Description
Finding out what you no longer know
Clinical practice is a poor test of knowledge. It repeatedly exercises the same twenty conditions and leaves everything else to decay quietly, which is why a physician can be excellent in their own case mix and unexpectedly weak just outside it. Nothing in a normal working week will reveal that.
Structured self-assessment will. These 1,000 questions are set to board standard and cover the whole of cardiology rather than the part any one clinician sees, which makes them an efficient way to find the decay before a patient does.
Why the explanations matter more than the score
Every option is analysed, not just the key. For a practising doctor this is the useful part: a question answered correctly by reflex still shows, in the explanation, whether the reflex was sound. Clinicians frequently report discovering that a habitual practice rests on evidence that has since moved.
Continuing professional development
Self-assessment with documented feedback satisfies the CPD requirement in most jurisdictions and is among the better-evidenced formats for actual retention. Directory members commonly work a chapter a month and keep the record. Members should confirm the requirements of their own regulator, which vary considerably.
Coverage across 546 pages
Coronary disease and revascularisation, arrhythmia and devices, heart failure, valve disease, adult congenital, imaging, preventive cardiology, lipidology and pharmacology. Where an answer depends on evidence, the explanation names the trial and states the guideline year — relevant given how rapidly antithrombotic and heart failure recommendations have changed.
For
Practising physicians and cardiologists maintaining breadth, doctors preparing for international board or licensing examinations, and senior residents.
Access
PDF, lifetime access, via CardiologyBooks.com.
