Tips and tricks on how to ace your exams
Throughout our years as students and now as experienced Doctors, our Crash Course team have used almost every learning resource imaginable. And, despite us all coming from a wide range of medical school backgrounds, we have each felt we were using these resources without clarity as to what our syllabus should be. This is a major stumbling block when trying to learn!
When coming across a new topic, I would often
find myself thinking:
Is this worth learning?
If so… to what extent?
Surely not to the amount of detail provided in this book?
This motivated us all as a team to form the Crash Course Series - to remove the excessive amount of baggage that students in the health sciences are all too used to. We wanted to make this series with your exams in mind and with a clear set of topics that meets your specifications. We consistently provide you with learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, so you can keep track what you have and haven’t covered.
We have tailored our series of books with your examinations in mind
We have made this series in an easy to read and clean format, all with a logical structure.
We have kept each topic concise whilst exploring each respective speciality with sufficient depth so you can gain confidence in the material covered.
Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics, integrating clinical information with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. This guides you succinctly through the topic, giving full coverage of the curriculum whilst avoiding unnecessary and often confusing detail.
A range of text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! Moreover, a fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation: honing your skills.
To vary the learning experience and augment your learning, we have included a downloadable eBook in addition to an online platform the accompany the series.
The most important aspect to our books are our mock single best answer (SBA) and extended matching questions (EMQ) styles of questions
We believe the best way to gain a wide-knowledge base is through repetition. Yet, there is a huge lack of high-quality questions out there that are in the style that you’ll come across in your finals. We wanted to accurately represent SBA/EMQ style questions to build familiarity of exam like conditions for the student – and the Q+A section is perfect for this.
We test you on everything that is covered within the chapters and we do so in a way that is similarly challenging to the real thing. This is also useful for last minute revision, as we cover commonly used examination questions. This is such a valuable resource and we hope you enjoy learning with it as much as other students have over the last 20 years.
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About the series editor
Having been at the coalface of exams and teaching not too long ago, Philip Xiu has the expertise to guide medical students like you.
Philip has shared his insights on how to study for your exams, and how to make the best use of the crash course series. Tap into his extensive knowledge on how to tackle exam stress and get access to his insider tips and tricks in these four blog posts.
Philip Xiu
BA, MA, MB BChir, MRCP
GP
Registrar, Yorkshire Deanery
Series Editor - Crash Course Series
