Revision MCQs and EMIs for the MRCPsych Practice questions and mock exams for the written papers

Part 1: The foundations of modern psychiatric practice
History of psychiatry
Introduction to evidence-based medicine
History and philosophy of science
Research methods and statistics
Epidemiology
How to practise evidence-based medicine
Psychological assessment and psychometrics

Part 2: Developmental, behavioural, and socio-cultural psychiatry
Human development
Introduction to basic psychology
Awareness
Stress
Emotion
Information-processing and attention
Learning theory
Motivation
Perception
Memory
Language and thought
Personality
Social psychology
Social science and sociocultural psychiatry
Cultural psychiatry

Part 3: Neuroscience
Neuroanatomy
Basic concepts in neurophysiology
Neurophysiology of integrated behaviour
Neurogenesis and cerebral plasticity
The neuroendocrine system
The neurophysiology and neurochemistry of arousal and sleep
The electroencephalogram and evoked potential studies
Neurochemistry
Neuropathology
Neuroimaging
Genetics

Part 4: Mental health problems and mental illness
Classification and diagnostic systems
Cognitive assessment
Neurology for psychiatrists
Organic disorders
Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses
Mood disorders/affective psychoses
Neurotic and stress-related disorders
Dissociative (conversion) hypochondriasis and other somatoform disorders
Eating disorders
Personality disorders
Perinatal psychiatry
Psychosexual medicine
Gender identity disorders
Paraphilias and sexual offenders
Psychiatric assessment of physical illness
Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes
Multiple chemical sensitivity
Mental health problems in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis
Pain and psychiatry
Sleep disorders
Suicide and deliberate self-harm
Emergency psychiatry
Care of the dying and bereaved

Part 5: Approaches to treatment
Clinical psychopharmacology
Electroconvulsive therapy
Transcranial magnetic stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation
Psychotherapy: an introduction
Dynamic psychotherapy
Family therapy
Marital therapy
Group therapy
Cognitive-behavioural therapy
Other individual psychotherapies
Therapeutic communities
Effectiveness of psychotherapy

Part 6: Clinical specialities
Addiction psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Learning disability psychiatry
Old-age psychiatry
Rehabilitation psychiatry

Part 7: Mental health service provision
Management of psychiatric services
Advice to special medical services
Forensic psychiatry

Part 8: Legal and ethical aspects of psychiatry
Legal aspects of psychiatric care with particular reference to England and Wales
Ethics and law
Risk Assessment

Biography

Basant K Puri MA, PhD, MB, BChir, BSc (Hons), MathSci, MRCPsych, DipMath, PG Cert Maths, Mmath
Professor and Honorary Consultant, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

Roger C M Ho MBBS (Hong Kong), DPM (Ireland), GDip Psychotherapy (Singapore), MMed (Psych) (Singapore), MRCPsych (UK)
Assistant Professor and Associate Consultant, Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Research Programme and Department of Psychological Medicine, University Medical Cluster, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and National University Health System, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ian H Treasaden MB BS MRCS LRCP FRCPsych LLM
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London; Head of Forensic Neurosciences, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK