CSA Cases Workbook for the MRCGP

Winner of the BMA Young Authors Award, Highly Commended in the Primary Health Care category, September 2015! This is a uniqueresource for trainee GPs written by three GPs who recently passed the CSAhaving put together these cases as part of their preparation for the exam. Designed to be usedby GP revision groups, the ring-bound pack provides 64 cases structured aroundthe RCGP curriculum statement areas. The book is designed to allow each memberof the revision group to act as ‘doctor’, ‘patient’ or ‘observer’ and to takeout just the pages they need ahead of the next revision session – this makesthe practice consultations as exam-like as possible. Each case features: informationfor the doctor – thispage provides the doctor with a brief summary of their patient informationfor the patient – thispage provides all the background information (including ICE, informationdivulged freely and information only divulged if specifically asked about) toallow the person in your group to ‘act’ as the patient; on the back of thispage are any results and examination findings that you can provide to thedoctor if they ask for it appropriately markingscheme for the observer – this page provides the observer in your group with asimple checklist of positive and negative descriptors in each of the threedomains (data gathering, clinical management and interpersonal) To help further withrevision, each curriculum area is split up into: possiblecases – liststhe cases most likely to come up in the CSA (including emergency and ‘special’cases, where there may be an ethical dilemma, an angry patient or scenariowhich focuses more on consultation skills than clinical content) revisionnotes – theseprovide the key NICE and SIGN guidelines, along with other helpful referencesand websites, that the whole group can read ahead of a revision session on thatcurriculum area materialfor the patient –a list of resources that you could usefully guide the patient towards in theconsultation practiceexplanations –topics, tests and procedures that you should be able to describe to the patientin a couple of minutes practiceexaminations –procedures you should be able to undertake confidently Your revision group needs just a single copyof CSA Cases Workbook rather than multiple copies of any other book, andno photocopying needed either!