The three frameworks
SIGNAL
For clinical scenarios
A rushed clinical answer buries the safe reasoning a panel is listening for. SIGNAL gives you an ordered walk-through: recognise the situation, assess systematically, act, escalate early with a clear ask, and communicate the handover, so the safe doctor is audible in every answer.
PACES
For ethical & professional scenarios
Probity, consent, capacity and conflict questions reward a considered, balanced response. PACES is the repeatable frame that keeps you from being caught off guard: you gather the facts, weigh the duties, and land on a defensible course of action.
SAFE
The signalling layer
The single behaviour that most reliably lifts a borderline score: making your safety-netting and escalation explicit rather than assumed. SAFE threads those cues through every answer, whatever the framework underneath it.
The arc across three sessions