Annotations allowed in books for exams

[Revolutionnaire]

For example, in the BNF, can you have written explanations of what medical terms mean, explantion on diseases, NICE guidance notes and formulas written on the inside cover, etc?

As long as there are no loose sheets of notes right..?

[Nik]

From the pre-reg handbook:

"The text as printed may be supplemented by hand-written [not printed] highlights, tabs, corrections and comments. The intention is that the annotation should complement the purposes of the adjacent text..."

I wouldn't have thought disease explanations, NICE notes or formulas would be allowed. As for definitions of medical terms, invest in a medical dictionary early on and look up things you don't know through the year.

[Revolutionnaire]

From the pre-reg handbook:

"The text as printed may be supplemented by hand-written [not printed] highlights, tabs, corrections and comments. The intention is that the annotation should complement the purposes of the adjacent text..."

I wouldn't have thought disease explanations, NICE notes or formulas would be allowed. As for definitions of medical terms, invest in a medical dictionary early on and look up things you don't know through the year.

Oh rats...I have to go get a new BNF then....I've annotated it to death.

If they take away yr BNF I heard they have no replacements

[Nik]

I believe the BNF allowed for next summer is edition 60, which some places still haven't received - I'm still using 59. Don't know about replacements although presumably they do a few spot checks in BNF's before the exam.

[crit care]

its not a case of spot checks..everyone gets their books checked before going into the exam....but they flick through it for glaringly obvious pages of extra notes...they don't sift through every page

[meaniebeanie]

hey dont worry ive written loads of stuff in mine, inc formulas, enzyme inducers & inhibitors etc. they dont check for stuff that you have written, they only check for extra papers put in, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR BNF. Just dont put extra papers in your bnf, mep, dt.

[Revolutionnaire]

hey dont worry ive written loads of stuff in mine, inc formulas, enzyme inducers & inhibitors etc. they dont check for stuff that you have written, they only check for extra papers put in, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR BNF. Just dont put extra papers in your bnf, mep, dt.

Ok thanks, I've written all sort of stuff that is related to the text "eg 20 drops per ml in eye drops" on the eye drops page and definations of medical terms as they crop up in there eg what parts of the body are and what zollinger-ellison syndrome is.

There is a page that is covered with text though...if they don't take away the BNF, I'll hopefully be fine