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General practitioners need to know more and more about the complicated tests performed in hospitals. For most patients the GP is an accessible trusted and reliable source of information and advice. So when patients under hospital follow-up are confused about their treatment they often turn to their GP. In addition general practitioners have open access to an increasing array of hospital-based investigations and in the context of clinical governance they have a greater responsibility to understand and use them properly. This guide provides a compendium of all those hospital-based tests which the GP is likely to encounter organised according to specialty. It also includes the rather more specialised tests available only to the relevant consultant but which GPs might end up having to explain to perplexed patients. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field and the book is edited by a general practitioner to be presented in a uniform digestible way. This essential resource enables GPs to order secondary care investigations confidently and rationally and to answer patients'queries with authority.

Covering both medicine and surgery, this book is the essential revision companion for all medical students and a valuable source of knowledge for junior doctors at all stages of their training. It is useful both in the early preparatory phase of revision as well as for last minute cramming, and for use on the wards. This book divides the medical and surgical curricula into over twenty key sections and concisely covers the relevant information for each, including definitions, aetiology, key clinical features, investigations, and management. Examinations for undergraduate medical students and at postgraduate level can take a number of forms, including multiple choice and extended matching questions, single best answers, short notes, vivas and OSCEs. The book provides the necessary information to tackle all these exam formats successfully, as well as to manage each topic competently should it arise in clinical practice. Compact and user-friendly, this book is the ideal revision tool.

This refreshingly readable book with accompanying flash cards is ideal for all undergraduate medical students fast approaching their final exams. Consider your revision methods and contemplate exam psychology. Structure your approach and make those final weeks more bearable. Test yourself with the flash cards and consolidate your knowledge on a wide range of topics. Use them as a guide to perfecting your presentation skills and think logically about each case. Decipher data, practice interpreting x-rays and ECGs, and identify conditions from photos and pictures. This book will teach you mnemonics to help you remember the more intricate causes of certain conditions, offering invaluable support in the run up to your finals..

Completely revised and including new additional material, this second edition of the bestselling Get Through MRCGP: Clinical Skills Assessment provides candidates with a definitive, one-stop revision resource for the CSA part of the MRCGP examination. Written by an experienced author team with extensive knowledge of both national and international primary care clinical skills assessment, this book is essential reading for postgraduate candidates preparing for this challenging examination.

Single best answer (SBA) questions have been introduced into the FRCR Part 2A examination of the Royal College of Radiologists in the UK for the first time. This book of 600 SBA questions and explanatory answers has been written to aid students preparing for the exam by current trainees in clinical radiology, coordinated through The Society of Radiologists in Training (SRT). Questions are grouped by topic and each topic is split into three papers of 70 questions, with explanations separated into chapters to enable readers to either attempt a whole mock exam paper or to browse question by question. The book is a bridge between a pure revision aid and a reference text, including a bibliography of useful references for further information. Candidates for other professional exams in Radiology will find the text useful, as will and those from other specialties wishing to explore the radiological aspects of their syllabus in greater depth. This is a companion volume to Final FRCR Part A Modules 4-6 Single Best Answer MCQs by the same team.

Get Through PLAB Part 1 is an essential revision tool for all candidates preparing for the examination. PLAB Part 1 consists of 70% extended matching questions and 30% single best answer (SBA) questions. As a companion text to the bestselling PLAB: 1000 Extended Matching Questions, this book provides 500 practice SBA questions covering topics that reflect the current PLAB syllabus and presented in a format identical to the exam itself.The author, Una Coales, who has taken and successfully passed the exam herself, offers helpful hints and tips on what to expect and how to negotiate the examination successfully.Get Through PLAB Part 1 is recommended to all candidates sitting the PLAB Part 1 exam, and their trainers.

Trainees in preparation for the MRCP examination will welcome the much-anticipated new edition of this'gold standard'revision book. Revised and updated throughout to encompass new developments in medical diagnostics and therapeutics, and restructured to reflect the recent changes in the format of the Part 2 written examination, the book continues