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    Kate Laver's Primary FRCA Guide: My Revision (For Exam in June)

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    Kate Laver outlined her revision plan for the Primary FRCA exam, which she took in June for Part 1 and January for Part 2. For Part 1, she focused on reading key textbooks cover to cover in the months leading up to the exam. She also practiced MCQs and SBAs using an online question bank. For Part 2, her revision included thoroughly reading physiology textbooks and drawing diagrams. She created tables to review pharmacology. She attended courses for practice OSCEs and vivas. In the final month, she focused on specific topic areas through reading, drawing, and self-testing.

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    Kate Laver outlined her revision plan for the Primary FRCA exam, which she took in June for Part 1 and January for Part 2. For Part 1, she focused on reading key textbooks cover to cover in the months leading up to the exam. She also practiced MCQs and SBAs using an online question bank. For Part 2, her revision included thoroughly reading physiology textbooks and drawing diagrams. She created tables to review pharmacology. She attended courses for practice OSCEs and vivas. In the final month, she focused on specific topic areas through reading, drawing, and self-testing.

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    Kate Laver outlined her revision plan for the Primary FRCA exam, which she took in June for Part 1 and January for Part 2. For Part 1, she focused on reading key textbooks cover to cover in the months leading up to the exam. She also practiced MCQs and SBAs using an online question bank. For Part 2, her revision included thoroughly reading physiology textbooks and drawing diagrams. She created tables to review pharmacology. She attended courses for practice OSCEs and vivas. In the final month, she focused on specific topic areas through reading, drawing, and self-testing.

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    Kate Laver's Primary FRCA Guide: My Revision (For Exam in June)

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    Kate Laver's Primary FRCA Guide

    Part 1: MCQ/SBA
    My revision (for exam in June)
    February
    • Read West in theatre during lists (probably read it 3 times)
    • Read Al-Shaikh in evenings and did self-test questions at end of chapter
    several times
    March
    • Skim-read Peck and Hill once
    • Read about major drugs e.g. adrenaline, noradrenaline etc in slightly
    closer detail for main points e.g. which receptors etc
    April
    • Read the physiology section of Fundamentals (read each chapter e.g.
    CVS physiol, renal physiol) a few times and then moved on to next
    • Read Lote’s book in conjunction with the renal physiol chapter in
    Fundamentals
    • Signed up to PasTest online for MCQs and SBAs (3 month subscription,
    about £60, very very useful I thought)
    May
    • Attended Coventry MCQ course (very good, and harder than the exam I
    think)
    • Started using PasTest website
    • Did the MCQs in equipment and West books in theatre
    June
    • PasTest website every evening
    • SBA book questions from Coventry course in May
    • Looked up any answers I got wrong in more detail in textbooks and re-
    read that section
    • Probably didn’t do much reading in this month as was all MCQ/ SBA
    practice
    • Exam
    Books
    Respiratory physiology – West
    Essentials of anaesthetic equipment – Al-Shaikh
    Fundamentals of anaesthesia – Smith and Pinnock
    Pharmacology for anaesthesia and intensive care – Peck and Hill
    Basic physics and measurement – Davis and Kenny
    Principles of renal physiology – Lote
    A-Z – Yentis
    MCQ/SBA practice
    PasTest MCQs/ SBAs online (website)
    SBAs in anaesthesia – Mendonca (book)
    Courses and teaching:
    Coventry Primary MCQ course (2 days)
    Primary FRCA weekly teaching at QE

    Part 2: OSCE/Viva
    My revision (for exam in Jan):
    November
    • Started with physics, equipment and statistics
    • Read Davis and Kenny cover to cover (some people hate this book but I
    think once you get into it it is very (probably too) detailed and offers good
    pictures and explanations, but is very dry.) Interspersed with using frca
    and howequipmentworks websites for any explanations I didn’t
    understand
    • Kept going through the book and would write brief explanations of how
    things work, or say it out loud in my head
    • Practiced drawing diagrams of anything that came up in the physics
    book
    • Explained things like A-lines etc to consultants in theatre
    • Did physics soe questions on frca website
    • Used Dr Podcast book to practice answering questions out loud (the
    stats bit is especially useful)
    • Also used stats section in Fundamentals and practiced writing out the
    mini equations for sensitivity, specificity etc
    • Drew brainstorms for the different types of statistical tests and stuck
    these up around my house
    December
    • Physiology
    • Re-read Fundamentals’ physiology sections several times. Practiced
    drawing and labelling any diagrams or graphs that came up in each
    section until I could think of one off the top of my head, draw it and
    explain it
    • Picked out specific parts of the neuro and pain chapters as they were far
    too detailed. E.g. just learnt the tracts for pain and the nociceptors and
    fibres (main stuff only as time was short)
    • Did frca soe questions on physiology
    • Attended Coventry viva/osce course (quite useful, mainly for the osce
    practice as I hadn’t done half the revision for the viva’s yet so it was a bit
    pointless doing those)
    • Used Dr Podcast book to practice answering questions out loud
    January
    • Pharmacology
    • Drew lots of tables comparing different drugs from the Peck and Hill
    book, e.g. one side of A4 for B-blockers, one side for diuretics, one for
    sympathomimetics etc – practiced covering the columns up and
    remembering what was in each box
    • Focussed mainly on commonly used drugs and the main ones in each
    group. The drugs where there was only a sentence or so written about
    them, I ignored.
    • In theatre I picked out drugs and gave a short speech about them to
    myself
    • Used Dr Podcast book to practice answering questions out loud
    • In-hospital viva practice mornings
    • 1 week leave before exam for last minute revision (as it is very hard to
    do any revision in the day at work)
    • Exam
    Books
    Respiratory physiology – West
    Essentials of anaesthetic equipment – Al-Shaikh
    Fundamentals of anaesthesia – Smith and Pinnock
    Pharmacology for anaesthesia and intensive care – Peck and Hill
    Basic physics and measurement – Davis and Kenny
    Dr Podcast scripts for the Primary FRCA – Leslie, Johnson and Goodwin
    (my favourite book)
    The Primary FRCA SOE study guides 1 + 2 (Masterpass series) –
    Wijayasiri, McCombe and Patel (although I bought these, fully intending to
    read them, I never got round to opening them)
    I didn’t find A-Z very helpful as it lacked lengthy explanations that the
    other textbooks seemed to contain, but I know other people found it very
    useful as a quick reference
    Courses and teaching
    Coventry Primary OSCE/VIVA course (2 days) (December)
    In-hospital viva practice 4 mornings a week for half an hour, 2 weeks
    before exam
    Consultant viva practice during lists
    Russell’s Hall OSCE/VIVA day (January)
    Half-day OSCE practice in-hospital
    Websites and audio
    Anaesthesia UK
    YouTube (for neuro examinations e.g. cranial nerves)
    www.howequipmentworks.com
    Dr Podcast

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