Self Assessment

The following are a short series of questions which may help you decide if you have mastered the key objectives for this month stated earlier in this guide. 

1. What medications will you choose to carry in your on-call bag?  Justify each.

2. What are the general features of a child needing hospital admission?  How does this correlate with the baby check system widely used by parents?

3. What is your preferred choice of combined oral contraceptive pill?  Why? What information do you think a patient should have before starting the COCP for the first time?

4. How would you deal with a patient presenting to the reception desk with chest pain?

5. What are the features of clinical depression presenting in primary care?  How do you assess suicidal ideation?  What are the preferred treatments?

Mr Jones comes to see you with acute dizziness which comes on whenever he moves his head.  He has vomited intermittently for 5 days, and appears worried.

6. How would you help him?  How do you address his worries?

7. What Read Code would you use? Write out your consultation summary using the SOAP system.

8. He asks for a “sick note”, how do you respond?  What do you write?

9. Complete the following for each staff member at the practice:

Tip: You should discuss your answers with your trainer.  His/her feedback should make the basis for a very interesting tutorial.