With the explosion of information and the time constraint for the students to imbibe the vast volume of knowledge, coupled with scarcity of teachers dedicated to teaching undergraduate medical students, proper assessment, both continuous and summative, becomes a problem. This is where the use of multiple choice questions (MCQs) helps in measuring the depth of knowledge of a student in a short period of time without any subjective bias.
This book contains more than 2,500 questions in surgery, including applied anatomy and basic orthopaedics. Though clinical scenarios are not given, the teachers can use their creative ability to present one which requires the correct choice. There are very simple and also difficult questions in random order from which the teacher can choose according to his requirement. The book presents an excellent way of revising the entire subject before surgery theory examination.
U Santosh Pai MS (General surgery) is former Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka 2009 2020; Professor, Department of Surgery, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia 2004 2009; Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Manipal Teaching Hospital, Phokara, Nepal 2002 2003; Professor and Unit Chief, Department of Surgery, KMC,Manipal 1987 to 2002. He has over 40 years of operative and teaching experience and been teacher of surgery to more than 2000 undergraduate and a guide to around 150 postgraduate students. He has won Best Teacher Award many times during his career and has been an examiner to more than six universities both in India and abroad. Aptly he has dedicated this book to his teachers and medical students.
