MRCS: Part B OSCEs: Essential Revision Notes

✍ Scribed by C. Parchment-Smith

• Publisher: Pastest
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 724
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title page
Copyright page
Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Permissions
1. Introduction
A. The Intercollegiate MRCS Examination
B. Structure of the OSCE
C. Candidate instructions for the OSCE station
D. How to prepare for the OSCE
E. Survey of past candidates
F. Focus of this book
SECTION 1: CLINICAL SKILLS IN HISTORY TAKING AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
2. Overview of Clinical Skills Stations
A. Structure of this content area
B. History taking – a ‘general formula’
C. History to assess fitness for surgery
D. How to present a history
E. Top tips in history taking and clinical examination
3. Head and Neck
A. The Histories
B. The Examinations
C. The OSCE Cases
D. Survey results
4. Trunk and Thorax
A. The Histories
B. The Examinations
C. The OSCE Cases
D. Survey results
5. Limbs
A. The Histories
B. The Examinations
C. The OSCE Cases
D. Survey results
6. Neurosciences
A. The Histories
B. The Examinations
C. The OSCE Cases
D. Survey results
SECTION 2: COMMUNICATION SKILLS
7. Communication Skills
SECTION 3: SURGICAL SKILLS AND PATIENT SAFETY
8. Surgical Skills
9. Patient Safety
SECTION 4: SURGICAL SCIENCE, CRITICAL CARE, ANATOMY AND PATHOLOGY
10. Applied surgical science and critical care
11. Anatomy and surgical pathology
12. Mock OSCE examinations
Abbreviations List
Bibliography
Index
Summary cards