Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine

Author: Inyang Ukot

Affiliation: Plot 11, Road 1, Federal Housing Estate Off Abak Road, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine

Volume 3

ISBN: 979-8-89881-106-8
eISBN: 979-8-89881-105-1 (Online)

Introduction

Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs (Volume 3) expands the trusted series with a comprehensive collection of multiple-choice questions that sharpen clinical reasoning and reinforce essential concepts across three vital domains of medical practice: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine.

Designed for medical students, postgraduate trainees, and practicing clinicians, this volume combines exam-focused preparation with real-world applicability. The carefully structured chapters not only test knowledge but also strengthen diagnostic accuracy, therapeutic decision-making, and holistic patient management skills.

Key Features:

  • - Covers critical areas of psychiatry including anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia, substance use, psychotherapies, and geriatric psychiatry.
  • - Explores pediatric essentials from neonatal care and congenital conditions to malnutrition, infections, tumors, and cardiac disorders.
  • - Integrates principles of family medicine such as holistic care, ethics, genomics, health promotion, preventive strategies, and clinical audit.
  • - Strengthens exam readiness with detailed answers, explanatory notes, and differential diagnoses.
  • - Contains comprehensive index and bibliography for further study and clinical practice.

Readership:

This volume serves as an invaluable resource for medical students preparing for exams, residents honing their diagnostic skills, and clinicians seeking a practical refresher in these core disciplines.

Foreword

Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine contains material that reasonably covers the three specialties indicated in its Chapters yet is of a reasonable size. It is unique because, unlike typical textbooks in Medicine, it is short although it encompasses three specialties.

The book covers two hundred and ninety-five multiple-choice questions (MCQs) of the single best answer format. Each MCQ has an unambiguous stem which is further enhanced by making the font bold. The book makes a reasonable attempt to apply Bloom’s taxonomy with a balanced distribution of MCQs between the lower and upper segments of the ladder, therefore making the book suitable for medical students and clinicians. Every MCQ in this book provides the reader with four options of which only one is the best – qualifying it to be the Answer. No matter how close any of the other options is, just one is the Answer; the reader should choose that one.

This book contains Answers that are backed with robust Notes. Many of the Notes are satisfactorily referenced using the Vancouver style. This book further includes a comprehensive Index, thus providing the reader with what is an uncommon feature of existing MCQ books in Medicine. Chapters 1 and 4 of this book are on Mental Health. Chapter 1 contains seventy-five questions which the author selected carefully. Chapter 4 contains the Answers and Notes for the MCQs.

Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 contain MCQs, Answers and Notes on General Pediatrics. There are one hundred and twenty multiple-choice questions which the author selected carefully to cover the most common conditions in Pediatrics globally.

Chapters 3 and 6 include selected topics in Family Medicine. The one hundred MCQs with their Answers and Notes on indispensable topics come under theoretical and practical aspects of this broad specialty.

I have followed Inyang’s interest and contributions in authoring books on the basics in Medicine and I am glad that he has included these three essential areas but especially Mental Health which is often overlooked. I earnestly hope that including these aspects of Mental Health will aid physicians suspect and promptly identify mental illnesses, initiate treatment, and activate referral before severe complications occur. The book should be invaluable to medical students, general medical practitioners, and residents- especially in Family Medicine.


Dr Owoidoho Udofia
MD, FMCPsych, FWACP, FNAMed, DFMC
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Calabar
Calabar, Nigeria

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University of Calabar Teaching Hospital
Calabar, Nigeria
Past Registrar, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (2017–2021)

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