Product Description

More and more medical schools in the UK are changing the format of undergraduate examinations and adopting the popular style of single best answers (SBAs)/best of fives (BOFs) and extended matching questions (EMQs). This volume presents 1000 clinically relevant SBAs, BOFs and EMQs in all areas of the current curriculum: medicine, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54032 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

Customer Reviews

Full of mistakes
I've been using this book to revise for my final MBBS. It has lots of questions in single best answer (or best of fives) and extended matching formats which given that so few books have SBA type questions, should make it a winner but it's riddled with badly written and sometimes just plain wrong questions. Some of these are just due to badly worded questions but others are either using out of date evidence or go completely against whats written in other books. One example anti dsDNA is stated as being a more sensitive test for SLE than ANA, it's not it's more specific. More worryingly the explanation they give quotes figures which are just plain wrong suggesting this is more than just a simple misprint.
The book is good in that the standard is set at a high level, more than most question books for final MBBS, and it has 1000 questions but it is very disconcerting when you get questions wrong and you're not sure whether to trust the answers given.
If you buy this book be careful to check your mistakes against another book to make sure they really are your mistakes, or alternatively wait for the next edition.

Useful for MCQ exams
Being a 3rd year medical student at Manchester, I've found this book extremely useful for the SBA/MCQ questions that come up in the 'Progress Test' - some of the questions on the exam have been identical to one's in the book! However, explanations are rarely given as to why a particular option is the correct one - this makes it less useful for last-minute cramming, but if you have the time to go throuogh each question with oxford clinical handbook/kumar/davidson etc. whilst answering them it can be a really efective way of revising

give it a miss
Im using this for finals. im all for realism with the whole slightly ambiguous question thing, but these guys are really good at it. and occassionally the answers are silly/wrong. there are better books out there that do the same thing.