Unlike some other texts, it is perfectly feasible to read this from cover to cover without detracting from your time spent in front of patients. This book is ideal for those looking for a book that balances a reasonably comprehensive curriculum with brevity. The style is very much that of a quick reference guide, heavily bulleted and with concise prose. Buying all three volumes makes this the most expensive PACES textbook availableĬases for PACES Stephen Hoole, Andrew Fry, Rachel Daviesģ6 reviews Stephen Hoole’s book has recently received a complete overhaul in 2015 and is now presented with colour. Thorough textual content for candidates needing a comprehensive reference guide.Insights into the thoughts, emotions and experiences of other candidates.Thorough research of cases encountered by other candidates and useful structure focusing on the most common stations first.This has had an effect on price, making the three book option the most expensive out of our reviews. The iterative changes and addition of new station five content has added further content to this tome – and extended the book into three volumes now (previously two books were available in earlier editions). A further strength is a huge bank of quotes from other candidates’ experiences of the exam that gives readers a flavour of what to expect on the day. This is a valuable way of revising for the exam if you want to target your work towards those cases which occur with high frequency. The text is then ordered first by station on the PACES carousel – but after that in order of the frequency with which clinical cases tend to come up in the exam. The major strength of this textbook is a longstanding and thorough project to find what cases other candidates encountered in their exams. Some reviewers found the index relatively weak compared to other booksĪn Aid to the MRCP PACES: Volumes 1, 2 and 3: Stations 1-5 Robert Ryder et alģ3 reviews Robert Ryder has one of the oldest and most established texts for the MRCP PACES on the market.Also one of the MRCP PACES books with strong information on clinical examination skills.Contains detailed information about the examination format.Useful as a quick reference in busy clinical settings.If mnemonics, acronyms and checklists suit your style this book is ideal.One reviewer commented that they frequently had to sift through the book to find the pages they wanted. Detracting from these benefits is a relatively weak index. Adding to this, a variety of reviewers commented that the writing style appeared highly readable – an important skill in medical writing. Jayasekera describes precise timings and how to adhere to these, allowing you to appear slick and accomplished in the artificial OSCE environment.
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