The Pocketbook for PACES

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-957418-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 107 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Oxford Specialty Training: Revision Texts

This book provides an easily portable yet comprehensive guide to the PACES examination. It includes all of the most relevant clinical information for the PACES exam supplemented by tips supplied by the highly experienced chapter authors. The main aim of the book is to consolidate candidates' theoretical knowledge and help them apply it to the clinical examination scenario. In addition the book forms an excellent pocket reference for trainees in acute medicine,
accident and emergency medicine, anaesthetics and critical care and general practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bessant, Rupa

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction
2: Respiratory
3: Abdomen
4: History taking
5: Cardiology
6: Neurology
7: Communication skills
8: Brief clinical consultation
9: MRCPI

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Bessant qualified from the University of Manchester Medical School (later earning an MSc (Distinction) in Rheumatology at University College London Hospitals), practised at Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and worked as a Consultant at Guys & St Thomas' Hospitals. She now devotes her time to Medical Education. Her main research interests are Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Ankylosing Spondylitis. For three years she was the
National Trainee Representative for the Heberden Committee of the British Society for Rheumatology.
Dr. Bessant was involved in restructuring the UCL Hospitals PACES course and was Course Director from 2002 to 2004, and was also the Course Director for the Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust PACES course until 2010.
Dr Bessant published a paper in 2006 with Dr Gerald Coakley in the Postgraduate Medical Journal on predictors of outcome in the PACES exam.