FRCA texts

FRCA texts

General
Companion to Clinical Anaesthesia Exams (FRCA Study Guides) (Charlie Corke)
Clinical Notes for the FRCA (FRCA Study Guides) (Charles Deakin)

MCQ
Final FRCA: Multiple Choice Questions (FRCA Study Guides) (Michael D. Brunner)
QBase Anaesthesia: MCQs for the Final FRCA v. 5 (Edward Hammond)
MCQs for the Final FRCA (Khaled Elfituri)
MCQ's in Anaesthesia (FRCA Study Guides) (A. Ganado)
QBase Anaesthesia: MCQs for the Anaesthesia Final FRCA v. 2 (QBase) (Mark Blunt)
FRCA: MCQs for the Final FRCA: Saunders Self Assessment Series: MCQs for the Final FRCA (FRCA Study Guides) (Karen Henderson)
Practice MCQ's for the Final FRCA (FRCA Study Guides) (Jon Hardman)

SAQ
Anaesthesia & Critical Care (Chris Dodds & Neil Soni)
Short Answer Questions and MCQs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Peter Murphy)
Short Answer Questions in Anaesthesia (Simon Bricker)
Final F.R.C.A.: Short Answer Questions (J. Nickells)

SOE
The Anaesthesia Science Viva Book (Simon Bricker)
The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book (Simon J. Mills)

Primary textbooks to use for the Final FRCA:

- The A-Z of Anaesthesia (Smith, Yentis)
- Basic Physics and Measurement in Anaesthesia (Kenny, Davis)
- Essentials of Anaesthetic Equipment (Al-Shaikh, Stacey)
- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Peck, Hill, Williams):
- Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials (West)
- Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia: the second edition is well-updated topically and contains some interesting extra sections which will aid in exam revision.
- Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Sasada, Smith): again great for viva practive
- The Anaesthesia Viva 1(Urquhart, Blunt, Pinnock, & Dixon): Physiology 7 Pharmacology. Common SOE questions with model answers. Great for last minute SOE revision.
- The Anaesthesia Viva 2(Blunt, Urquhart, Pinnock, & Chong): Physics, Clinical Measurement, Safety, & Clinical Anaesthesia, as above
- The Structured Oral Examination in Anaesthesia (Balasubramanian, Mendonca, & Pinnock): I found this so useful again even for the Final exam – 10 full SOEs divided by topic with model answers.
As stressed before, this list of textbooks is not exhaustive, merely the ones I used. Some of my fellow candidates used additional textbooks such as Anatomy for Anaesthetists (Ellis, Feldman, & Harrop-Griffiths) and various specialist physiology texts.