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FRCYay! Diagrams

  • Course
  • 27 Lessons
  • 180-day access

The primary FRCA exam curriculum references a lot of concepts that lend themselves to graphs and diagrams. These images crop up time and time again especially in the viva, and learning how to reproduce them quickly, accurately and confidently will massively increase your success rate and impress your examiners. Let us talk you through how we draw these diagrams under pressure!
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What's included in this package?

The diagrams course doesn't aim to teach you the full underlying concepts behind these topics- we assume you've got that already. What this course will teach you is how to understand the diagrams the examiners expect you to recognise, and how to rememeber ways to reproduce these images under pressure in a viva. 

FRCYay! Diagrams Introduction

Drawing graphs and diagrams under pressure is a core part of success in the FRCA viva and communicates a lot to your examiners in a short space of time. This course will help you memorise ways to reproduce common graphs and diagrams in a structured way.

We have divided the topics up in to the usual three categories of physiology and anatomy, physics and measurement and pharmacology.

Course Introduction
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Physics and Measurement

Defibrillator Circuits
Circle Circuits
Breathing Systems
Ventilation Modes
Vapourisers
Cardiac Output Measurement

Pharmacology

First and Zero Order Kinetics
Three Compartment Washout Curve
Context Sensitive Half Life
Dose-Response Curves
Isotherms
Isobolograms

Physiology and Anatomy

Cardiac Cycle
Valsalva Manoeuvre
Frank Starling Diagram
Arterial and Central Venous Pressure Waveforms
Total Lung Compliance
Dead Space- Fowler's Method
Flow-Volume Loops
Oxygen-Haemoglobin Dissociation Curve
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Oxygen Cascade
Autoregulation of Cerebral Blood Flow
Action Potentials
Arterial Supply to the Brain
Autoregulation of Glomerular Filtration Rate
Proximal Convoluted Tubule Substance Handling