ABSTRACT

Multiple-choice questions are an ideal way to improve understanding and revise for examinations. This book consists of 200 MCQs in psychiatry suitable for candidates for postgraduate examinations such as the MRCPsych. However medical students general practitioners psychiatric nurses clinical psychologists psychiatric social workers and psychiatric occupational therapists will also find it useful as a valuable revision guide. The questions have been carefully selected to reflect the educational needs of psychiatrists in training. Most questions are accompanied by a short answer to provide an ideal self-teaching book for all those wanting to revise for examinations and improve their understanding of this important area.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|30 pages

The physician’s fee

chapter 2|18 pages

Time

chapter 3|28 pages

The bedside manner

chapter 6|30 pages

Treatment: successes and failures

chapter 7|16 pages

The ‘correct’ degree of detachment

chapter 8|16 pages

‘It’s all a cruel hoax’

chapter 9|8 pages

The ward round

chapter 10|26 pages

The physician’s social status

chapter 11|12 pages

The physician in court