FCPS Part 1 Behavioural sciences and ethics

Every behavioural sciences and ethics chapter in our FCPS Part 1 textbook, in CPSP syllabus order. Each chapter covers what past papers keep asking and ends with questions from our bank.

Behavioural sciences and medical ethics

  • Medical ethicsMedical ethics: four principles, consent, capacity, confidentiality and truth-telling
  • Communication skillsCommunication skills, breaking bad news, counselling and the doctor–patient relationship
  • Psychology and defence mechanismsPsychology: learning, memory, personality, attachment, defence mechanisms, stress, coping
  • Psychosocial healthPsychosocial health: illness behaviour, prevention, grief, culture, family and addiction
  • Psychiatry basicsPsychiatry basics: depression, mania, anxiety, psychosis, sleep and delirium