ABSTRACT
The questions are mostly in best-of-five format, to reflect the current style of multiple choice questions used in examination, though we have included some open questions when that is more appropriate for the topic and as a basis for the tutorial sections. We have expanded many of the clinical stems to a size that is rather larger than that encountered in examinations. This provides a platform for a sequence of questions in the longer cases that improves the educational function of the book and more rigorously tests the reader’s deductive thinking. We have phrased some questions in the negative. This reflects the reality of decision making in clinical practice, so we believe it is justified. Some topics and themes appear more than once; again, this is deliberate and serves to reinforce certain important messages.
