Specifically designed to help candidates revise for the MRCS exam, this book features 250 extended matching questions divided into 96 themes, covering the whole syllabus. Containing everything candidates need to pass the MRCS Part A EMQ section of the exam, the book focuses intensively on topics relating to principles of surgery-in-general, including peri-operative care, post-operative management and critical care, surgical technique and technology, management and legal issues in surgery, clinical microbiology, emergency medicine and trauma management, and principles of surgical oncology. The high level of detail included within the questions and their explanations allows effective self-assessment of knowledge and quick identification of key areas requiring further attention. Varying approaches to extended matching questions are used, giving effective exam practice and guidance through revision and exam technique. This includes clinical case questions, positively-worded questions, requiring selection of the most appropriate of relatively correct answers; 'two-step' or 'double-jump' questions, requiring several cognitive steps to arrive at the correct answer; as well as factual recall questions, prompting basic recall of facts.
Featuring a wealth of practice questions, MRCS Part A: 500 SBAs and EMQs allows trainees to test themselves on everything they need to know to pass the MRCS Part A exam.
With 40% new content, including the addition of trauma and orthopaedic questions to provide complete coverage of surgical specialties, this book remains an essential revision tool designed to maximise chances of exam success.
With over 350 SBAs and 50 EMQs, this book will provide helpful pointers for further study throughout training, and is essential reading for those preparing to sit Part A of the MRCS examination.
SBAs and EMQs for the MRCS.: Part A
Written specifically for the new intercollegiate examination, this book contains extended matching items with full explanations for every question.
This revision pack is specifically designed to help candidates revise the MRCS syllabus. This two-volume set features 350 multiple choice questions in the SBA format, and 250 EMQ questions divided into 96 themes.
This text offers 600 EMQ items for the Clinical Problem Solving paper of the Intercollegiate MRCS examination.
MCQs and EMQs for the MRCS comprises 570 multiple choice questions and extended matching questions in the format of the latest MRCS examination.
A Achalasia B Oesophageal carcinoma C Pharyngeal pouch D Inflammatory stricture E Plummer–Vinson syndrome A 73-year-old homeless man has a history of recurrent sore throats for which he has completed a course of antibiotics, ...
Specifically designed for the current requirements of the MRCS examination, this book reflects the balance between basic science and clinical surgery.