The UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test (Paperback)

Are you a medical student preparing for the UKMLA exam? A practical companion to the textbook, The UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test: Practice Questions provides a comprehensive revision tool for any student looking to succeed in the exam. The book features over 500 multiple choice questions (MCQ) covering all the clinical presentations and conditions required for the examination. Each MCQ includes five answer options and explanations for both the correct and incorrect answers are provided, allowing readers to test the knowledge gained from the main textbook and supporting student recall and comprehension. Conveniently organised into 18 areas of clinical practice, the book follows the General Medical Council's exam content map and is ideal for on-the-go revision. An essential preparation resource for UK based medical students, and students sitting the PLAB examination.

Ian Hodgins, GP at Plymouth University. Dr Ian Hodgins is a General Practitioner based in Buckfastleigh, South Dartmoor. He also holds the position of Lead for the Clinical Assessment Panel, Peninsula Medical School. Ian's medical career took him from Kings College, London (where he qualified in 1990) to Margate, Kent and ultimately to Plymouth. Ian has great experience in creating, improving, mending and occasionally binning applied knowledge questions. He leads the local question writing panel and is an active participant in a national one.

Dr Elizabeth Drake is Director of Clinical Studies and Honorary Associate Professor at Peninsula Medical School. Currently she works as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Plymouth. She completed her masters in Clinical Education and is the Deputy Head of Peninsula Medical School. She has a vast experience of under- and postgraduate examinations from both an educator and examiner perspective. She graduated in medicine from the University of Southampton in 1998 and trained in anaesthesia in the Oxford region and Vancouver Canada. Highlights of her clinical career include being the anaesthetist for the safe delivery of conjoined twins and writing the first and widely quoted paper on training and reaching competency in epidural anaesthesia.

Steven Burr is a Professor of Medical Education at Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth. Steven Burr started as a university student in 1990. Having now graduated from five different ivory towers and having had a multitude of different roles in medical education, Steven thinks that he knows a thing or two about what students both want and need to know. Only now is he beginning to realise that these may actually have been two different things all along.