Final FRCA Exam Preparation Guide

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The document provides information on the exam format and recommended study materials for the FCAI Written and OSCE/SOE exams. The FCAI Written exam consists of a 180 minute SBA section with …

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  • Exam Format Overview
  • Fellowship Syllabus Area
  • Resources and Study Materials
  • Examination Focus and Study Guides

FCAI Written

SBA 90 questions- 180 minutes


SAQ 10 questions- 200 minutes (split 2 sections)
-3-6 subparts per question
-25 marks per questions
Books
 BMJ Education (formerly CEACCP) – [Link]
 Dr Podcast Scripts for the Final FRCA – Leslie, Johnson
 Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists: Key Concepts for the FRCA – Cross,
Plunkett
 Yao & Artusio’s Anesthesiology, by Fun-Sun F Yao
 Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia, Fourth Edition, by Brian Pollard
 Smith and Aitkenhead’s textbook of Anaesthesia, 7e, by Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett et al

MCQ/SAQ Books
 Q Base Anaesthesia Series 
 SAQs for the Final FRCA – Shorthouse **Highly Recommended**
 Short Answer Questions in Anaesthesia –  Bricker
 SBA and MCQ’s for the Final FRCA Rakesh Tandon – Oxford Specialty Training
 The Final FRCA Short Answer Questions: A Practical Study Guide, by Elizabeth Combeer
 SBAS For the Final FRCA, by Caroline Whymark
 SAQs for the Final FRCA, by James R. Shorthouse, Graham Barker, Carl Waldmann
 Final FRCA: 300 SBAs, By Kariem El-Boghdadly, Imran Ahmad
Websites [Link]
[Link]/[Link]?id=2 [Link]
[Link]/main/ – useful ICU resource [Link] useful ICU
resource [Link] useful ICU resource Question
Banks [Link]

FCAI OSCE/SOE
SOE (3 SOEs)
-each SOE 6 clinical cases – 5 minutes each case
SOE 1 will focus on perioperative medicine, patient optimisation and data interpretation.
SOE 2 will examine all aspects of general anaesthesia and pain medicine.
SOE 3 will test knowledge on intensive care medicine and advanced sciences which underpin the
practice of anaesthesiology.
-Each question will start with a short clinical scenario and will map to the anaesthesiology curriculum as
either a core, modular and specialist units.

General Books
 BMJ Education (formerly CEACCP) – [Link]
 Dr Podcast Scripts for the Final FRCA – Leslie, Johnson
 Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists: Key Concepts for the FRCA – Cross,
Plunkett
SOE Books
 Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book – Barker **Highly Recommended**
 The Anaesthesia Science VIVA Book – Bricker **Highly Recommended**
 Structured Oral Examination in Clinical Anaesthesia: Practice Examination Papers – Mendonca
 The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book, by Julian M. Barker
Websites [Link]
[Link]/[Link]?id=2 [Link]
[Link]/main/ – useful ICU resource [Link] useful ICU
resource [Link] useful ICU resource Question
banks [Link]

FCAI Written
SBA 90 questions- 180 minutes
SAQ 10 questions- 200 minutes (split 2 sections)
-3-6 subparts per question
-25 ma
Books

BMJ Education (formerly CEACCP) – http://bjaed.oxfordjournals.org/ **ESSENTIAL**

Dr Podcast Scripts for the Final F

Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists: Key Concepts for the FRCA – Cross, 
Plunkett

Yao & Artusio’s Anes
SOE (3 SOEs)
-each SOE 6 clinical cases – 5 minutes each case 
SOE 1 will focus on perioperative medicine, patient optimisati

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