EMREE content outline: what the blueprint lists under Family Medicine, Public Health and where Dermatology, ENT and Paediatrics sit

What is in the EMREE content outline?

The organiser’s blueprint (cover “EMREE Blueprint Nov2025”, 32 pages) gives discipline weights in a table and then a topic outline for each discipline. The outline is easy to misread, because it is organised in a way that differs from how many people study. This guide covers two disciplines whose lists surprise people, and points out where other topics sit. Meddex is independent and is not connected to the EMREE organiser, UAE University or the National Institute of Health Specialities.

What does the outline list under Family Medicine?

Only two sub-headings, in the copy we read: Ethics, with 23 listed items, and Patient Safety, with 16. Ethics items include informed consent, do-not-resuscitate orders, organ donation, breaking bad news, discharge against medical advice, privacy, abuse, conflicts of interest, social media, sick leave, second opinions, whistleblowing and death certificates. Patient Safety items include medication safety, infection prevention, surgical safety, emergency preparedness, interprofessional communication, international patient safety goals, blood transfusion safety, diagnostic errors and prophylaxis against venous thrombosis.

So the 15 percent weight for Family Medicine is, on the outline, about ethics and safety rather than the primary care topics the name suggests. We do not know why primary care content is absent, and the outline does say questions can go beyond it.

What does it list under Public Health?

A long list: evidence-based medicine, nutrition and obesity, exercise, travel medicine, risk factors for non-communicable disease, smoking, environmental hazards, venomous bites, reportable diseases, outbreaks, herd immunity, immunisation, disease screening, mental health, principles of screening, sleep medicine, preventive cardiology, adolescent health, geriatric medicine, women’s health, and basic statistics and epidemiology. At 10 percent, this is the smallest weight, but the list is broad, which suits short single-concept questions. Our biostatistics for EMREE covers the numbers topics.

Where do other topics sit?

Three placements surprise people. Dermatology is filed under Internal Medicine, with 14 listed items. ENT and ophthalmology are filed under Surgery subspecialties. And some paediatric topics, such as cleft palate, pyloric stenosis, croup and cystic fibrosis, appear under the Internal Medicine system headings rather than only under Paediatrics. If you study by the organiser’s headings, count them where the outline puts them. EMREE discipline weights and how to plan shows how to turn the weights into time.

How to use the outline

Treat it as a coverage checklist, not a weight table. Tick each listed item once, then use your own practice results to decide where to add depth. Because the outline says questions may go beyond it, keep a catch-all slot for anything you meet in practice that is not on it. The EMREE subjects guide and the 12-week plan show a way to do that.

How much time should each discipline get?

The weights give a first split. Over a 12-week plan, Internal Medicine at 20 out of 100 suggests about a fifth of your study time, which is a little over two weeks, and Public Health at 10 about one week in twelve. That is our arithmetic, not an organiser instruction, and the blueprint says the actual distribution may differ by up to five percent in each category. Public Health and the Family Medicine ethics list suit short daily reviews rather than long blocks, so they fit into the gaps of a busy week.

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