Cardiovascular Physiology ─ Questions for Self Assessment With Illustrated Answers

An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology provides the student with the key concepts of cardiovascular physiology, from the fundamentals of how the cardiovascular system wroks in both health and disease, through to a consideration of more complex physiological mechanisms. This brand new companion work, Cardiovascular Physiology: Questions for Self-Assessment allows students to test themselves on all aspects of the topic with over 200 questions and answers, at a pace to suit their learning. Questions follow An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology's table of contents, and the author has set at least one question on each chapter's learning objective to help the student assess their progress against the set objectives. The questions are designed to test basic understanding, fundamental principles and medical relevance, and they avoid excessive detai. Most are in a multiple choice, True/False format, with a sprinkling of other question styles including extended matching questions, where the reader chooses the best answer from a list, and testing little numerical prolems. Also included with the answers are "More Information" boxes that include a brief description, and links to relevant information and figures from a range of chapters, thus encouraging integration of learning across the subject.

J Rodney Levick is Professor of Physiology, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK