 | Clinical Cases and OSCEs in Surgery (MRCS Study Guides) by Manoj Ramachandran
Buy new: £20.79 / Used from: £12.00 Superb for the clinical - in fact with this and Parchment-Smith's book you won't need anything else.
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 | VIVA Practice for Intercollegiate MRCS: Pt.3 by Christopher L. H. Chan
Buy new: £20.76 / Used from: £10.49 Very good coverage of common questions - some small mistakes though.
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 | Intercollegiate MRCS: An Aid to the VIVA Examination by Manoj Ramachandran
Buy new: £26.49 / Used from: £8.49 Very good coverage of common questions - some small mistakes though.
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 | Applied Surgical Physiology Vivas by Mazyar Kanani
Buy new: £24.13 / Used from: £18.00 THE physiology questions book - know this and you should be okay for physiology.
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 | General Pathology Vivas by David Lowe
Buy used from: £8.98 This is THE pathology book for vivas - I only used this book and it earn't me a four.
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 | Vivas and Communication Skills in Surgery (MRCS Study Guides) by Kathryn McCarthy MRCS(Eng) MRCS(Ed)
Buy new: £28.79 / Used from: £14.00 I used this for the vivas but not the communication skills part. It is actually quite good but you can afford not to have it.
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 | MRCS: Anatomy Vivas (Get Through Series) by Simon Overstall
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £14.75 Great book - small but hits the nail on the head - most of my anatomy questions were covered in this.
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 | Key Questions in Surgical Critical Care by Robert U. Ashford
Buy new: £24.50 / Used from: £36.47 Great coverage of the critical care part of the viva.
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 | Principles of Operative Surgery: Viva Practice for the MRCS (Masterpass) by S. Asbury
Buy new: £19.76 / Used from: £16.00 All you need to know for this part of the viva is in this compact book!
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 | Questions for the Mrcs Viva (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Jeff Garner
Buy new: £20.19 / Used from: £13.99 I loved this book - essential!
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 | Preparation and Revision for the MRCS: Or how to pass the exam (MRCS Study Guides) by William E. G. Thomas
Buy new: £30.24 / Used from: £7.23 Really easy to read. Gives you some idea of how the examiners judge you. Useful addition (and great starting point) but not essential!
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 | Clinically Oriented Anatomy by Keith L. Moore
Buy used from: £10.99 A med school classic but the diagrams are great for MRCS.
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 | Human Anatomy: Color Atlas and Text by John Gosling MB ChB MD FRCS
Buy used from: £14.99 A superb atlas - great for the prosections in the exam - use in conjunction with the Acland DVD atlas and you will go far!!
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 | Fundamentals of Surgical Practice
Buy used from: £4.99 Good coverage as a text book. Useful.
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 | Clinical Anatomy by Harold Ellis
Buy used from: £21.00 The old classic - very good. Everyone raves about it but I did not find it as amazing as I thought I would.
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 | Anatomy at a Glance by Omar Faiz
Buy used from: £10.97 Perhaps a suprise on a post-grad list but I still find this book useful and is great for flicking through to test your knowledge.
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 | Surgery at a Glance by Pierce A. Grace
Buy used from: £4.50 Again a bit pre-grad but I found really good for structuring knowledge around and also for a good aide memoire for structuring answers - it's all in the very simple pictures!!
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 | Essential Lists for Intercollegiate MRCS by Michael Murphy
Buy new: £18.49 / Used from: £9.00 Didn't use this at all but I've heard it is useful.
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