PREDICTIONS

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

1. Pericarditis/Myocarditis
2. Kawasaki
3. Status Epilepticus
4. Flail Chest
5. Wrist Trauma
6. The Impaired Doctor
7. ECG: WCT
8. Upper GI Bleed
9. Syncope and the ECG
10. Orbital Cellulitis
11. Ecclampsia/Pre-ecclampsia/HELLP
12. Complaint
13. Thyroid Storm
14. Blood gas- favourite is met acidosis know the delta gap
15. Complaint/Adverse Event
16. Major facial injury
17. Major Abdominal injury
18. Internal Disaster
19. Acute Visual Loss
20. 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:

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.

 Go get-em!