Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA PDF – A Revision Guide
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Preface
Since man has existed there has been a basic, innate human drive to help the sick and, whenever possible, to return them to health. Superimposed on this constancy of intent has been a steady and progressive improvement in the ways of managing illness. Anaesthesia and its related specialties of intensive care medicine and pain management have been instrumental in allowing these developments to occur. In so doing they too have had to meet and overcome new problems. These range from those posed by rapid recovery case anaesthesia via safer childbirth to the management of increasingly complex patients with reduced physiological reserves.
Through its Charter, the Royal College of Anaesthetists has a public responsibility to ensure that this clinical progress is not only maintained, but also that the knowledge to achieve it is both taught and examined. It is to the credit of the specialty that for many years it has led the way in preparing trainees and fellows for the task ahead. Over time, the College examinations have undergone huge changes: the ones I sat in the late 1970s were very different from those of today. Throughout, however, the college has maintained a constant theme of making the examinations fit for purpose in the context of current and future practice. Whilst frustrating the many who have had to cope with this change, the effect has been of enormous public benefit.
This book has been produced in response to the recent variation of educational strategy in the Final Examination: the introduction of the scenario-based single best answer question. For me its publication is welcome on two grounds. Firstly, there is no doubt it will help those preparing for the examination: the coverage goes across the whole syllabus, the clinical settings are relevant and it encourages learning based in the reality of the clinical environment. Secondly, it is a book generated and completed by the energy of young anaesthetists, both trainees and consultants. With such enthusiasm in the ranks, the future of the specialty looks bright.
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practice single best answer questions for the final frca pdf
practice single best answer questions for the final frca a revision guide
