Abstract
The series, ‘Mastering your Fellowship’, provides examples of the question format encountered in the written and clinical examinations, Part A of the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians of South Africa (FCFP [SA]) examination. The series is aimed at helping family medicine registrars prepare for this examination. Model answers are available online.
Highlights
This section in the South African Family Practice journal is aimed at helping registrars prepare for the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians (FCFP [South Africa; FCFP (SA)]) Final Part A examination and will provide examples of the question formats encountered in the written examination: Multiple choice question (MCQ) in the form of single best answer (SBA – Type A) and/or extended matching question (EMQ – Type R); short answer question (SAQ), questions based on the critical reading of a journal and an example of an Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) question
The MCQs will be based on the 10 clinical domains of family medicine, the EMQs will be aligned with the five national unit standards; and the critical reading section will include evidence-based medicine and primary care research methods
We suggest that you attempt answering the questions, before finding the model answers online at https://www.safpj.co.za/
Summary
This section in the South African Family Practice journal is aimed at helping registrars prepare for the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians (FCFP [SA]) Final Part A examination and will provide examples of the question formats encountered in the written examination: Multiple choice question (MCQ) in the form of single best answer (SBA – Type A) and/or extended matching question (EMQ – Type R); short answer question (SAQ), questions based on the critical reading of a journal (evidence-based medicine) and an example of an Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) question. (4 marks) A model answer will include aspects of the proposed management for ‘Hospital-based care for patients with severe symptoms who are not candidates for critical care admission & ventilation if they deteriorate’ (see pages 8–12 of the PALPRAC guidelines; these and other resources are available from: https://palprac.org/for-healthcare-providers/palliativecarecovid-19/). Reference 2 is a thesis from the University of the Witwatersrand which is not an appropriate primary source of data supporting the increasing rate of CS delivery in South Africa It is ‘a comprehensive analysis of C-section rates in all public sector hospitals during 2000/2001– 2008/2009 by facility, district and province’, it uses ‘secondary data obtained from the National Department of Health’s routinely collected data specific to Caesarean sections in the DHIS’. It is unfortunate that this was presented as a binary < or > 1 year, as there might be a falloff in competencies of more senior staff who are no longer routinely involved in giving anaesthetics
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