Hi guys, just finishing my first clinical year and coming up to exams. I've used a two textbook combo of detail/understanding book (K/C big or Davidson's big) and Oxford Handbook to learn my SBA knowledge. So many SBAs test the first line treatment of conditions/first line investigations as in the NICE guidelines. However, I find that big textbooks are awful at telling you the order of investigations or treatment (something that SBAs love: "which is the MOST appropriate investigation/treatment or "first line"). The Oxford Handbook isn't great either (e.g. heart failure: it just lists the drugs not the fact that you have to give ACE-I and beta blocker/CCB then add spiro etc). I've actually learnt guidelines through Passmedicine.
Is there actually a better way of getting to grips with guidelines except through Passmed? They surely can't expect us to trawl through 200 page documents per condition and even the summary pathways are not concise. Any advice greatly appreciated as I go into my specialties year next year.