Essential Knowledge Challenge
The Essential Knowledge Challenge (EKC) is a fifty item on-line
self assessment knowledge test, with questions sourced from the
major items, briefings and reference material found within the
relevant Essential Knowledge Update (EKU) modules.
Each EKC is released six months after the its associated EKU.
The question format includes Single Best Answer, Extended Matching
Questions, Clinical Photograph and Statistical Graph interpretation
as well as clinical algorithm flow charts. Once you have completed
the Challenge you will be able print off a certificate to add to
your appraisal folder.
The answers to an Essential Knowledge Challenge are available to
users six months after their release. An Essential Knowledge Update
and Challenge are archived 18 months after the release of the
Update.
Visit the Online
Learning Environment to access the latest Essential Knowledge
Challenges
Now Available: Essential Knowledge Challenge 8!
Take the new Essential
Knowledge Challenge (EKC8) 
- an applied online knowledge test that
enables GPs to test their learning on the 8th edition of the
Essential Knowledge Updates. By testing existing knowledge and
highlighting areas for improvement, EKC is an invaluable asset in
each GP’s continuing professional development. EKC8 is based on the
content of the 8th edition of the Essential Knowledge
Updates.
Now Released: Answers to Essential Knowledge
Challenge 7!
The answers to Essential Knowledge Challenge 7 have now been
released. Users can continue to participate within the Challenge
for self-directed learning purposes; however you will be no longer
able to obtain a certificate for inclusion within your appraisal
folder or to achieve CPD credits.
Please note, if you
completed a Challenge before the answers were released you will
still be presented with the option to download or print your
certificate. To review the answers to Challenges 1 to 7 please log
on to the Online Learning
Environment.
Revalidation and Continuing Professional
Development
It is acknowledged within the current Revalidation
Guide 
that the
Essential Knowledge Updates and Challenges are an acceptable tool
to help demonstrate that a GP is updating their knowledge. Through
participating in the Essential Knowledge Challenge and by studying
the associated modules in the corresponding Knowledge Update, GPs
will be able to award themselves credits under the planned
RCGP
CPD credit system . The RCGP is currently in the process of developing an
ePortfolio that will enable GPs to record their
CPD in support of Revalidation.