Capewell David - Medicine: 150 EMQs for finals

Get ahead!

Medicine

150 EMQs for Finals

Second edition

Get ahead!

Medicine

150 EMQs for Finals

Second edition

Anthony B. Starr MBChB

Foundation Doctor

Cumberland Infirmary

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

Carlisle, UK

Hiruni Jayasena MBBS, MRCP, MD

Lecturer in Clinical Medicine

General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University

Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

David Capewell MBCHB

GP

Whitehall Surgery

Wortley Beck Health Centre

Leeds, UK

Series Editor

Saran Shantikumar MRCS PhD

Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health

University of Warwick

Coventry, UK

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Names: Capewell, David, 1982- , author. | Starr, Anthony B., author. | Jayasena, Hiruni, author. | Shantikumar, Saran, author.

Title: Medicine : 150 EMQs for finals / Anthony B. Starr, Hiruni Jayasena, David Capewell, Saran Shantikumar.

Other titles: Get ahead! Medicine | Get ahead! (CRC Press)

Description: Second edition. | Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2016. | Series: Get ahead! | David Capewells name appears first in the previous edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048589| ISBN 9781498739078 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781498739085 (e-book)

Subjects: | MESH: Clinical Medicine | Examination Questions

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Contents

Welcome to Get ahead! Medicine. This book contains 150 extended matching question (EMQ) themes, each with five stems, covering clinical medicine. The EMQs are arranged as 10 practice papers, each containing 15 themes. Allow yourself 7590 minutes for each paper. In your finals, if they are like ours, you will only have around 1 minute per question. You can either work through the practice papers systematically or dip in and out of the book using the EMQ contents as a guide to where questions on specific topics can be found. We have tried to include all the main conditions about which you can be expected to know, as well as some more detailed knowledge suitable for candidates aiming at the higher deciles. As in the real exam, these papers have no preset pass mark. Whether you pass or fail depends on the distribution of scores across the whole year group, but over 60% should be sufficient.

We hope that this book fulfils its aim in being a useful, informative revision aid. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let us know (RevisionForMedicalFinals@gmail.com).

We offer our thanks to Stephen Clausard and Alice Oven of CRC Press for their assistance and enthusiasm in producing the second edition of this title.

Anthony B. Starr
Hiruni Jayasena
David Capewell
Saran Shantikumar

GET AHEAD!

Extended matching questions (EMQs) are becoming more popular as a method of assessment in summative medical school examinations. EMQs have the advantage of testing candidates knowledge of clinical scenarios rather than their ability at detailed factual recall. However, they do not always parallel real-life situations and are no comparison to clinical decision making, although examiners are trying to minimize the disparity by providing greater clinical detail for each case/question. In any case, the EMQ is here to stay.

The Get ahead! series is aimed primarily at undergraduate finalists. Much like the real exam, we have endeavoured to include commonly asked questions as well as a generous proportion of harder stems appropriate for the more ambitious student aiming for the higher deciles. The Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance (MSCAA) is a collaboration of medical schools in the UK that maintains a shared bank of EMQs and other question formats to be used in summative examinations. The questions in the