Day 5 of Thirty - Days Intensive ADC Part 1 Practice Program
Before You Start: Day-5 Student Guidance (Click to Read)
What Day-5 is designed to train
Day-5 trains diagnostic prioritisation. You are not being tested on how many diagnoses you know, but on whether you can decide which diagnosis fits best with the information provided.
ADC rewards commitment with justification, not hesitation.
How Day-5 questions are different
Earlier days trained you to decide when to act and when to wait. Day-5 trains you to decide:
- What is the most likely diagnosis?
- What diagnosis must not be missed, even if less likely?
Most wrong answers occur because candidates:
- Try to keep multiple diagnoses open
- Over-investigate instead of interpreting
- Treat possibility as probability
How to read Day-5 clinical scenarios
- Identify the single most decisive clue
- Choose the diagnosis that explains all findings together
- Recognise the tempting but weaker alternative (the trap)
- Ask if there is a dangerous diagnosis that must be excluded
Decision discipline required
- Do not list differentials mentally
- Do not chase rare conditions unless prompted
- Do not rely on investigations to rescue weak reasoning
ADC expects you to rank diagnoses, not collect them.
Common Day-5 traps
- Choosing a diagnosis because it sounds serious, not because it fits
- Escalating to imaging without justification
- Treating radiographs without clinical correlation
- Assuming combined lesions without evidence
- Selecting answers that say “could be” instead of “most likely”
What ADC is rewarding on Day-5
- Pattern recognition
- Diagnostic closure at the correct time
- Safety awareness without paranoia
- Confidence grounded in evidence
Time management advice
- Read each scenario once carefully
- Identify the decisive clue, not every detail
- If two answers seem possible, ask:
Which explains more with fewer assumptions?
How to review after submission
- Note where you hesitated between diagnoses
- Identify which clue you underweighted
- Track whether you tend to over-diagnose or avoid commitment
Remember:
ADC does not reward diagnostic generosity.
It rewards diagnostic precision.