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
13. How We Think and Decide: Heuristics, Algorithms and Cognitive Bias
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Why do smart people make bad decisions? The answer often comes down to the mental shortcuts our brains rely on without us even realising it.
In this episode, we explore how we reason and solve problems, and where we go wrong. We cover deductive and inductive reasoning, the difference between algorithms and heuristics, and the cognitive biases that lead to systematic errors in thinking.
These ideas are directly relevant to clinical reasoning and diagnostic decision making in psychiatry, where bias can have real consequences for patients.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone curious about how the mind makes decisions. Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.5.