Aiming High

Well, I'm on a course in Liverpool at the moment, and it's quite interesting.
We're not sure where to aim our standard of answers, but right now we think that doing an SAQ and an MCQ a day with some, erm, interesting questions with interesting (highly detailed) answers, is pushing things a bit.
One of the things we've been hearing a lot about is Cardiac. Someone pointed out that there hasn't been a cardiac question the last couple of years. I haven't checked, but if that's the case, then there is a high probability of one coming up in the SAQ this time round.
1 week, days to go.

Another pointer from James

James pointed out, as did a lecturer on a course recently, that there hasn't been a pain question for some time in the SAQ.

Pain questions should probably be answered with the following keywords:

Biopsychosocial
Multimodal
Multidisciplinary
Time-contigent
Guideline based

somewhere in the answer.

One of the possible questions that might come up is a question about the organisation of a pain team, the reasoning being that there is a requirement in the CCT to be aware of this, and it's more or less the only thing that hasn't been asked!

Mr Angry

Recently I had the opportunity to be deeply irritated (understatement of the century) by a charge nurse. It has disrupted 2 days of my studying dealing with both the anger and the upset, and indeed the fallout from dealing with it.
My advice: "Enhance your calm" whilst studying, which may be best served by taking annual leave/study leave as my friend has done.
I wish I had.