A Revision Guide Paul Bentley Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology, London, UK £25.95,  978-1-85315-420-1,  512pp,  Paperback,  July 2007

MAD Magazine - January 2008
'The book really delivers to you the stuff you need to know without boring you.'

Doody's Book Review Service
This is a brilliant compendium of the major fields of medicine in easy-to-digest, and, more importantly, easy-to-memorize formats. Injected with wit, humour, and serious medical facts, readers will be able to ingest and digest ample amounts of knowledge.

Queen's Medical Magazine - Spring 2008
'It is a useful aid for revision, presenting information in a grouped and organised fashion…a visual learner should definitely benefit from this book.'

Amazon customer review
What more can I say, this is an excellent book. Supplements your core clinical medicine text really well. Wonderful mnemonics throughout, highly recommended! I no longer use my notes now!

Professor Brian McGuinness MD. FRCGP, DRCOG, DCH, EFFP (retired)
The relevance and value of this new study aid to anyone preparing for a clinical academic examination is obvious. It will be a significant tool in the collection of devices needed to support if not actually guarantee a pass grade in finals. One may recommend it without hesitation and congratulations are due to the author on his enterprise and major contribution to learning medicine.

Ever thought that memorizing the list of all the investigations to do for a medical condition were 'BUMMERS' to recall? Not now that you remember that this is also the acronym for Bloods, Urine, Microbiology, Monitoring, ECG, Radiology, Surgical and Special!

Mnemonics often bridge the gap between traditional modes of revision and the ability to perform well in exams and in practice. This revision book uses mnemonics to help you memorize multiple lists and copious facts to the lengthy lists and facts of modern medicine.

This book takes an original approach to applying well-established psychological techniques in memory enhancement to the contents of standard medical textbooks. Using a wide variety of techniques including chunking, acronyms, tree-diagrams and pictures, it is packed full of information on all aspects of the medical undergraduate syllabus while the finer detail provides excellent guidance for postgraduate revision.

Facts are presented in a hierarchial fashion, so that the essential features of each disease or symptom can be grasped immediately, while finer points are accessed only by more detailed reading.

Mnemonics have been devised to be memorable in themselves, e.g. hepatitis = T.A.B.O.O.; atrial fibrillation = A.T.R.I.A.L. S.W.I.T.C.H.; and the terms are presented in the order that they make sense to be remembered.

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