Prehospital care · Qualsafe Awards
Qualsafe Level 3 Award and Level 4 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care (RQF)
FREC 3 and FREC 4 in one app — prehospital emergency care, trauma, anatomy and physiology, and ECG recognition.
The 2 levels
Two separate qualifications sharing one app. Each has its own question pool, its own topics and its own timed mock test — pick the one you are enrolled on.
FREC 3
The Level 3 Award: scene and patient assessment, airway and resuscitation, trauma care, medical emergencies, and the anatomy underneath them.
FREC 4
The Level 4 Certificate: patient assessment and management, emergency trauma care, focused emergency and urgent care, and ECG recognition.
All 8 topics
Every topic across all 2 levels, in app order.
Foundations of Emergency Care
The responder’s role, scene safety and triage, airway assessment and management, medical gases, and resuscitation with an AED.
Foundations of Trauma Care
Mechanism of injury and blood loss, chest injuries and wounds, shock, burns and poisoning, and spinal, head and musculoskeletal injury.
Foundations of Medical Care
Assessing and handing over an unwell patient, breathing difficulties and major illness, the unresponsive or convulsing patient, and environmental emergencies.
Anatomy and Physiology
The respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous and musculoskeletal systems, plus the digestive, endocrine, integumentary and reproductive systems FREC touches on.
Patient Assessment
Assessment, triage and vital signs at level 4, the structure and conduction of the heart, coronary artery disease, and supraglottic airways and medical gases.
Emergency Trauma Care
Respiratory, musculoskeletal and nervous system anatomy, thoracic trauma and the systematic survey, and two exceptional incident types: sexual assault and major incidents.
Focused and Urgent Care
Paediatric development and the sick or injured child, adult medical conditions including mental health, respiratory illness and sepsis, plus childbirth and assisting a clinician.
ECG Recognition
Sinus rhythms, atrial and supraventricular rhythms, ventricular rhythms and ectopy, conduction abnormalities, and arrest and ACS patterns.
Why some topics say “App only”
This site publishes exactly what the free version of the app unlocks: 80 questions across 4 of 8 topics. The other 4 are part of the paid app. Their study guides are free to read here in full; it is the question pools that are in the app.
Revise anywhere, with the whole FREC 3 & 4 bank
This site publishes the app's free sample — 80 of 585 questions, across 4 of 8 topics. FREC 3 & 4 Exam Prep carries the full bank offline across all 2 levels, so you can revise on the bus, between patients, or the night before.
- All 585 questions
- Every question across all 2 levels, including the 4 topics this site cannot unlock.
- 40-question mock test
- Timed at 60 minutes, drawn from one level at a time.
- An explanation every time
- Every answer explains itself and cites where it comes from, right or wrong.
- Progress you can see
- History and per-topic results show which levels still need the work.
For iPhone, iPad and Android.
