Get Through MRCPsych Part 1: Preparation for OSCEs - Softcover

Murthy, Sree Prathap Mohana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185315590X ISBN 13: 9781853155901

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

This is an essential revision tool for all candidates preparing for the MRCPsych Part 1 examination. The OSCE (observed structured clinical examination) was introduced by the MRCPsych examiners in Spring 2003 to test clinical and communication skills. This book provides a broad variety of OSCE questions and answers based on syllabus topics and has been prepared using past papers. It offers helpful hints and tips on what to expect and how to negotiate the examination successfully.

Topics featured include:
·extracting patient history
·eliciting symptoms, e.g. hallucinatory, delusions, anxiety, depression, etc.
·explaining mental illness to the patient, their relatives and carers
·starting a patient on a new drug, e.g. atypical antipsychotics, antidementia, depot medication
·physical examinations, e.g. cardiovascular and respiratory, mental state, cranial nerves, opiate withdrawal, eating disorder, etc .
·risk assessment, e.g. suicide, puerperal disorder
·ECT electrode placement
·rapid tranquilization

This book will not only prepare you for the examination but will also help you face clinical situations confidently and effectively. The author, Sree Prathap Mohana Murthy, recently passed the MRCPsych Part 1 and is currently based at the North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Colchester, UK.

About this title

Synopsis

The OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) is a test of clinical and communication skills, introduced in 2003. This book contains stations encountered by candidates in previous MRCPsych part 1 OSCE exams, together with important topics that are likely to appear in future examinations. This book gives candidates an orientation of what exactly the OSCE is about - with its emphasis on clinical and communication skills, and provides constructive techniques on how to perform. The author of this book passed the MRCPsych in 2003. As no OSCE textbooks where available at the time, he used the information he gathered from a wide range of sources to put together this title.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185315590X
• ISBN 13: 9781853155901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220