Thrombocytopenia made easy
A 34 year old woman complains of feeling depressed for the past month. She is not complaining of any other symptoms and has no medical or drug history. On examination,…
My MRCP Part 1 Score
What is a good score on the MRCP Part 1? The MRCP people now give your score as a scaled number from 0 to 999, where 521 is the pass…
Opening a can of interesting worms
Writing medical education materials as a full time job has been incredible. It makes you cross check everything, and discover things you had never thought about. For example, I was…
Early warning, late realisation
Early warning scores are in use throughout NHS hospitals to spot patients who are deteriorating. So where did they come from, and what are their limitations? At Barts in 1997,…
The final week
I now have some idea of what sorts of things come up regularly, and also what I need constant reminders about. For example, medicine. I’m going to post stories/summaries I…
The G6PD Drugs Memory Story
*Based on a false story How you could spend your entire life in haemolysis You go to India and catch vivax/ovale malaria (antimalarials, esp primaquine which is the only one…
Focused MRCP run through – introduction
Change of plan. I’ve been working through past questions on onexamination.com and the Medical Masterclass series. It doesn’t seem like listing everything in the syllabus is the most efficient way…
Complete run through of the MRCP Part I – Day 4 of 40
This page involves going through 8 types of cancer. I’ll try my best to cover them over the weekend. Breast cancer What is the breast? The breast mostly consists of…
Complete run through of the MRCP Part I – Day 3 of 40
Page 85 isn’t in MRCP Part I, so I’ll split page 84 over two days. Today: Hypercalcemia SVC Obstruction Neutropenic Sepsis Hypercalcemia The normal corrected calcium is about 2.25-2.5 mmol/litre,…
Complete run through of the MRCP Part I – Day 2 of 40
Wow. This is a long syllabus. It’s taken me three hours to put this next section together, which leaves me with little time for pretty pictures/mnemonics. Let’s crack page 83….