I can usually predict about 30-50% of the paper. Some years we have hit 70%. This is the toughest year for predictions as the exam has gone a little left of centre. It has taken me up til now to come up with 20 predictions. I have also left it until late, to discourage people from just focusing on these. PLEASE have a look at these over the next week as the chance of some of them coming up is high. A couple may have come up recently and you would think they would not come up again, however i the last year or so, the college has broken that unspoken rule and repeated things in the next exam.
Good luck and enjoy.
short List PREDICTIONS
Pericarditis/Myocarditis
Kawasaki
Status Epilepticus
Flail Chest
Wrist Trauma
The Impaired Doctor
ECG: WCT
Upper GI Bleed
Syncope and the ECG
Orbital Cellulitis
Ecclampsia/Pre-ecclampsia/HELLP
Complaint
Thyroid Storm
Blood gas- favourite is met acidosis know the delta gap
Complaint/Adverse Event
Major facial injury
Major Abdominal injury
Internal Disaster
Acute Visual Loss
Ischaemic Bowel
HOW TO STUDY WITH 1 WEEK TO GO
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 exam is 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:
Traumatic
Inflammatory
Neoplastic
Vascular
Infective
Metabolic
That should be enough to give you a good list of differentials, with the most appropriate differential on the top of your list.