MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
Hello! My name is Dr Aalap Asurlekar, and I am a psychiatry trainee in the UK. I created MRCPsych on the Go to make revision for the MRCPsych exams easier to fit around busy clinical work.
This podcast is designed for psychiatry trainees preparing for Paper A, B, CASC but also, medical students. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics and explains them in clear, structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts.
Topics range from psychopathology, psychopharmacology, neuroscience, sociology, behavioral science, psychological therapies to clinical assessment. Episodes include exam style questions and clinical scenarios to support active recall and exam preparation.
The aim is to provide focused, high yield psychiatry revision you can listen to during commutes, walks or between shifts.
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MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
2. High-Yield Learning Theory: Reinforcement, Generalisation and Extinction
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What do phobias, addiction and anxiety disorders all have in common? They are all maintained by the same behavioural mechanisms that this episode unpacks.
In this episode, we build on the foundations of learning theory by exploring reinforcement, stimulus generalisation and the extinction of conditioned responses. We cover positive and negative reinforcement, how learned responses spread to new situations, and why behaviours that are no longer reinforced can be remarkably difficult to extinguish. These mechanisms are central to understanding how psychiatric symptoms develop and persist.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone who wants to understand the science behind behaviour change. Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.1.