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"Hot Topics in General Practice" is one of the best-selling MRCGP revision guides. The book is now comprehensively updated on an annual basis and published even more rapidly to ensure it provides the very latest information for readers: this new edition is current to the end of 2005 and is written specifically for the 2006 MRCGP exams. This is the most up-to-date "Hot Topics" book available. The book continues to summarise the key publications from the most influential and authoritative medical journals including: "British Medical Journal", "British Journal of General Practice", "The Lancet", "New England Journal of Medicine", and "Evidence-Based Medicine". The book follows a consistent structure to aid understanding - each topic: starts with a review of what is already known; lists the current guidelines and key trials; and summarises the key articles published in the last 2-3 years. This latest edition of "Hot Topics in General Practice" provides readers, whether MRCGP candidates or qualified GPs, with the easiest possible means of keeping up-to-date with the articles that are influencing general practice.

Hot Topics in General Practice for the 2006 MRCGP

Practice Issues: The Consultation; Concordance and prescribing; Teamwork and morale; Accessing care; Information technology; Models of care; Pharmacists; Nurse practitioners; Training; The pharmaceutical industry; Quality; Health inequalities Clinical Issues: LIFESTYLE Alcohol; Drug misuse; Diet; Vitamins; Exercise; Smoking; Obesity and metabolic syndrome CARDIOVASCULAR Atrial fibrillation; Antithrombotics; Hypertension; Lipids; Coronary heart disease; Heart failure; Stroke; Diabetes RESPIRATORY Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Respiratory infection and antibiotics; Influenza MUSCULOSKELETAL Arthritis; NSAIDS; Back Pain OSTEOPOROSIS HRT OLDER PEOPLE Older People; Falls MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS MENTAL HEALTH Recognising Mental Illness; Depression; Suicide DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SCREENING Screening concepts; Colorectal cancer; Prostate cancer; Aortic aneurysm; Breast cancer; Cervical cancer SEXUAL HEALTH ALLERGIES COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES DYSPEPSIA AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI UROLOGY IMMUNISATION