Set pieces and Competing priority lists for FRACP
exams*
Set pieces:
- Management of atrial fibrillation (e.g., scoring
systems for risk of stroke)
- Management of long-term complications of
corticosteroid use
- Management of obesity and immobility
- Choice of DVT prophylaxis (see criteria for medical
patients here)
- Diagnostic algorithms and scoring systems for
pulmonary emboli
- Use and
reversal of warfarin
- Self-management strategies for chronic disease
(includes assessing insight)
- Advanced care planning and end of life
- Assessment & management of depression (use
screening questionnaire)
- Dealing with non-adherence to prescribed
medications
- Smoking cessation strategies (e.g., nicotine
replacement)
- Assessment & management of secondary hypertension
- Nutritional assessment & management of malnutrition
- Management of chronic pain in medical patients
- Contraception & fertility in medical patients on
long-term medications
- Approach to continence issues
Competing priorities:
- Balance between infection & immunosuppression
- Anticoagulation (e.g., for AF) in someone with
increased risk of bleeding
- Management of bleeding in setting of thrombophilia
- Management of erectile dysfunction in men with IHD
*With some thanks to the DeltaMed course