Techniques in Clinical Neurophysiology: A Practical Manual

Abstract

examination. At the start of each subsection the key areas to be covered are outlined although inclusion of these in the table of contents would have been helpful and made for a more useful contents page. Each topic commences with a lead question followed by a series of co-related questions; sample answers are provided in a semidiscursive style and follow closely the anticipated reply that the more able and fluent candidate might be expected to provide. Questions are predominantly presented as closed questions, the style currently favoured by the educationalists, followed by the information required in the answer and often accompanied, for clarification, by line drawings and tables. Many suggested answers contain far more information than could be covered within the 5 minutes allocated to each topic in the exam proper. This is, however, an inevitable consequence of trying to 'cover all the bases' but may alarm the prospective candidate with respect to the required depth and breadth of information needed to obtain a simple pass.