Multiple-choice Questions in Accident and Emergency

Accident and emergency medicine has emerged as a specialty and as such, more emphasis is being placed on education and training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This is reflected in the importance given the subject in examinations at all levels.

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Accident and emergency medicine has emerged as a specialty in its own right. As such, more emphasis is being placed on education and training at both undergraduate and post graduate levels in the acute management of medical and surgical emergencies. This is reflected in the increasing importance given to accident and emergency medicine in examinations at all levels. This book is primarily intended for both medical students studying for their final examinations and medical, surgical and accident and emergency specialists studying for the MRCP, FRCS, or FRCS(A&E) examinations. All the multiple choice questions are in a standard format; that is a stem question with five answers, each of which may be true or false. Using the negative marking system (one mark for a correct answer, nothing if a question is left out and a mark off for a wrong answer) final year medical students achieve average marks of between 40% and 45%. Each question and answer is followed by an explanation on the opposite page. The questions are of variable difficulty. The explanations are not intended to be exhaustive, but merely to highlight some of the important aspects of accident and emergency medicine.