1000 EMQs for PLAB Based on Current Exams, Third Edition [Paperback]

The PLAB examination assesses your ability to work safely in your first appointment as a Senior House Officer in an NHS hospital. Are you ready? Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, the Third Edition of this best-selling guide to passing the PLAB is based on actual questions from previous examinations and enhanced by detailed, explanatory answers from the author's extensive clinical experience. Considering a wide variety of topics, the book suggests techniques to answer the extended matching questions by providing focused solutions and explanations. It also highlights clues to the correct response within the question itself. It is highly recommended for PLAB candidates, final year medical students and candidates for the MRCGP. In this book by Dr Sherif Helmy, a step-by-step approach to the test is presented in a lucid, easy-to-read format with comprehensive coverage of the subject. From the foreword by Sir Magdi YacoubForeword to the Third Edition. Preface to the Third Edition. About the author. Acknowledgements. Themes. Breathlessness. Liver disease. Causes of haematemesis. Neurological disorders. Mass in the right iliac fossa. Weight loss. Causes of pneumonia. Anaemia. Nail lesions. Ovarian tumours. Causes of acute pancreatitis. Cardiac lesions. Skin rash. Rectal bleeding in children. Arthritis. Genetics. Clinical features of cardiac arrhythmias. Lump in the groin. Causes of clubbing. Skin lesions. Operations in gynaecology and their indications. Urinary problems in women. Chest radiography findings in congenital heart diseases. Paediatric neurological disorders. Causes of syncope. Autoantibodies. Visual field defects. Renal calculi. Malnutrition and malabsorption. Adverse effects of medications. Pelvic pain. Staging of malignant tumours. Pulmonary diseases in children. Investigating pulmonary diseases in children. Adverse effects of medications. Liver diseases. Management of endometriosis. Investigating amenorrhoea. Tumour markers. Thyrotoxicosis. Chest rl3,