The Primary FRCA Structured Oral Exam Guide 2 (MasterPass)

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Agree with others that this book is riddled with (quite serious) mistakes including mixing up ionised and unionised proportions / wrong values on hysteresis curves. There are other - lazy - typos including having CYP2D6 as CYPZD6 etc. Ultimately, it's all very annoying, and even somewhat upsetting that these authors took so little trouble to proof-read before releasing this (second!) edition for the miserable anaesthetic trainees revising for part 1.It needs constant double checking and cross referencing and I think much of it is taken from Peck and Hill anyway - the wording seems so similar. Save your money and sanity and stick with Peck and Hill.

A helpful book when preparing for the Primary FRCA but there are a number of errors throughout the book which means I can't trust it 100%.For example, structure of enflurane drawn without a Cl atom (page 26), dose-response curves with x-axis labelled time instead of dose (page 32 and 33), treatment for asthma written as alpha-2 agonist instead of beta-2 (page 177).It's still useful but the errors are a real shame when trying to prepare for such a tough exam. It needs a good proof read before the next edition.

Fantastic book - I used it to revise for my viva and passed with excellent marks.In retrospect I should've also used it for my MCQ.Layout excellent, font size good, overall very easy to read.Contents were extremely comprehensive - together with its companion book it covers nearly everything you need to know for the viva, and provides a good base/structure for the MCQ.The drugs section were particularly good with each individual drug drawn as spider diagrams which make them easy to read and digest.

The simple bite size approach and mostly helpful ways to categorise answers is all useful. However it is riddled with mistakes almost everywhere you look which makes it very hard to trust. I am constantly having to cross reference which becomes time consuming. It is a useful aid with other books, but I wouldn’t use alone unless a new edition with corrections was published. I wouldn’t have bought it if I’d known this before.

Well structured and would be a good book to prepare you for the SOE (after revising from more detailed textbooks), if it wasn’t full of mistakes. Be very vigilant relying solely on this book. Peer review recommended prior to new edition release.