Learning that adapts to
how you actually think.
CogniLoop builds data-driven preparation tools for postgraduate medical exams — starting with emergency medicine.
Our Mission
Why CogniLoop exists.
Most exam preparation is a static bank of questions. You answer them, get a score, and move on — with little insight into why you're struggling or where your time is best spent.
CogniLoop is building preparation that measures how you learn — not just whether you got a question right — and uses that signal to make every hour of study count.
The mission is to make exam preparation efficient and fair, especially for international medical graduates building careers in new healthcare systems.
First Product
Our first product: MrcemUltra.
MrcemUltra is preparation for the MRCEM Primary examination (Royal College of Emergency Medicine), built specifically for international medical graduates. Curriculum-aligned theory, high-yield question practice, and a study experience designed around the real exam blueprint.
Curriculum-aligned
Content mapped directly to the MRCEM Primary blueprint — nothing surplus, nothing missing.
Built for IMGs
Designed with the international medical graduate journey in mind — the context, the pressure, and the path forward.
Designed around the exam
Structure, weighting, and question style all mirror the real MRCEM Primary examination blueprint.
MrcemUltra is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or otherwise connected to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
The Approach
Preparation that learns with you.
Every time you answer a question, CogniLoop captures more than whether you got it right. That richer signal is what makes it different.
Measure what matters
Every question captures not just accuracy, but how long you took and how confident you felt. All three dimensions, every time.
Find the real gaps
Combining time, accuracy, and confidence reveals weak spots a score alone hides — topics you get right but slowly, or right but unsure.
Adapt the plan
That signal shapes a personalised study path so you spend time where it changes your result — not rehearsing what you already know.
This is the approach CogniLoop is building toward — a system that grows more useful the more you use it.
Vision
Where we're going.
Vertical — the full RCEM pathway
MRCEM Primary → MRCEM Intermediate SBA & OSCE → FRCEM: the complete emergency medicine training arc, one platform, end to end.
Horizontal — adjacent UK postgraduate markets
The same adaptive preparation model applied across adjacent UK postgraduate medical examinations — where international graduates face the same structural challenges.
About
Built by a doctor, for doctors.
CogniLoop was founded by Dr Abdullah Akbar, a physician who has sat these examinations himself and understands the path international medical graduates take into UK practice.
The tools CogniLoop builds come from lived experience of what's missing — and a belief that better preparation technology changes outcomes for doctors and, ultimately, for patients.