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Pass the PSA, 2nd Edition

Authors :
William Brown & Kevin W Loudon & James Fisher & Laura B Marsland
Date of Publication: 03/2020
Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.
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Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.

Key Features

This latest edition:

  • Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing (the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic)
  • Specifies the universal basic principles of prescribing for all sections
  • Examines each section's question structure and how to approach it
  • questions (structured identically to the exam) that conclude each chapter
  • Covers all scenarios suggested for questioning in the PSA blueprint
  • Highlights common traps throughout
  • Contains two mock exams
  • Includes finals-level sections on data interpretation and management

Author Information
By William Brown, BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FHEA, Academic Clinical Fellow Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK; Kevin W Loudon, MBBS, MRCP(UK), FHEA, Renal Registrar, East of England and ST3 Renal Medicine, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK; James Fisher, BSc, MSc, MBBS, Core Psychiatry Trainee, Central & North West London NHS Trust, London, UK and Laura B Marsland, MPharm, ClinDip, Previous Lead Pharmacist for Neuroscience, Stroke & Rehabilitation at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK