https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks Preparing to pass RCA UK GP exam en-us 2021-06-19 07:56:46 UTC 2025-09-26 21:09:57 UTC hello@padlet.com carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615344644 I’m very grateful to have passed my RCA first attempt May 2021 sitting. Big thanks to my Educational Supervisor, the  staff at LHS where I work, to Mark Coombes at 14 Fish for the info he puts on 14F and answering candidates queries so helpfully, the Medical Educators at Preston/Chorley VTS , my GPST peers, my study groups (especially Victoria), friends and family and lovely people who created other resources (I’ll detail later)]]> 2021-06-19 08:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615344644 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615346195 I love this text book, it’s sufficiently up to date and so much quicker (for me anyway) than trying to google, eg charts for peak flows. Handy to look a topic up before you telephone the patient ]]> 2021-06-19 08:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615346195 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615358332 Thanks to Victoria for recommending, this book totally changed my consultations , wouldn’t have passed without it]]> 2021-06-19 09:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615358332 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615361224 I think 14 Fish RCA package is a must have. There’s an amazing set of videos on clinical topics, videos showing consultations and how they would score and lots of advice about the exam in general ]]> 2021-06-19 09:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615361224 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615365906 Many thanks to Pennine VTS team , I had privilege to attend their 2 day course and their website pages and videos are amazing https://www.pennine-gp-training.co.uk/csa-courses-and-resources.html]]> 2021-06-19 09:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615365906 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615367952 Thanks to Erwin Kwun, your RCA Blueprint Course and coaching session were so helpful 
https://drerwinkwun.com/rcacourse/]]> 2021-06-19 09:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615367952 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615370166 This website is a brilliant resource, especially I used their RCA Marking sheet to self-rate my recordings and I adapted the log book of recordings idea to keep track of what recordings I had, which topics I’d got, did they meet any mandatory criteria and what score I gave them. So in the month leading to submitting I knew what cases I needed to get and which ones were weaker and best to swap for something better in a future recording. Hope that makes sense ]]> 2021-06-19 09:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615370166 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615373637 I used any feedback to identify my learning needs. In my case it was almost everything! To improve clinical knowledge , I wrote myself lists of red flags for every symptom I could think of, that took a long time and looking up in various sources. Then tried to revise these to get most of it to memory. For treatments you need to know the specifics, eg state the exact medication, dose etc, so I added notes to CSA books to have this easily to hand ]]> 2021-06-19 09:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615373637 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615377301 There are some useful CSA books, I added my own notes so that the exact doses etc were there on the page for reference. Example below. If you are doing an audio recording dipping into a book or CKS NICE etc is usually fine . The photo is from CSA Revision Notes For The MRCGP 4th Ed by Stannett and Osmond, + added extra info]]> 2021-06-19 10:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615377301 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615378121 Study groups are pure gold, I hope you will reach out to peers and arrange to get together weekly or so, whether on zoom or as suits you. I am very grateful to peers who so kindly studied with me]]> 2021-06-19 10:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615378121 carolynasher2014 https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615379136 I printed off from Bradford VTS a note about the kind of cases I needed, taped it to a box of chocolates and put it in reception 😃. I talked to colleagues about what kind of patients I needed. ]]> 2021-06-19 10:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynasher2014/Bookmarks/wish/1615379136