Wednesday 2 July 2008

Buy a library

There are certain essential materials in my opinion which are invaluable for this exam:

Download a copy of the syllabus and use this to break your revision up into topics

Order a copy of the new guide to the FRCA Final Examination. As with the Primary version, this has examples of questions from all sections of the exam. The MCQ section is particularly useful as it is taken from the actual college bank and some do appear in the exam.

Opinion is divided as to whether to use a large textbook or not e.g. Aitkenhead, Pinnock, Hutton etc. This is a personal opinion and one which can be decided by previous experience for Primary and browsing before trying. Candidates will need to purchase/borrow some specialist text-books - many can be ordered from AnaesthesiaUK here or from Amazon. Here is a list I found useful:

General
"Companion to Clinical Anaesthesia Exams (FRCA Study Guides)"Charlie Corke
"Clinical Notes for the FRCA (FRCA Study Guides)"Charles Deakin

MCQ
"Final FRCA: Multiple Choice Questions (FRCA Study Guides)"Michael D. Brunner
"QBase Anaesthesia: MCQs for the Final FRCA v. 5"Edward Hammond
"MCQs for the Final FRCA"Khaled Elfituri
"MCQ's in Anaesthesia (FRCA Study Guides)"A. Ganado
"QBase Anaesthesia: MCQs for the Anaesthesia Final FRCA v. 2 (QBase)"Mark Blunt
"FRCA: MCQs for the Final FRCA: Saunders Self Assessment Series: MCQs for the Final FRCA (FRCA Study Guides)"Karen Henderson
"Practice MCQ's for the Final FRCA (FRCA Study Guides)"Jon Hardman

SAQ
"Anaesthesia & Critical Care" Chris Dodds & Neil Soni
"Short Answer Questions and MCQs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care"Peter Murphy
"Short Answer Questions in Anaesthesia"Simon Bricker;
"Final F.R.C.A.: Short Answer Questions"J. Nickells

SOE
"The Anaesthesia Science Viva Book" Simon Bricker
"The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book"Simon J. Mills

Of course, the A to Z comes in handy too.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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