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Best of Five MCQs for MRCPsych Paper 3 This page intentionally left blank Best of Five MCQs for MRCPsych Paper 3 Lena Palaniyappan Clinical Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Rajeev Krishnadas Clinical Lecturer, Sackler Institute of Psychobiological Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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The authors and publishers do not accept responsibility or legal liability for any errors in the text or for the misuse or misapplication of material in this work. FOREWORD Do you ever look at the breadth of the MRCPsych curriculum and fi nd your heart sinking? As a candidate it can feel that there is just too much to learn – so many topics – so many books and papers – where do you even begin? This book represents an excellent way of starting. It forensically approaches the MRCPsych Paper 3 curriculum and identifi es areas that can be easily examined using best of fi ve-style MCQs. Doing this is essential to reduce and focus down on what and how you learn. This book will help you impose a structure on your entire approach to revising for the exam. You can use it both to test what you have learned to date – but also crucially to help you direct and plan your learning also. It will help you focus your reading and learning. You will learn that that the best approach is to prepare with the exam in mind. This involves both learning the sort of information required and also considering how you will deliver this effec- tively under exam conditions. Addressing all the component parts of the MCQ and containing 450 questions and answers Best of Five MCQs for MRCPsych Paper 3 goes a long way towards focus- ing and structuring your revision. If a candidate used this book to identify key topics and then supplemented the answers here with short additional reading, I believe they would be well-placed to pass this component of the exam. But of course, knowledge is only one part of passing the exam. The authors know this and provide a helpful overview to the whole exam, and how to prepare for it. Candidates are advised how best to plan their revision, structure their learning, work alone and with others to revise – and reminds readers that there really is life afterwards! It will make it less likely you fail this part of the exam. But if you do, remind yourself why you are interested in psychiatry and in your patients. Step back and try to keep things in perspective, take a holiday, talk to family and friends. Time is a big healer. Then when you’re ready, pick the right time to do the exam – that works for you and your life. Sit it for your own reasons rather than because others expect it of you. Use the techniques and focus this book gives you to pass. It will certainly help. Professor Chris Williams Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry University of Glasgow This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This third book in MRCPsych MCQ series has been helped by numerous trainees attending SPMM Course and PassAppraisaL course in London for paper 3 revision. We are grateful for all trainees, who are mostly members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists now, for supporting our work in producing this series. Special thanks to Dr. Adil Akram for reviewing two chapters (Forensic and General psychiatry) in this book. Dr Rinku Alam provided constructive insight into psychotherapy chapter. Dr Sunanda Ghosh offered very helpful advice on child psychiatry. Dr Rahul Tomar provided immensely practi- cal suggestions in rewriting some questions in the chapter on old age psychiatry. We are grateful to Dr Agnihotri and Dr Chekuri for reviewing the addictions chapter; Dr Jim Crabb and Dr Adam Burnell for reviewing the organic and liaison psychiatry chapter and Dr Everett Julyan for reviewing the psychotherapy. We are indebted to Professor Chris Williams for providing the foreword. Dr Sree Murthy offered many helpful suggestions throughout the production of this book. Heartfelt thanks to Priya and Sindhu for tolerating our never-ending affairs with the word processors. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Introduction 1 1 General adult psychiatry Questions 9 Answers 21 2 Forensic and rehabilitation psychiatry Questions 35 Answers 45 3 Child psychiatry and learning disabilities Questions 59 Answers 69 4 Old age psychiatry Questions 81 Answers 91 5 Substance use disorders Questions 105 Answers 115 6 Organic, liaison, and perinatal psychiatry Questions 131 Answers 141 7 Psychotherapy Questions 155 Answers 165
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