I am beginning to prep for the AMC MCQ exam. I said I wasn't going to start yet, but I am not feeling confident in my abilities of an almost-doctor that I want to have a focused kind of "revision" of actual "what to do" when treating patients so I figured AMC prep might help me have some sort of plan.
I've been looking around the net and I think I'll do the HEAL bridging course, but not yet. It's 6 weeks so that it a trouble in the first place as I only get annual leave in 4 week blocks.
RACGPs has a 10-week fully online course but it's really only a MCQ question bank and I resent having to pay $2000 for 400 questions. Maybe I'll do it once I graduate. For now there are plenty of free resources around to keep me occupied.
This is my current strategy:
I have John Murtagh's General Practice text book that I'm using as my core text. There are 141 topic it! Too many to tackle cover-to-cover.
I have the RACGP list of top 30 conditions treated by GPs. I will list them for you:
I've been looking around the net and I think I'll do the HEAL bridging course, but not yet. It's 6 weeks so that it a trouble in the first place as I only get annual leave in 4 week blocks.
RACGPs has a 10-week fully online course but it's really only a MCQ question bank and I resent having to pay $2000 for 400 questions. Maybe I'll do it once I graduate. For now there are plenty of free resources around to keep me occupied.
This is my current strategy:
I have John Murtagh's General Practice text book that I'm using as my core text. There are 141 topic it! Too many to tackle cover-to-cover.
I have the RACGP list of top 30 conditions treated by GPs. I will list them for you:
- hypertension
- immunisation
- acute URTI
- depression
- diabetes
- lipid disorders
- general check-up
- osteoarthritis
- back complaint
- prescription
- oesophageal disease
- female genital check-up
- acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis
- asthma
- anxiety
- test results
- UTI
- dermatitis
- pregnancy
- sleep disturbance
- sinusitis
- gastroenteritis
- vitamin/nutritional deficiency
- malignant neoplasm of the skin
- abnormal test results
- atrial fibrillation/flutter
- oral contraception
- solar ketosis/sunburn
- ischaemic heart disease
- virus
So, I think knowing the top 30 conditions is essential, but also are the rare but life-threatening conditions.
Murtagh's has clinical boxes with an asclepius listing medical conditions which are important to know so I hope to go through those too.
On Facebook, I've liked the https://www.facebook.com/AMCprep page. They put up free AMC MCQs, only one every few weeks, but if you go to their page all the old ones are listed so you can work your way through those before you pay the $100 a month or whatever it is on their website.
So I'm beginning with that and hope to complete by the end of the year.
There's also a few things on YouTube if you hunt around.
I also have to hunt around for my next lot of placements.
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