Dr Anika Verma is an internal medicine physician who has taught international licensing candidates since 2014. She moved through the IMG pathway herself - English test, primary source verification, Gulf licensing, then UK practice - and designs WispGold's licensing courses around the steps that actually stall people rather than the ones that look hardest on paper.
She writes on the SMLE, DHA, MOH, HAAD/DOH and GMC registration routes, and leads the question-review clinics where candidates work through full rationales rather than answer keys. Her teaching principle is simple: in single-best-answer papers, mark the safest defensible action, not the cleverest one.
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