PACES for the MRCP: with 250 Clinical Cases: With 250 Clinical Cases (MRCP Study Guides)

The author not only explains examination techniques and clinical signs, but also goes that step further to ensure the reader really understands each topic, using clinical examples, question and answer/discussion sections as well as detailed illustrations.

Where this text also outshines the others is with the inclusion of chapters covering the History Taking and Communication/Ethics stations of the exam. The scenarios are "spot on" and give the reader plenty of examples to work through. The Neurology section is brilliant.

Overall: An excellent and up-to-date text, this is the new MRCP "Bible" - don't sit your exam without it.


Excellent!   February 26, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a breath of fresh air in a market that 'Ryder' seems to have saturated. Well laid out, easy to read and utterly relevant. Also serves as a useful reference tool post-membership too. Buy it!


Better than Ryder   January 17, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book clearly covers all the stations you will meet in a no nonsense format. Extensively illustrated with diagrams to improve your examination skills.

Good advice for the stations that candidates overlook preparation for ie ethics and history taking that form a disproportionate part of the exam.


Best Paces book out there   March 3, 2007
Mephistophelean (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The problem with MRCP Paces is that there aren't that many books out there to read. The main texts are the Ryder books and this one.

In my opinion this book is better than the Ryder text. It treats each station comprehensively and in a logical format. The problem with the Ryder books are that they are very haphazard. The books jump from one topic to another, almost as though you are reading what came into Ryder's head next!

Baliga doesn't have many pictures (as noted in many of the reviews under that book) and is far more theoretical than the Hall and Ryder books.

As noted in previous reviews, Hall also gives some detail to the communication and ethics station compared to either Baliga or Ryder.

It's slightly unfair to compare the Hall book to Ryder and Baliga as Hall has the definite advantage of having been published later and so can respond to how the Paces exam has developed.

Having said this, buy all four books (this, the two Ryder and Baliga). They all have different detailed examples in them and it's important that you get as wide a variety of examples before taking the Paces. As noted above, there aren't enough books out there currently for Paces candidates to pick and choose books.

Anyone want to write one?


An Excellent Book   March 18, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

I think this is an excellent book to read for anyone sitting for PACES