Cases for PACES, 3rd Edition

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You are better off spending your time practising your examination skills, practising history and communication scenarios and making sure that you have covered the entire curriculum. We’ve dredged every corner of the internet, every MRCP PACES book, and gotten feedback from all our previous students to form the most comprehensive meta-analysis of what commonly comes up in MRCP PACES. The authors have condensed their own experiences in learning and teaching PACES to provide you with exactly what you need to pass. Even though that is less common in day to day hospital medicine, it is more likely to come up in an exam. After the announcement that MRCP(UK) were re-configuring the format of the MRCP 2 PACES exam, we started to film brand new Patient Cases.

As such they will be able to inform you whether they can provide you with accommodation and how much it would cost or otherwise give you local advice about hotels that are nearby and travelling options. The patient’s clinical signs would be expected to have recovered in between being recruited and the exam day.MRCP PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) is a clinical exam testing clinical knowledge and skills of doctors hoping to begin higher specialist training (ST3). The MRCP(UK) 2020 Annual Report disclosed that 'Identifying Physical Signs' had the lowest pass rate; to address this, our resource will improve your ability to recognise clinical signs, including scars, respiratory sounds, heart sounds, and distinctive gaits. It can give rise to bronchial breathing, crepitations in the chest or even a parapneumonic effusion – all great clinical signs. It’s super-common for candidates to find out their exam location and date, and immediately try to figure out what cases have come up at that hospital previously.

We can’t promise that these will come up – but know these conditions inside out and you’ll have taken the most rational approach possible to your preparation and placed the odds on your side. But it’s much more probable that you’ll get a patient brought in from home with a transplant or chronic liver disease. As well as clinical videos our PACES preparation resource contains a variety of resources which help you to gain the theoretical knowledge needed to pass PACES. The layout of the stations and the subject matter simulates the real exam allowing you to revise for a clinical exam online.Including all the essential information for the exam in colour-coded sections for each station, it lets you quickly understand the most common cases. We still want you to have a great chance to clear your exam, though – so we’re proud to present a “Top Twenty” conditions to ensure you get adequate curriculum coverage.

If you’ve worked in hospital medicine, you’ll have very likely seen alcoholics, intravenous drug users, and other people with a history of substance abuse.There’s a decent chance that if you have a sound ability to diagnose these conditions then you’ll clear PACES entirely. If you understand how MRCP PACES is organised, you gain an insight into why certain clinical cases are much more likelyto come up than others. There is no way an acutely unwell patient who could deteriorate at any time is being brought into your PACES exam to be prodded and poked.

That’s ultimately why MRCP PACES courses might have a role to play in your exam preparation – they provide you with access to the same sort of patients that you might not see on the wards. Another feature of a hospital exam centre is not only the exam but the practicalities travel and accommodation. By having a few hours afterwards the worst that will happen is that you have to find a local cafe and have a cup of tea and cake whilst you wait for your bus or train. Cover all these “Top Ten’s” in detail and you’ll have covered a disproportionately large chunk of the curriculum. These include MRCP PACES tips for each station, role-play material which enables you to replicate the cases in each station, and MRCP PACES podcasts.But examiners are not likely to recruit these patients to their exams because they don’t want to deal with the hassle of a patient not showing up, or being under the influence of a substance during an exam.