Product Description

This new book is a highly structured case-based text to help candidates pass the MRCP PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) examination. Its contents correspond to the five clinical stations of the exam and the systems that each contains. Each system is covered in a structured way, providing an examination scheme followed by a series of detailed case-based clinical scenarios. The book also covers the history-taking skills and communication skills and ethics stations which are new to this exam.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340093 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 628 pages

Review
"This text is certainly of great value to anyone who is preparing for MRCP part 2, and also for clinical undergraduates. The easygoing narrative and use of bullet points and figures allows its wealth of information to be effortlessly extracted." "James S Dawson, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham," Hospital Medicine, August 2003

Customer Reviews

A MUST for your MRCP preparation
Hall's PACES for the MRCP is excellent. It is easy to follow, carefully laid out and covers all conditions likely to appear in each station of the exam.

The author not only explains examination techniques and clinical signs, but also goes that step further to ensure the reader really understands each topic, using clinical examples, question and answer/discussion sections as well as detailed illustrations.

Where this text also outshines the others is with the inclusion of chapters covering the History Taking and Communication/Ethics stations of the exam. The scenarios are "spot on" and give the reader plenty of examples to work through. The Neurology section is brilliant.

Overall: An excellent and up-to-date text, this is the new MRCP "Bible" - don't sit your exam without it.

A cosy read, but not as hardcore as baliga or Ryder
This book has a very pleasing feel about it. A comprehensive range of chapters, excellent paper quality and for the most part excellent information for the part 2 and PACES.
This book is born of two fathers; Ryder and Baliga. Its uniqueness is that it seemlessly blends case presentation with background knowledge. In fact many of the cases are used as a sounding board for less relevant but important information on cytokines for example.
At times it the link between the case and the blurb seems tenuous but for the most part it helps revise medicine and flesh out those answers.
The author should definitely be congratulated on producing an excellent Paces revision book; and this is only the first edition!

Overall I think it doesn't obviate the need for the more old-fashioned Ryder, and Baliga both exellent texts. For people wanting a slightly softer approach then this book is perfect.

great neuro section
Really good book. The clinical stations are well covered - in particular this book is worth buying just for the neuro section alone which is really easy to read and understand and gives you a great framework for approaching clinical cases (this is also what countless colleagues of mine have cited as the book's main selling point!)

The ethical and history taking stations are not so well covered and i would recommend ryder's gold book for these if you feel the need to revise for these (this is why only 4 stars)

Certainly enough detail to pass easily - add in Ryder for those rarer cases which do occasionally come up and you will be sorted.