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Drugs choice and dose for a disease Pharmacology and formulary- Medical pharmacology taught in medical school contains drug's pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. These contain drugs absorption, metabolism, excretion, action, side effects, toxic effects, drugs classification,mechanism of action, interactions. They usually don't say a drug's route of administration, dose, formulations, choices in different diseases, duration of treatment etc. This is described in formulary books. There are many formulary available. Among them BRITISH NATIONAL FORMULARY (BNF) is mentionable. There are lots of formulary. They are updated time to time according to large scale data analysis, whereas medical books are almost constant. For this reason, classical text book or treatment guidelines don't mention exact dose, duration, choice of drug etc usually. So, before prescribing a medicine just know the name of drug from current guidelines, then follow the FORMULARY BOOK for dose ,duration...

MRCP UK part 1 and Part 2 Written exam are both Written exam. They are both BEST OF FIVE pattern answer. Both part contain 2 paper(1&2),each paper contain 100 questions ( total 200 questions in each part 1 and part 2 Written). There are a few differences in between them. 1. Part 1 has basic science questions but part 2 doesn't have. 2. Part 1 doesn't have pictures, part 2 questions contain picture (about 30 questions have pictures) 3. Part 1 is more knowledge based, part 2 is more clinical. 4. Part 1 directs more to pathology of disease, but part 2 Written directs more to diagnosis, management, investigation and data interpretation . 5. Subjects for part 1 Specialty - Number of questions* Cardiology 14 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 15 Clinical sciences** 25 Dermatology 8 Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic medicine 14 Gastroenterology and Hepatology 14 Geriatric medicine 8 Haematology 10 Infectious diseases 14 Neurology 14 Oncology 5 Medical ophthalmology 4 Palli...

 Neurological examinations: When the topic comes to neurological examinations, sudden immense pressure comes to mind. Become very confused ,puzzled by how to do these nasty examinations. But this is totally unnecessary anxiety.  Neurological examinations are very methodical. When one performs these test in a well sequenced fashion ,can easily reach to a diagnosis. Question is how to find easy method and which book to be followed. I read a few books,but found those very confusing and unnecessarily written like theory book,no proper and guided instructions. Then I came to know about these books. 1.1️⃣ Neurological examinations made easy By Geriant Fuller💖 2. 2️⃣ Aids to the examinations of peripheral nervous system💖 I have found these 2 books extremely helpful for neurological examination. Just read these books and examine patient accordingly. These are written in very easy way. You can easily follow these procedure, come to a conclusion , make  good differential diagnose...

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How to send PMQ Scan and email your documents to the relevant administration office, using the following guidelines: All candidates who register to take examinations in the international centres should scan and send their documents to: PMQ@mrcpuk.org Candidates who register with London Administrative office (covering Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Oxford, and Southampton, ) should scan and email documents to: PMQ@mrcpuk.org Candidates who register with Edinburgh Administrative office (covering Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, and Sheffield) should scan and email documents to: Part 1: MRCPUKPart1@rcpe.ac.uk Part 2: MRCPUKPart2@rcpe.ac.uk Candidates who register with Glasgow Administrative office (covering Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds, and Liverpool) should scan and email documents to: mrcp1@rcpsg.ac.uk Candidates who are registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) in the United Kingdom do not need to send their Primary Medical Qualifications. Th...

Submission of documentary evidence of primary medical qualfication Photocopies of certificates and/or official translations (in English)* will be accepted only if they have been prepared and authenticated by one of the following: issuing University or Medical School a British Consulate or British Council outside the UK British Embassy British High Commission candidate’s own Embassy High Commission in the UK a member of the Gardai in the Irish Republic Government Ministries of Health a notary public a Fellow or Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians or a Chair of the Examining Board of the awarding body (verification of the Fellow or Member will be sought to ensure that they are affiliated with the issuing University/Medical School and the authenticated copy should be submitted with the authenticator’s full name, their Royal Colleges of Physicians code and an accompanying official stamp or letter from that Fellow, Member or Chair). * Candidates must submit an authenticated translati...