Reading List

GP / Non-Clinical / Gen Med / Exams / Specialities

These are not books that you must read, or that the VTS advise you to read. These are books that current and past members have found helpful and which may be of interest to you.

The original Barnet Reading list is now huge and mostly out of print. If you have any suggestions for additions to the new version please email us.

 

General Practice

  • The Nature of GP
  • Consultation Skills
  • Health Promotion
  • Chronic Illness
  • Psycho-Social Problems
  • Common Problems /Diagnostic Skills
    • Symptom Sorter 3rd Edition. Keith Hopcroft and Vincent Forte. Radcliffe Publishing (2007)

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Non Clinical

  • Management
  • Ethics and Law

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General Medicine

  • General Medicine
  • Care of the Elderly
  • Common Medical and Surgical Problems
  • Medical Emergencies
  • Prescribing

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Exams Revision

  • DCH
  • DRCOG
  • nMRCGP
    • Get Through, MRCGP: Clinical Skills Assessment. Bruno Rushforth and Val Wass. RSM Press (2008).
    • Cases and Concepts for the new MRCGP: Clinical Skills Assessment and Case Based Discusion. P.Naidoo. Scion Publishing Ltd (2007).
    • nMRCGP Practice Papers: Applied Knowledge Test. Rob Daniels, PasTest (2007).
    • nMRCGP Practice Questions: Applied Knowledge Test. Rob Daniels, PasTest (2008).

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Medical Specialties

  • Paediatrics
  • Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Sexual Health and Family Planning
  • Palliative Medicine and Terminal Care
  • Ophthalmology
  • ENT
  • Minor Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine

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