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Revision Notes for the Respiratory Medicine Specialty Certificate Examination
Author(s): Caroline Patterson (Author), Meg Coleman
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: November 17, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 136 pages
- ISBN-10: 019969348X
- ISBN-13: 9780199693481
Book Description
Comprising of best of five test multiple choice questions and revision notes to facilitate targeted study, 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 exam itself.The second half of the book comprises of a series of tutorials covering key areas and difficult concepts assessed in the examination including respiratory infection, respiratory malignancy, industrial lung disease, sleep disorders, standard respiratory tests and medical statistics. The combined approach allows trainees to become acquainted with the “best of five” format and facilitate recognition of areas of weakness and targeted study.
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About the Author
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.
