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Revision Notes for the Respiratory Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination PDF

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Revision Notes for the Respiratory Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination PDF
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The newly introduced Specialty Certificate Examinations are a compulsory component of assessment for all UK medical trainees and represent the final examination barrier before being able to apply for consultant positions. This book provides a unique examination-specific revision guide for the SCE in Respiratory Medcine.

Comprising of best of five multiple choice questions, detailed answers and separate revision notes, Revision Notes for the Respiratory Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination is the only book you need to prepare for this important examination.

Questions are based around clinical scenarios and supplemented with images of radiological investigations such as x-rays and lung function tests. Each question is structured as in the examination itself.
The revision notes cover key areas and difficult concepts assessed in the examination, referencing national and international guidelines in topics including respiratory infection, respiratory malignancy, industrial lung disease, sleep disorders, standard respiratory tests and medical statistics.

E-Book Details
Сategories: Medicine|Respiratory-Medicine
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
Table of Contents
1 Best of fi ve questions 1
2 Obstructive lung disease 23
3 Thoracic oncology and palliative care 29
4 Pulmonary infection 35
5 Tuberculosis and opportunistic mycobacterial disease 43
6 Bronchiectasis 49
7 Interstitial lung disease 55
8 Pulmonary vascular disease 61
9 Eosinophilic lung disease 67
10 Sleep disorders 69
11 Disorders of the mediastinum and pleura 73
12 Occupational and environmental lung disease 79
13 Lung transplantation 83
14 Invasive and non-invasive ventilation 87
15 Pulmonary function tests 91
16 Respiratory scoring systems and statistics 97
17 Best of fi ve answers 103
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About the Authors
Dr Caroline Patterson is a graduate of Nottingham Medical School who is undertaking specialist training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine on the North West Thames Rotation. She is a full time doctor with the Royal Air Force and as such is involved in the aeromedical evacuation of high
dependency patients from around the globe, including theatres of war. She is currently undertaking post-graduate research into the use of biomarkers and comprehensive cardiopulmonary computed tomography in acute medical admissions. She is a contributory author for the Oxford Handbook of Acute
Medicine, the Oxford University Press online MRCP educational programme and the Department of Health E-Learning for Health programme.

Dr Meg Coleman graduated from Royal Free and University College London Medical school in 2002 after completing MBBS and an intercalated BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology. After her senior house officer rotation and MRCP (2005) she spent a year working in Intensive Care in New Zealand. She returned
to the UK in 2007 to start specialist training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine on the Northwest Thames rotation. She recently returned from a year working and teaching in Malawi where she undertook research into the causes of pleural effusions in patients with Kaposi’s Sarcoma. She is
now working as an ST6 at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

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