: introduce or change a service, engage a sceptical clinician or campaign group, or resolve a conflict between partner organisations.
- **Health Protection Scenario** — Health protection: an outbreak, an immunisation or screening issue, or an environmental hazard, with a head teacher, care home manager, journalist or council officer.

## Sample MFPH questions

- *Research Evidence Scenario:* A newspaper has reported a study linking a common food additive to heart disease. Explain what the evidence does and does not show to the health correspondent.
- *Health Improvement Scenario:* Brief a sceptical councillor on why the council should fund a stop-smoking service for tenants in social housing.

## Example scenarios

- *Population Data Scenario:* Residents believe there is a cancer cluster near a closed factory. Using the figures in your briefing pack, explain to their representative what the numbers do and do not show.
- *Research Evidence Scenario:* A newspaper has reported a study linking a common food additive to heart disease. Explain what the evidence does and does not show to the health correspondent.
- *Health Improvement Scenario:* Brief a sceptical councillor on why the council should fund a stop-smoking service for tenants in social housing.
- *Commissioning Scenario:* Advise the chair of the integrated care board's commissioning committee whether to expand a pilot, using the evaluation summary in your pack.
- *Implementing Change Scenario:* Meet the chair of a campaign group opposing the move of a local clinic into a community health hub.
- *Health Protection Scenario:* A local radio journalist interviews you about measles cases linked to a primary school.

## How a practice session works

1. **Choose a station** — Pick from the MFPH stations — all 6 that MedMock runs, or let MedMock surprise you the way exam day will.
2. **Have the conversation** — Speak naturally, out loud. The AI patient responds in real time — with emotions, cues and unexpected turns, just like a real encounter.
3. **Get instant feedback** — The moment you finish, you get specific, examiner-style feedback and a score — what you did well, what cost you marks, and precisely what to fix before the next attempt.

## Price

Start with a one-off £5 taster: 30 credits (30 minutes of speaking practice), not a subscription. After that, or instead, £69 per month for 350 credits. One credit is one minute of spoken practice, or two typed exchanges, and where the examiner or patient speaks first, that opening line is free. Examiner scorecards, mark schemes and model answers for finished sessions are included at no extra credit cost. Cancel at any time. Full details: https://medmock.com/pricing

## Frequently asked questions

### How does the feedback work?

When you finish a station you can have it marked, and the scorecard comes back in seconds — what you did well, what cost you marks, and exactly what to work on next. Scorecards, mark schemes and model answers are included at no extra credit cost.

### Can I practise specific MFPH stations?

Yes. You can pick any of the 6 stations to drill a weak area, or run a mixed set to simulate the real exam.

### How much does it cost?

You can start with a one-off £5 taster: 30 credits, which is 30 minutes of speaking practice, with no subscription. After that, or at any time, you can choose a monthly plan, which includes a monthly credit allowance. Current prices are on the pricing page.

## About MedMock

MedMock is a web app for practising the spoken parts of UK medical and dental exams and interviews out loud. The candidate talks; an AI patient, examiner or interview panel answers in real time by voice; and when the station ends MedMock marks the performance against that exam's assessment domains and shows the model answer.

It covers 104 spoken exams and interviews — OSCEs, vivas, structured oral exams, simulated consultations, and specialty-training and consultant interviews. It does not cover written or multiple-choice papers, and it is not a question bank.

It was founded by Mr Sam Nahas, MBBS BSc MEd FRCS (Tr & Orth), a practising consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the UK, with co-founder and CTO Arjan Jandu. It is operated by VirtualPatients Ltd (company no. 16303492).

Pricing: a one-off £5 taster of 30 credits to try it (not a subscription, one per account), and a monthly subscription from £20 to £129 depending on the exam (student exams cost least, fellowship exit exams and consultant interviews most), or £199 to £275 for the Intensive plans, which carry more credits. One credit is one minute of spoken practice, or two typed exchanges, and where the examiner or patient speaks first, that opening line is free. Examiner scorecards, mark schemes and model answers for finished sessions are included at no extra credit cost. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.

It runs in a web browser on a laptop or phone; spoken practice needs a microphone. There is no public demo: practice needs an account with credits, usually from the taster or a monthly plan.

MedMock is for adults aged 18 or over. Sign-up asks every new account to confirm it.

MedMock is a revision tool. The patients, examiners and cases are fictional and AI-generated; it is not clinical guidance and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Royal College, the GMC, the GDC or any examining body.

Start with the £5 taster: https://medmock.com/auth/signup