Overview

Oxford Assess and Progress is a new and unique revision resource for medical students. Written and edited by clinicians and educational experts the series provides an array of popular assessment questions and extra features, including bonus online questions, to be truly fit for purpose and assessment success! Medical students will benefit from a comprehensive selection of Single Best Answer Questions and Extended Matching Questions designed to test understanding and application of core medical topics. Key professional themes such as decision making, communication and ethics are also teased out to ensure complete revision coverage. Editorials in each chapter unlock difficult subjects. Ideal companions to the best-selling Oxford Handbooks these excellent self-assessment guides can also be used entirely independently. Oxford Assess and Progress: Emergency Medicine doesn't simply reveal the correct or wrong answer. Readers are directed to further revision material via detailed feedback on why the correct answer is best, and references to the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine and resources such as journal articles. Each question is rated out of four possible levels of difficulty, from medical student to junior doctor. Carefully complied and reviewed to ensure quality, students can rely on the Oxford Assess and Progress series to prepare for their exams.

Full Product Details

Author:   Pawan Gupta
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 18.10cm
Weight:   0.242kg
ISBN:  

9780199599530

ISBN 10:   019959953
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   25 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: General approach 2: Life-threatening emergencies 3: Medicine 4: Poisoning 5: Infectious diseases 6: Environmental emergencies 7: Analgesia and anaesthesia 8: Major trauma 9: Wounds, fractures, orthopaedics 10: Surgery 11: Ophthalmology 12: Ear, nose and throat 13: Obstetrics and gynaecology 14: Psychiatry 15: Paediatric emergencies

Reviews

This book was wonderful in helping me through my acute medical attachment and was a brilliant aid in revision for final exams. The mix of SBAs and EMQs was very useful in testing my knowledge and are the same style of those used in finals. Having detailed answers and feedback really helped me consolidate the more difficult topics. With each question assigned a 'star rating' I know it will be useful in my future career when hopefully I shall be able to get more of the difficult questions right!' Caroline Rance, Student, University of Southampton, School of Medicine The new 'Oxford Assess and Progress' Emergency Medicine handbook is a superb learning resource for all junior doctors working in the Emergency Department. This innovative companion to the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides concise up to date information utilising real life scenarios, case histories and supporting clinical material. Addressing the wide spectrum of presentations to the specialty, this book immerses the reader in every day Emergency Medicine dilemmas, facilitating not only acquisition of concise up to date clinical information, but also improving critical thinking, management prioritisation and clinical decision making. With 250 single best answers, detailed question feedback and numerous up to date references, the text is an excellent learning resource for junior doctors as well as an enjoyable revision tool for more senior doctors. Difficult to put down once you get started! Patricia O'Connor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire

This book was wonderful in helping me through my acute medical attachment and was a brilliant aid in revision for final exams. The mix of SBAs and EMQs was very useful in testing my knowledge and are the same style of those used in finals. Having detailed answers and feedback really helped me consolidate the more difficult topics. With each question assigned a 'star rating' I know it will be useful in my future career when hopefully I shall be able to get more of the difficult questions right!' Caroline Rance, Student, University of Southampton, School of Medicine The new 'Oxford Assess and Progress' Emergency Medicine handbook is a superb learning resource for all junior doctors working in the Emergency Department. This innovative companion to the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides concise up to date information utilising real life scenarios, case histories and supporting clinical material. Addressing the wide spectrum of presentations to the specialty, this book immerses the reader in every day Emergency Medicine dilemmas, facilitating not only acquisition of concise up to date clinical information, but also improving critical thinking, management prioritisation and clinical decision making. With 250 single best answers, detailed question feedback and numerous up to date references, the text is an excellent learning resource for junior doctors as well as an enjoyable revision tool for more senior doctors. Difficult to put down once you get started! Patricia O'Connor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire

The new 'Oxford Assess and Progress' Emergency Medicine handbook is a superb learning resource for all junior doctors working in the Emergency Department. This innovative companion to the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides concise up to date information utilising real life scenarios, case histories and supporting clinical material. Addressing the wide spectrum of presentations to the specialty, this book immerses the reader in every day Emergency Medicine dilemmas, facilitating not only acquisition of concise up to date clinical information, but also improving critical thinking, management prioritisation and clinical decision making. With 250 single best answers, detailed question feedback and numerous up to date references, the text is an excellent learning resource for junior doctors as well as an enjoyable revision tool for more senior doctors. Difficult to put down once you get started! Patricia O'Connor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire This book was wonderful in helping me through my acute medical attachment and was a brilliant aid in revision for final exams. The mix of SBAs and EMQs was very useful in testing my knowledge and are the same style of those used in finals. Having detailed answers and feedback really helped me consolidate the more difficult topics. With each question assigned a 'star rating' I know it will be useful in my future career when hopefully I shall be able to get more of the difficult questions right!' Caroline Rance, Student, University of Southampton, School of Medicine

This book was wonderful in helping me through my acute medical attachment and was a brilliant aid in revision for final exams. The mix of SBAs and EMQs was very useful in testing my knowledge and are the same style of those used in finals. Having detailed answers and feedback really helped me consolidate the more difficult topics. With each question assigned a 'star rating' I know it will be useful in my future career when hopefully I shall be able to get more of the difficult questions right!' Caroline Rance, Student, University of Southampton, School of Medicine The new 'Oxford Assess and Progress' Emergency Medicine handbook is a superb learning resource for all junior doctors working in the Emergency Department. This innovative companion to the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides concise up to date information utilising real life scenarios, case histories and supporting clinical material. Addressing the wide spectrum of presentations to the specialty, this book immerses the reader in every day Emergency Medicine dilemmas, facilitating not only acquisition of concise up to date clinical information, but also improving critical thinking, management prioritisation and clinical decision making. With 250 single best answers, detailed question feedback and numerous up to date references, the text is an excellent learning resource for junior doctors as well as an enjoyable revision tool for more senior doctors. Difficult to put down once you get started! Patricia O'Connor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire

Author Information

Pawan Gupta is an emergency physician by training who is currently working as a Consultant and Clinical Director in the Emergency Medicine directorate in the Lister Hospital and Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, under East & North Hertfordshire University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also a clinical teacher for Cambridge University Medical School and is a supervisor for final year medical students in emergency medicine. He is an examiner as well as an item contributor in the College of Emergency Medicine. He is also involved in writing items for the Fitness to Practise assessments for the GMC, a Part 2 examiner and Part 1 panel member for the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB). Series editor: David Sales is a general practitioner by training who has been involved in medical assessment for over 20 years, having previously been convenor of the MRCGP knowledge test. He has run item writing workshops for a number of undergraduate medical schools, medical royal colleges and internationally. For the General Medical Council currently he chairs the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board Part 1 panel and is their consultant on fitness to practise knowledge testing.

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