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Hello!

I met a friend of mine who just passed his MRCS 1 exam with a score of 79%.So i asked him for help too .He is very kind indeed as he provided me with following info.

Books which he read:
BRS for physio & Pathology ( but he wasnt satisfied with Pathology ,he told me read some good book for Pathology )So I ahve decided to read Robbins but not the big one .

Anatomy Snells review & Atlas.

He will soon give me all his books so only then I can tell you which books he followed for his question solving .

The Qs as far as he could recall are as under.

Cancers are very frequently asked in MRCS exam .
The following were asked in April exam Esophageal ca:the Qs mostly asked for Ca are related to risk factors like vial causes ,rest of etiology ,then spread & CT related staging.
1.Esophageal Ca: is associated with
achalasia
Sliding hernia
Baretts

2.Parotid tumor
3.Breast Ca
4.Bladder ca
5.Thyroid ca
6.Colorectal ca
7.skin ca
Unfortunately he forgot specific Qs ,but atleast he said u can have an idea about the Qs.
He was telling me last time most of paper was from Physio.

8.Aortic Aneurysm
Indications for surgery:
Cholesterol level( he forgot the level

)
Age
thickness of wall
BP

9.Phlebitis:
signs & symptoms:
pain
ankle edema
pigmentation

10.ARDS

11.Cirrhosis:
in extra hepatic portal hypertension is there seen
splenomegaly
Hepatic Encephalopathy
ascites

12.Epidural Anaesthesia :
side effects
Resp depression
acidosis
posterior column damage
urinary retention

13.Blood transfusion:
Complications
hypothermia

14.blood grouping
antigen
antibodies

15.Markers for hepatitis
for careers etc

16.Gastric mucosa pH
how it maintain its pH
effects of fatty food
proteins
tumors like zollinger ellison on pH

17.Complications of ulcer

18.Diuretics

19.K balance

20.Arrythmias

21.Neonatal blood:
quantity
osmolality
neonatal immunology

22.ACTH

23.Fat embolism
related to

BMI
Pregnancy
Pulmonary embolism
MI
Fracture

24.Colon
Diarrhea if 5L diarrhea then its effect on
Cl & HCO3

25.Raynauds is seen in:
Scleroderma
DM
RA

26.Horner's

27.MEN 2

28.Pyriform fossa
blood supply
nerve supply

29.Sarcoidosis:
Sign & symptoms present or not
spleen
lymph nodes

30.Infections:
Staph epidermidis
aureus
an IV canula have green slimmy layer what is the causative agent?

31.Q on normal commensals?????

32.CNS tumors

glioma etc

Anatomy Qs
33.Muscles originationf from chest wall:
Pectoralis major
Teres major
Serratus anterior
Latissimus dorsi

34.Scalenus Medius
relations?

Costophrenic angles extends from which to which rib

35.Renal adenocarcinoma

36.In blood

Ach
alk phosph
K
he forgot the Qs????????/

37.Inferir vena cava Anatomy relations

38.liver relations

39.gall bladder relations

40. phrenic nerve course & relations

41.Pancreas relations

42. Knee joint anything related to trauma

43.Esophagus:relations
bronchi
aorta
vagus nerve
thyroid

44.Superior mediastinum

starts from T4

45. Thyroid gland relations

46.Azygous vein relations

48.Hodgkin's disease

49.Basilic vein course & where it enters in axillary

50.saphenous vein course & perforators

51.TRAUMAphysiological changes( he prepared from core)
effect on hormones like
cortisol
thyroxine
insulin
Growth hormone
blood sugar level
B drenergic receptors

52.cervical injury
effect on brachial plexus resultant injury
different levels of injury

53.fractures & their mechanismof injury:

spiral
transverse
pathological

54. Fracture healing
age
old,young

55.causes of non healing?

56.If periosteum is lost or damaged wil fracture heal

57.If callus is formed then it will develop into which bone
woven etc.

Well friends! this is all he could re call .It was very strange to write all these as such but it helped me a lot in getting an idea what the exam really is.
Another friend of mine promised me he'll give me more qs ,as soonas i get I'll post them on forum.

Regards.

Guest · Credits: 78425 My Scrapbook My Reading List 262569 Books

thats great Erum, its good to see taht people r still making efforts to help others.
well there is a small confusion abt part2 intercollegiate, is it similar as system module or we have to do the basics as well?
Anyone who has already taken the exam or knows abt part2 kindly answer my query.
Thank you.

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Hello again!

I have gone once again thtough all ht eforum to find out any bits & pieces of FEEDBACK on exam & lucky me got some more themes:

Magnesium is
a)cerebral vasoconstrictor
b)used in ventricular arrythmia
c)contraindicated in SVT

subclavian steal syndrome

what all does CRF cause?

damage to facial n. during parotidectomy.

transection above L4 causing paralysis of LL muscles.

Damage/compression to common peroneal n.

absorption in colon

bright red stool in a child

organisms in sputum

appendix

pharyngeal pouch

nephrotoxic drugs

..........well! the search is still going 8) .Hope others will contribute as well.

Regards!

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please let me know how can you know your marks once you are succesful. even i passed my MRCS 1 but i do not know my marks and when asked they told me that if you are succesful you cant know your marks

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When u pass MRC exams they send u a letter or u can say a report card .In which they mention you have passed this exam & scored this much as pass marks were these............& urs was .............something like that.
hope this answers your query!
Good luck!

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thanx erum, you're doing a great job, hope to get more of such informative posts from you.

jiya the intercollegiate part 2 is clinical problem solving. for a detailed overview of the syllabus, you can check the royal college intercollegiate syllabus at

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they outline the syllabus of basic sciences into Applied surgical Anatomy , Physiology (general physio + system specific physio) and Pathology (general + system specific)

then the next headings (which should mean the clinical problem solving part as the previous heading was basic sciences) state Principles of surgery in general, and Surgical Specialties.

hope it helps,

wolf

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