The “Paediatric Clinical Examination” is now in its fourth edition, and rightly so, because it is helpful to all working in pediatrics. Professor Denis Gill and consultant paediatrician Niall O’Brian from Children’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, have done a wonderful job with this small and handy pocketsize book for students, residents and others working with children. The book has 11 chapters...
This book and the others in the series are essential in my opinion to anyone taking the paediatric MRCPCH exams. You will need to read around some of the topics and the layout is sometimes a little difficult to extract pertinent information. Use it like a syllabus and an almost complete set of revision notes the week before the exam.
This book endeavours to cover all the essential areas of paediatrics for the MRCPCH exam. It is surprisingly easy to read (especially compared to its MRCP equivalent) and has enough text to make it more than just a book of lists and tables. I'm finding it memorable and surprisingly interesting. This review is of the first edition, which I bought 2nd hand, and the 2nd edition may be even better....
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Bellman and Kennedy have spotted a gap in the market and filled it. This is a concise clear textbook covering the syllabus for the DCH, written by DCH examiners. Saves trawling through larger paediatric tests and emphasises the relevant facts. On the down side I would have liked a summary of each development check however and it looks like every other textbook Churchill Livingstone have ever published...
I thought this is a very good aid to go every evening through two or three cases. Short cases are supposed to be the main obstacle for the paediatric membership. It worked and I scored best in short cases. The authors limit the cases to relevant ones, however it is still a lot work to do. Each disease is roughly on one page with essential information. Every one is divided into the same paragraphs,...
