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600 MCQs in Anaesthesia Clinical Practice 2nd

The document reviews the second edition of the book '600 MCQs in Anaesthesia: Clinical Practice' which provides multiple choice questions to help candidates prepare for anesthesia examinations. The new edition contains modified and new questions and is structured into shorter tests to better hold trainees' attention. While MCQs have limitations, this book is necessary for training for exams of this type and allows self-assessment.

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600 MCQs in Anaesthesia Clinical Practice 2nd

The document reviews the second edition of the book '600 MCQs in Anaesthesia: Clinical Practice' which provides multiple choice questions to help candidates prepare for anesthesia examinations. The new edition contains modified and new questions and is structured into shorter tests to better hold trainees' attention. While MCQs have limitations, this book is necessary for training for exams of this type and allows self-assessment.

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600 MCQs in Anaesthesia: Clinical Practice.

2nd
Ed.
SCHERPEREEL P.

European Journal of AnaesthesiologyEuropean Journal of Anaesthesiology.


13:p 419-420, July 1996.

Author Information

France

600 MCQs in Anaesthesia: Clinical Practice. 2nd Ed. N. W. GOODMAN,


C. JOHNSON. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1996. Price £12.50, pp.
285.

The new edition of this book will help candidates to prepare for the
Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) and Part I of the
European Diploma in Anaesthesiology (EDA) of the European Academy of
Anaesthesiology. This book, which provides examination preparation with
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) on Clinical practice, completes the series
of books on basic sciences applied to anaesthesia. To be able to reply in the
time allotted to the MCQ questions, trainees need technical training.

The modifications to the new editions are important and welcome. Most of
the questions have been modified and about one fifth of them are entirely
new. As in the case of the EDA Examination Committee each year, each
question has been reviewed. The wording is simplified to make the questions
clearer and many branches are altered to adapt the content to changes in
knowledge, the introduction of new drugs and recent techniques. The
structure of the second edition is much more adapted to hold the trainee's
attention during the self-assessment. Ten papers of 60 mixed questions to be
answered in 1 3/4 h have been replaced by 20 papers of 30 mixed questions
in 45 min. Many questions have a shortened stem and branches, which makes
the questions clearer and easier to understand, but not always to answer. The
main drawbacks of an MCQ cannot be avoided. For example, in a question
(1.4) concerning inherited disorders likely to cause problems during
anaesthesia one branch may be irrelevant (such as Down's syndrome),
another one is false (acromegaly). It is not an inherited disease even if it
causes problems during anaesthesia.

Such a problem means that the preparation for an examination based upon
MCQs requires not only an improvement in knowledge but also an ability to
detect the subtleties of the question. Such a book is absolutely necessary for
training in this kind of examination and provides the possibility for a self-
assessment.

Comments about the answers are limited to some branches, true or false; and
sometimes the explanation should be discussed further. The absence of
quoted references is a choice of the authors but trainees often wish to know
which book is considered to be essential reading. Some standard texts reflect
only an individual opinion and a consensus is sometimes difficult to find.

A lot of practical information concerning the scoring system is also


available.

This book should be warmly recommended. It will be very useful for the
trainees preparing for the FRCA and the EDA but also familiarizes the
teachers with this type of examination.

P. SCHERPEREEL

France

© 1996 European Academy of Anaesthesiology

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