As three young, dynamic GPs working in London we realised that there was a dearth of well written up-to-date MCQ revision guides with satisfactory explanations. Since we all achieved distinctions in the MRCGP exam we believed we could incorporate our revision notes on hot topics to develop a high-quality contemporary MCQ resource...This comprehensive revision aid covers the entire nMRCGP syllabus over four exam papers. It's the most up-to-date guide available for the new exam and, alongside its online resources, provides a wide-ranging tool for candidates. It's easy to read and comprehend, and exam topics are grouped in the index to make for easy reference and further study.

Offers revision for the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT). Featuring over 300 questions and with chapters mirroring the GP syllabus, this book provides practice of various questions format used in the exam. It presents answers with explanations to help develop learning and understanding.

As three young, dynamic GPs working in London we realised that there was a dearth of well written up-to-date MCQ revision guides with satisfactory explanations. Since we all achieved distinctions in the MRCGP exam we believed we could incorporate our revision notes on hot topics to develop a high-quality contemporary MCQ resource...This comprehensive revision aid covers the entire nMRCGP syllabus over four exam papers. It's the most up-to-date guide available for the new exam and, alongside its online resources, provides a wide-ranging tool for candidates. It's easy to read and comprehend, and exam topics are grouped in the index to make for easy reference and further study.

Notes for the MRCGP This classic book has been providing help for candidates of the MRCGP exam for over 20 years. Now fully updated for UK trained doctors wishing to obtain a Certificate of Completion of Training in General Practice, this new edition covers all three required components of the integrated assessment programme. It provides sample questions for the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT), practice cases for Clinical Skill Assessment (CSA) and a guide to Workplace Based Assessment (WPBA). The chapters follow the 16 sections of the RCGP curriculum and include summaries of the current evidence base with clinical guidelines, examination tips, revision tactics, and advice on where to get support – but not just at the crucial time of exams – it includes invaluable information for GPs starting their first year in practice and helps provide the “life skills” needed to be a GP, including topics relevant for the rest of a GP’s career and their “continuing professional development” – appraisal, revalidation, managing change, teamwork, burnout, and other areas of self care.

Reflecting the RCGP Membership exams, this edition offers essential preparation for the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT), and includes five practice papers with detailed answer explations. It is suitable for GP registrars, newly-appointed GPs, candidates sitting the new MRCGP, and those GPs undertaking revalidation.

This new edition of the MRCGP Study Guide has been purposely revised and updated to comprehensively cover every aspect of the membership examination of the Royal College of General Practitioners. It takes you through all the main medical topics fundamental to general practice, all relevant non- clinical areas, and then finally tests you with an AKT and CSA style examination. All the information you need in one place. This guide can be used as a source of reference, and for revising, to ensure you are perfectly prepared. It saves you the colossal amount of time you would otherwise need to cover the same ground.

This book helps candidates pass the AKT (Applied Knowledge Test) paper in the new MRCGP. It features nearly 400 questions using all the formats featured in the AKT exam to provide the reader with the ideal exam preparation. Importantly, detailed answers are also given, complete with references to guide readers to the supporting evidence. This new edition features even more questions in every format: a total of 300 extended matching and single best answer questions over 50 algorithm completion questions including management of coeliac disease, symptoms and signs suggestive of chronic heart failure, and management of the unconscious adult over 30 picture questions, with all photographs presented in full colour "

Most comprehensive guide available contains 500 questions covering all sections of the MRCGP AKT, together with a full mock test that can be completed under timed conditions to help candidates successfully pass their MRCGP AKT.

Get Through MRCGP: AKT provides prospective candidates with a wealth of practice material for this relatively new examination, covering all the different question types that are encountered in the actual examination. The questions are divided into papers for ease of use, and, in order to give the reader a really useful revision experience, the author has concentrated on the themes and subjects which candidates often answer poorly. It is improvement in a candidate's areas of weakness which will allow them to pass the exam. To this end, the author has included extended explanations in the answers section, especially in subjects where candidates often perform poorly. This allows candidates to gain confidence answering these more challenging questions, which may be the crucial ones in any exam. Providing the reader with an invaluable bank of material to help them achieve success in this exam, Get Through MRCGP: AKT is an essential revision guide for all GPs preparing for the Applied Knowledge Test.

British Medical Association Book Awards 2009 - First Prize Winner, Primary Care Category Evidence-Based Diagnosis in Primary Care provides guidance on diagnosis in general practice, from the patient’s first presentation with a symptom to the final establishment of a diagnosis or referral for further investigation. The book is divided into two parts: • Symptoms; which details the steps necessary to reach a provisional diagnosis when a patient presents; and • Disorders; in which the more detailed assessment of that initial diagnosis is described. This is the first book to be written about diagnosis in primary care that attempts to base its guidance on the research evidence. Enough information is provided on each symptom, or condition, to decide on the pre-test probability of each possible disorder, and how the symptoms, signs and investigations alter those probabilities to allow a conclusion to be reached about the most likely diagnosis. Evidence-Based Diagnosis in Primary Care also explains the principles of evidence-based diagnosis – with special emphasis on the issues raised by attempting an evidence-based approach in primary care – and clearly demonstrates the power, and the difficulties, of an evidence-based approach. Many chapters also feature ‘red flags’ – elements of the history or examination that should alert the practitioner to the possibility of serious disease, which is vital for general practice.