Oxford Assess and Progress: Medical Sciences

Oxford Assess and Progress is a new and unique revision resource for medical students. Written and edited by subject and assessment experts the series provides a wealt of popular assessment questions and extra features to be truly fit for purpose and assessment success!

Medical students will benefit from a comprehensive selection of Single Best Answer questions and Extended Matching Questions designed to test understanding and application of core medical science topics. Well illustrated, many assessment items are image based to prepare students for such exam questions. Chapter introductions provide a helpful quick overview of each topic.

Ideal companions to the best-selling Oxford Handbooks, these excellent self-assessment guides can also be used entirely independently. Oxford Assess and Progress: Medical Sciences doesn't simply reveal the correct or wrong answer. Readers are directed to further revision material via detailed feedback on why the correct answer is best, and references to the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences and resources such as medical science textbooks. Each question is rated out of four possible levels of difficulty, from medical student to junior doctor.

Carefully compiled and reviewed to ensure quality, students can rely on the Oxford Assess and Progress series to prepare for their exams.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Cells, tissues and molecules
1: Cellular structure and function
2: Cellular metabolism
3: Molecular and medical genetics
4: Nerve and muscle
5: Growth of tissues and organs
6: Techniques of medical sciences
Section 2: The biomedical systems
7: Musculoskeletal system
8: Respiratory and cardiovascular systems
9: Urinary system
10: Digestive system
11: Endocrine organs
12: Reproduction and development
13: Head, neck and neuroscience
14: Infection and immunity
Section 3: Medical sciences in clinical reasoning
15: Clinical application of medical sciences

Jade Chow, St George's Medical School, London, UK, and John Patterson, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University Of London, London, UK

Kathy Boursicot, St George's Medical School, London, UK, and David Sales, Consultant in medical assessment, Surrey, UK