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Claim it from your study budget

If you are a doctor in UK training, a Exameds exam plan may be claimable from your study budget. Check your local policy, and get approval before you buy.

Not tax-deductible. A study budget is money your training region or employer sets aside for your learning. It is not tax relief: HMRC does not usually allow revision courses as a tax-deductible expense. This page is general information, not tax or financial advice.

Who can claim

Exam entry fees are paid by you and are not usually funded from a study budget.

How to claim

  1. Check your local policyFind your deanery's or trust's study leave or study budget policy (search "study budget" on your region's NHS England or deanery site, or ask your medical education manager). Check that online exam preparation is allowed and whether there is a limit.
  2. Get approval firstAsk your educational supervisor to approve it before you buy. Most regions only pay for courses approved in advance. Paste the text below into your study leave form or email.
  3. Buy the planChoose 3 or 6 months. Stripe emails you an invoice that names the exam, the course, the access period and the amount. You can open it again at any time from Billing in your profile menu.
  4. Claim it backSubmit the invoice with your claim, usually through your employer's expenses system, before your region's deadline.

Your invoice

Every purchase comes with an invoice from Stripe, our payment provider, showing your name and email, the exam, what the course includes, the access start and end dates, the amount paid, and “No VAT charged (Exameds is not VAT registered)”. It has a PDF download.

Text for your study leave form

Copy the text for your exam, fill in the parts in [square brackets], and check the price before you send it.

MRCP(UK) Part 1
Study budget request: online exam preparation for MRCP(UK) Part 1

I am preparing for the MRCP(UK) Part 1 examination (Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians), which I plan to sit on [exam date]. I am requesting funding for Exameds (exameds.com), an online exam preparation course, as my exam-preparation resource for this exam.

What it provides: an online question bank and Study Tutor, with exam-style questions, explanations that reference current UK guidance, and timed mock exams that follow the exam format: Paper 1 (100 questions in 3 hours); Paper 2 (100 questions in 3 hours).

Curriculum: It is organised around the MRCP(UK) Part 1 blueprint (from the 2020/1 diet), covering 23 curriculum areas including Cardiology, Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, Dermatology, Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic medicine, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Geriatric medicine, Haematology, Infectious diseases and more.

Cost: £35 for 3 months' access or £49 for 6 months' access [choose one], as a one-off payment. No VAT is charged and it does not renew.

Evidence: an invoice naming the exam, the course, the access period and the amount is issued at purchase.

How it supports my training: [how this fits your learning plan or PDP, and any areas your supervisor has suggested you focus on].
MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written
Study budget request: online exam preparation for MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written

I am preparing for the MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written examination (Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians), which I plan to sit on [exam date]. I am requesting funding for Exameds (exameds.com), an online exam preparation course, as my exam-preparation resource for this exam.

What it provides: an online question bank and Study Tutor, with exam-style questions, explanations that reference current UK guidance, and timed mock exams that follow the exam format: Paper 1 (100 questions in 3 hours); Paper 2 (100 questions in 3 hours).

Curriculum: It is organised around the MRCP(UK) Part 2 Written blueprint (Nov 2021), covering 16 curriculum areas including Cardiology, Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, Dermatology, Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic medicine, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Geriatric medicine, Haematology, Infectious diseases and more.

Cost: £39 for 3 months' access or £55 for 6 months' access [choose one], as a one-off payment. No VAT is charged and it does not renew.

Evidence: an invoice naming the exam, the course, the access period and the amount is issued at purchase.

How it supports my training: [how this fits your learning plan or PDP, and any areas your supervisor has suggested you focus on].
FRCPath Histopathology Part 1
Study budget request: online exam preparation for FRCPath Histopathology Part 1

I am preparing for the FRCPath Histopathology Part 1 examination (Royal College of Pathologists), which I plan to sit on [exam date]. I am requesting funding for Exameds (exameds.com), an online exam preparation course, as my exam-preparation resource for this exam.

What it provides: an online question bank and Study Tutor, with exam-style questions, explanations that reference current UK guidance, and timed mock exams that follow the exam format: Written paper (125 questions in 3 hours).

Curriculum: It is organised around the RCPath Histopathology curriculum 2021 and Histopathology examination regulations 2026 (125 SBA and EMQ questions in 3 hours covering histopathology, cytopathology, autopsy practice and the basic science of pathology), covering 15 curriculum areas including Cell injury, inflammation and repair, Laboratory techniques, stains and immunohistochemistry, Molecular pathology and genomics, Autopsy practice and the law, Cervical and diagnostic cytopathology, Gastrointestinal pathology, Liver, biliary tract and pancreas, Breast pathology and more.

Cost: £49 for 3 months' access or £69 for 6 months' access [choose one], as a one-off payment. No VAT is charged and it does not renew.

Evidence: an invoice naming the exam, the course, the access period and the amount is issued at purchase.

How it supports my training: [how this fits your learning plan or PDP, and any areas your supervisor has suggested you focus on].
FRCPath Histopathology Part 2
Study budget request: online exam preparation for FRCPath Histopathology Part 2

I am preparing for the FRCPath Histopathology Part 2 examination (Royal College of Pathologists), which I plan to sit on [exam date]. I am requesting funding for Exameds (exameds.com), an online exam preparation course, as my exam-preparation resource for this exam.

What it provides: an online question bank, Study Tutor and Virtual Examiner marking, with exam-style questions, explanations that reference current UK guidance, and timed mock exams that follow the exam format: Surgical histology (20 questions in 200 minutes); Non-gynaecological cytopathology (8 questions in 80 minutes); Long cases (4 questions in 80 minutes); Frozen sections (6 questions in 40 minutes); Macros (4 questions in 40 minutes); OSPE (2 questions in 40 minutes).

Curriculum: It is organised around the RCPath Histopathology curriculum 2021, Part 2 examination format (rcpath.org) and the RCPath cancer datasets; units grouped by Exameds. `questions` is the Exameds share of cases per 100, used to plan the bank and the study plan., covering 12 curriculum areas including Gastrointestinal pathology, Liver, biliary and pancreatic pathology, Skin pathology, Breast pathology, Gynaecological and perinatal pathology, Urological and male genital pathology, Endocrine and head and neck pathology, Lymph node and haematopathology and more.

Cost: £79 for 3 months' access or £119 for 6 months' access [choose one], as a one-off payment. No VAT is charged and it does not renew.

Evidence: an invoice naming the exam, the course, the access period and the amount is issued at purchase.

How it supports my training: [how this fits your learning plan or PDP, and any areas your supervisor has suggested you focus on].

PLAB 1 and PLAB 2: not usually claimable, because study budgets are for doctors already in NHS posts.

Questions about an invoice? Email hello@exameds.com. See prices