Teach Me Anaesthetics reached out and offered to sponsor GasGasGas, this resulted in a serious question bank assessment session!
The Ultimate Resource for the Primary FRCA
It seemed right and proper that GasGasGas reviews Teach Me Anaesthetics in the manner of a militant academic with a dastardly predilection for detail.
Having spent a month picking apart and getting pulled apart by all the questions in the Teach Me Anaesthetics FRCA Primary question bank. I will say it was a luxury, a delight and an absolute joy! The FRCA primary exam is a test in breadth as well as depth and these SBAs slice through the curriculum like Lord Nelson through the combined Franco-Spanish fleet!
I can definitely recommend it as a great resource for the content you need to learn, and also how to handle the awkwardness of SBA questions, which have what seems to be an unlimited potential to catch you out in the exam! You will find Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Physics and Equipment and the dreaded Maths and Stats, which is rarely a favourite, but is often easy marks if you can recall what flavours of data for what flavour of t-test/mann-whitney madness matches up, and TMA has your back on this!
There are over 1100+ questions that grapple with the FRCA Primary curriculum, so you can be sure your knowledge will be absolutely tested. There are notes for each question which will build on your knowledge and remind/explain concepts as you work through it!
Naturally you’re going to want to track your progress, revisit questions and even split out easy vs hard questions and this is all possible with the quiz building apparatus!
It is always worth going back in the last week before the SBA exam and re-doing any questions you’ve gotten wrong, it’s well known that no human on Earth can consistently remember the difference between Elastance and Compliance for any longer that 14 minutes at first try, so revisiting this sticky subject areas is made far easier. And seeing as its optimised for mobile and desktop, gone are the sticky notes on the bathroom door!
Who is behind such a behemoth of SBA Building work?
Teach Me Anaesthetics has been painstakingly put together by Dr Sam Barnes and Dr Jon Emberey, who, having succeeded in the Primary FRCA both agreed that the current educational material on offer to check your knowledge against reality lacked anaesthetic flair. I can attest to this absence of flair having used one of the other anaesthetic question banks from those main providers in times gone by. It felt that they had re-used questions seemingly from the other banks (I also have MRCP 1 and 2), which were hammered to the hilt with NICE guidelines, whereas the FRCA primary is Anaesthetic Science and Anaesthetic Practice and TMA hits the nail on the Primary head.