NICE: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – Yeah, I had to do that š
NICE guidelines tend to be vast. Time-consuming, but some topics are essential and cannot be avoided.
Reading the “Summary of Recommendation” will be helpful to get an idea about the whole guideline. But in order to grasp the concept, reading the whole thing is needed at least once.
There are flow charts/tables which you should use for answering EMQ or SBA, when they ask what your next plan of management in a scenario.Ā
Here are some of my tips:
Make your own notes. Highlight the important points. Points that you think can come in exam. When you come across questions based on these, make a mark or note by the side.
It was impossible for me to read and memorise things when they are in soft copy. So one ‘old school’ way is, I always print out things which I wanted to read and highlight.
I know you can’t print everything, but at least the summery of recommendation needs to be printed out. This will help you tremendously with the revision. Revise only the highlighted areas or your own notes before an exam. It’s not easy to read them again & again.
Keep your self-updated with new versions/changes of the NICE. These tend to change, usually subtle changes like the GTOP.Ā New topics keep coming up every now and then, so keep a lookout for them.
After the Green Top Guidelines, NICE is the place to look for solving management issues. They deal with many practical aspects that you may not find elsewhere.
I have mentioned the important NICE topics to be read in another post, and provided links where possible,Ā as some people tend to get lost and unable to find the relevant guideline as NICE deals with all type of medical specialities.
Stay Glued!
Dear dr anjana
Im unable to find the āblog postā where i cn find the syllabus u put
N secondly wot do we mean by recommendation summary of guidelines …. like where are they found ..
Looking frward
Very new fr praparation !
Hey I wanted to ask that on rcog site, there are nice guidelines given about neonate. Do we need to read them also?
I did not read them specifically.
Hi Anjana, went through your blog. Thanks a lot for the wonderful information about mrcog 2 preparations.
I am registered with the trainees register at RCOG.How can you make the best use of it? Don’t have an idea of what all things you should read in that?
The STRAT OG is something you should be utilizing if you have access.
Please send me the syllabus Dr.Anjana on this email:***********@d****r.com
The syllabus is on the Blog posts. If you read them you will understand it. Also read the RCOG web site
Hi
Nice approach anjana
Dear Anjana , please can I have one notes of yours on any topic on NICE guideline as an example to understand that how to proceed to make my own notes . Please can you help I will be very thankful .
Hi, my notes are actually hand written in a note book. Transferring the material means, I need to type write them, which is indeed a lot of work, but I’ll see what I can do, to give you an idea how to make notes. Meanwhile Read the recommended summery of each NICE topic, before reading the full text, which is quite lengthy.
Thanks
Thanks so much
Dear Dr Anjana, please guide me as to what to do with Q like critical appraisal, sutures and forceps, error in age in referral letters…. Which came in last exam…
Well, I forgot the exact form of the question. Mail me them, and I’ll see how I can clarify them to you.
aslam o alaikum its really nice effort u r doing anjana Allah will bless u thanks
Glad to help. Let me know if you want any topics to be discussed
your guidance is very important
Glad to help. Keep reading and disseminate the information to others as well.
Thanks
Dear only recive 5 obstetrics NICE guidelines list…. is it sufficient… or u will post remaining list?
The whole obstetrics and Gynae list will be posted tonight. There was an error with publication today.
Thanks