The Only MRCP Notes You’ll Ever Need 1 / 546 www.sudamedica.com Hani Abuelgasim M. Hussam A. Albanna The Only MRCP Notes You’ll Ever Need 2 / 546 www.sudamedica.com MRCP, The Only Notes You Will Ever Need, 4th edition © January 2012 3rd edition © October 2010 2nd edition © January 2010 1st edition © September 2009 Copyright © 2012 SudaMediCa Publications ISBN: pending issuance All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The Only MRCP Notes You’ll Ever Need 3 / 546 www.sudamedica.com PREFACE These notes intended to target those who are appearing in MRCP exam. The idea behind it was collecting the most commonly tested topics and facts in the exam for my personal revision. The data has been collected from many sources. This book was not prepared to be the primary studying source but it can help you after finishing your primary reading by arranging the thoughts in your mind and making every topic as short as possible by highlighting the most important points about it. You may use it just before going through your favorite MCQs book or internet site. A friend of mine appeared in part one for couple of times, he reached to a conclusion and gave me a valuable advice that said ‘when preparing for MRCP, study MRCP! Don’t study medicine!’ this book helps you to study MRCP rather than studying medicine. But at the end, you have to be a good physician otherwise MRCP will be a less valuable recognition, this is why I would advise to study medicine before you study MRCP and for sure before you say that you are a member of the Royal College you have to be upto the expectations. This edition contains the latest guidelines including 2011 guidelines and recommendations. It is more organized than ever. In the 4th edition we have added topics that matters for part two, we have added many pictures, we claim that it’s just enough to get you through the second part comfortably. The study pattern we recommend is: 1. Study one chapter of your choice from this book 2. Solve the same chapter’s questions either on www.passmedicine.com, www.onexamination.com or www.pastest.co.uk 3. Study another chapter and go online to solve its question, continue until you finish all the chapters in the book and questions on your website of choice. 4. Revise the whole book. 5. Start solving questions randomly from another website (other than the website you have chosen to solve chapter by chapter) 6. Now you have probably solved at least 4000 BOF questions, you have seen all the question patterns in MRCP, now you need to stabilize the information you have gained through your journey 7. The most important step is to revise this book again just before the exam, this should be the last thing you do just before going to the exam. Solving question till the last moment is not recommended, you have probably gathered enough amount of information in your study, try to fix the information by reading this book. All candidates who followed this pattern have passed comfortably and no single one gave us a negative feedback in both parts. Hani Abuelgasim M., MD Author The Only MRCP Notes You’ll Ever Need 4 / 546 www.sudamedica.com DEDICATION To Mehiara, my late daughter who stole my heart and left To my lovely Ahlam, who kept being patient and kind while I was studying To my parents who always supported me Hani Abuelgasim M. The Only MRCP Notes You’ll Ever Need 5 / 546 www.sudamedica.com CONTRIBUTORS Dr.Hussam Albanna Cardiology Registrar MBBS, MRCP UK Dr.Ahmed Ali Abuzaid Medicine Specialist MBBS, MRCP UK, MRCP Ireland Dr.Salma Othman Senior Cardiology Resident MBBS, MRCP Part 1 Dr.Ahmed Elmotaz Mahgoub Nephrology Specialist MBBS, MRCP, Nephrology Diploma (Sheffield, UK) To contribute to the next edition, please send your contributions to