A revision book intended primarily for candidates sitting their MRCP
Part 1 examination and which covers all the essential basic sciences.
It focuses on the recurring themes which come up in the questions. The
book also includes a chapter on clinical pharmacology (which alone
accounts for up to 30% of the questions), looking at aspects of
drug-induced disease and drug interactions. Finally there is a chapter
on statistics and epidemiology which is rarely covered in other texts,
but is often included in the exam.
Despite the changes to the
teaching of the undergraduate in medicine and the integration of the
basic sciences with clinical education, the junior doctor, faced with
postgraduate examinations, is always going to be poorly prepared for
those increasingly important subjects. This book presents the essential
information in the form of lists, tables, diagrams and flow charts.
