Paperback

Published: 07/02/2008

Extent: 272 pages

Illustrations: 14 line drawings (cartoons)

 

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Summary:
The Clinical Skills Assessment has been developed as “an assessment of a doctor’s ability to integrate and apply clinical, professional, communication and practical skills appropriate for general practice”. Candidates will have to see 13 ‘patients’ during the exam, presenting with problems that will test the doctor’s skills in diagnosis, problem solving, communication and ethics, as well as practical clinical skills and treatment planning.

Get Through New MRCGP: Clinical Skills Assessment is a unique book designed to help the candidate with their preparation for this new and daunting examination.

The book opens with a chapter on how to approach the exam, giving valuable advice on how trainees can focus their time in day-to-day GP surgeries, and through reflection, video review and personal study, can develop the skills required to pass the CSA.

This is followed by two comprehensive mock examinations, each covering a spread of topics and skills as outlined in the new RCGP GP curriculum. The reader is provided with the full candidate and patient notes for each station, followed by a comprehensive discussion of the areas that the station is testing, and the points that should be covered by the candidate in order to get the best marks. Each station is supplemented by a summary of the knowledge base required for the scenario, including the latest national guidelines, and a list of take-home messages and further reading.

• Get Through New MRCGP: Clinical Skills Assessment is a bestselling, unique book designed to help candidates successfully pass this daunting examination

• Includes mock examinations, covering a spread of topics and skills as outlined in the new RCGP curriculum, comprehensive discussion of the areas that the station is testing, and the points that should be covered in order to achieve the best marks

• Contains a useful summary of the latest national guidelines, a list of take-home messages and further reading

• The book can be used for individual study or revision, or equally useful as a basis for group study

• Offers valuable advice on how to approach the exam, focus time in day-to-day GP surgeries and how to develop the skills required to pass the CSA

Table of Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preparing for the Clinical Skills Assessment:
The ‘why’, ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’
Examination 1
Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Station 5
Station 6
Station 7
Station 8
Station 9
Station 10
Station 11
Station 12
Station 13
Examination 2
Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Station 5
Station 6
Station 7
Station 8
Station 9
Station 10
Station 11
Station 12
Station 13
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index

About the Author(s):
Bruno Rushforth MA(Cantab) MBChB MA
GP Specialty Registrar, West Riding GP Specialty Training Programme, Yorkshire Deanery

Val Wass BSc FRCGP FRCP MHPE PhD
Professor of Community Based Medical Education, Manchester Medical School, University of Manchester

Readership:
Trainees undertaking the MRCGP examination and trainees in general practice

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