Dear all,

I would like to add to this a 'reading list' that I used for the exam:

1) Ashcraft (4th edition), published last few months
2) Duffy, Thomas and Rickwood: Essentials of paediatric urology
3) Paediatric surgery Secrets (very information dense, BUT there are a
few errors)
4) Physiology secrets
5) APLS course manual
6) William J Larsen: Human Embryology, Sanders: Structural fetal
abnormalities - the total picture.
7) Anatomy: Grants atlas of anatomy, Clinical anatomy by Ellis. I
learnt the anatomy of the operations we do, not a whole anatomy
book...
8) Sackett: Clinical Epidemiology - a basic science for clinical
medicine (statistics reading)
9) Elliot, Hastings, Desselberger: Medical Microbiology
10) Hoffbrand: Essential Haematology (chapters on clotting, transfusion)
11) Spitz: A Colour atlas of paediatric surgical diagnosis...practice
for the spot test.

The spot test has gone, but every viva consisits of 15 minutes of
looking at slides on computers. So long live the spot test.

There are a number of papers I would regard as necessary reading, but
it was very hard to actually quote any of these in the exam.

Please feel free to add/take issue with my own list.

BW

Liam

On 11/28/05, Richard Lindley <rmlindley@...> wrote:
> The format of the "exit" exam is due to change. I was originally
> told 2006, but the general surgeons are saying 2007. I'll have more
> information on this in the New Year; until now assume that the
> structure remains the same for the next sitting.
>
> In the future, it will be in 2 parts: a written (multiple choice)
> and the clinical and vivas. The clinical will consist of
> structured "short" cases - there will be no long case. The vivas
> will remain and the the spotter will disappear.
>
> The multiple choice questions will be of two types:
>
> 1. Single best answer (120 questions): Choose the best option from
> 5
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> e.g. Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in childen:
> a. is rare (affects less than 1 in 1000 live births)
> b. is due to a lack of ganglion cells in the enteric nervous system
> c. can be treated by pyloromyotomy
> d. only occurs in male infants
> e. typically presents with bilious vomiting
>
> 2. Extended matching questions (135) - choose the best answer from
> the list to fit the given scenario
>
> Regarding groin swellings in children:
>
> A. direct inguinal hernia
> B. indirect inguinal hernia
> C. lymph node
> D. femoral artery aneurysm
> E. etc
>
> Question 1: Which of the above would be most likely in a pretwrm
> infant with a an easily reducible groin swelling?
> Question 2: Which of these is most likely in...
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> As you can see, making these up is quite difficult! We can write our
> own exam in this respect as the exam board have to make up some good
> questions and are asking for submissions. If you have the spare
> time, email me or post them on the group and I will pass them on.
> You may be lucky and get your own question...
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