Hi guys, so i successfully completed amc part 1 and am now considering preparing for the clinical exam. I dont know if this will work for you, but this is how i studied for and passed the MCQ exam.
I read the whole of john murtagh and made my own set of summarized notes from that text book.
I read over my JM notes that i had made as well as the notes from the online lectures
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then i did all the questions from the mcq handbook, go over them properly,understand the answers because you wont get exactly the same questions in your exam but the same topics will come out. concentrate on psych.
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Then i did the mock exam on the amc website but that was silly because it was exactly the same questions from the amc handbook, and only 50 questions. But u can use it to check if your recalled the answers and understood the content
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i bought a 3 month subscription from AMCQBANK and did all 1800 or so mcqs
-Then i went back and re did the mcqs in the amc handbook
Topics to concentrate on based on common things in all the mcqs i did:
eating disorders
snake bite
all emergency medicine including recognising ecgs
hyperkalemia
sodium disorders
all psych esp schizophrenia and its prevalence and incidence, autism, adhd
all side effects of medication egs the antipsychotics, digoxin, warfarin
domestic abuse and elderly abuse
screening guidelines for all the cancers
prostate and lung ca management
vaccination schedule
pregnant mums and infections egs varicella, rubella, syphillis during different trimesters
dermatology, unfortunately one of the hardest things to study but go over melanoma and sq cell ca, impetigo
reading mamogram
reading ct scan head esp, but they also ask to identify problem on abdominal ct
stemi and its management, gout management, peptic ulcer management
Post bypass now patient needs surgery for another problem - what to do if on clopidogrel, or warfarin or aspirin
Its alot of work and its extensive but this is how i studied for it.This worked for me, but i also had a lot of clinical knowledge and experience having graduated 12 years ago. i hope it works for you. So goodluck to you. It took me 5 months of daily studying and the last 6 weeks of about 10 hrs of studying a day.