"Conclusions are usually considered guesses" Henry S. Haskins, American
writer in Meditations in Wall Street Students' minds, whether
undergraduate or postgraduate, soon become stale when faced with
lectures or even not so large textbooks. Supplementing lecture notes and
textbooks with multiple-choice questions, therefore, attunes the mind to
this style of examination which the student will certainly meet and yet
also relieves the tedium and monotony of the conventional learning
route. This multiple-choice textbook, therefore, should be used side by
side with lecture notes, textbooks and clinical teaching material. The
book covers a wide field of genitourinary medicine. This necessarily
overlaps with general medicine, urology, bacteriology, virology,
psychiatry, sexual medicine, im- munology and proctology. With regard to
immunology, a basic set of teaching questions are included so that HIV
disease may be more easily understood without recourse to immunology
textbooks. The answers to the questions are not given in a uniform
style. This is partly to relieve monotony, and partly because some
questions need no explanation, others need a prose answer and yet others
are best answered by a point-by-point explanation. We also provide
references for those interested. There is some overlap between questions
but only enough, we hope, to facilitate learning but not produce
somnolence.
