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EXAM PREDICTIONS

What will be on the exam for the august sitting 2018?

 Predicting an exam is always tricky, but not impossible.
If you can think like the examiners do, then its not that difficult, that is the main reason for writing questions.

My predictions for the last exam were quite successful and included: wrist trauma, non-accidental injury, organophosphate poisoning, hypo Na seizure , hypo K amongst others. When it comes to do the OSCE(www.OSCE.com.au), I was able to predict about half of the stations.

There are a few things that make prediction easier:
  • There are a limited set of topics that can be asked as an SAQ and they repeat
  • Knowledge of how the repetition cycle works.

When trying to predict the exam I am making a calculated guess based on the exam matrix that I have.
​Don't just study the lists I give. They are there for you to spend some extra time on.

I usually put 2 lists together: The 25 topics list and the major list, seen below.

HOW TO STUDY WITH 4 WEEKS TO GO
In the countdown leading up to the exam, this would be my preparation approach. You will have your own approach and that's fine, because you prepare in your own way. As long as you look at the list below and make sure you have reviewed these topics, it doesn't matter. Here is an approach:
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4 WEEKS TO GO: Put a massive week plus a day or two into filling as many gaps as possible, concentrate on the big ticket items from your revision.

3 WEEKS TO GO: Look at the top 64 I have included below and ensure that these are part of the topics you have studied and have summaries of, as they seem to come up regularly.

2 WEEKS TO GO: Go over the top 25 I have included below and make sure that you know these. Now I can't guarantee they will come up, but I will say that quite a few of them will.

THE WEEK BEFORE THE EXAM: Go over your notes and think about how a question might be phrased. Think of drug dosages(but don't memorise endless infusion rates etc). Look at the admin questions and remember the general approach to all admin etc...
Remember what's important; ECGs, ABGs, X-rays, Paeds, Trauma will be there as will O&G.. all those things we have said. This final week is about getting everything systematised in your brain, so you can think of differentials.
The last exam was big on a descriptive stem and then asking for Differentials and then Management.
If you can't think of a differential have an approach as below:
Differentials list:
  1. Traumatic
  2. Inflammatory
  3. Neoplastic
  4. Vascular
  5. Infective
  6. Metabolic
That should be enough to give you a good list of differentials, with the most appropriate differential on the top of your list.

 Then go get-em!

25 Topics List

The list of 25 topics that I think will be on this exam:

​1 Kid with a wheeze

2 BRUE
3 Paeds Seizure/Status Epilepticus
4 DKA
5 Burn
6 Pelvic fracture
7 Supracondylar fracture
8 Flail Chest
9 Penetrating Neck injury
10 Internal Disaster

11 Adverse event
12 Blocks
13 STEMI

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​14 Hyper K
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15 Thyroid Storm
16 Priapism
17 Ischaemic Bowel
18 Lower GI Bleed
19 Hyphaema
20 Painfull LOV- Glaucoma
21 Orbital Cellulitis
22 Pre-eclampsia
23 Serotonin syndrome
24 Hydrofluoric Acid Burns
25 Addisonian Crisis

The Major List

This is a list of 60 or so topics that have been present in the last few exams and there is a high chance that they will repeat.
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