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