The aim of this book is to provide a straightforward summary of the knowledge required for examinations in specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Part Two of the examination for Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists would be a good example. The volume is intended as a companion to the highly successful Basic Sciences for Obstetrics and Gynaecology which covers the knowledge required for preliminary examinations. Increasingly, examinations of all types are based on multiple choice questions (MCQ) or structured answer questions (SAQ). No apology is made for the fact that the present book addresses the sort of "fact" which lends itself to testing by this approach. Thus, there is little discussion of speculative or contentious areas, no account of present or future research, and no references. Numerous excellent books are available which cover these topics in a much fuller and more discursive manner, and the present volume does not seek to emulate them. Even the most apparently immutable facts are subject to periodic revision. We have attempted to present the "state-of-the-a.rt": most of the material is generally if not universally accepted. A particular problem arises with numerical information. Frequencies of diseases, frequency of clinical findings, efficiency of diagnostic tests and therapies, have almost always been the subject of numerous different studies, each of which yields somewhat different results.

Section I Obstetrics

1 Obstetric Statistics
2 Diagnosis of Pregnancy and Assessment of Gestational Age
3 Antenatal Care
4 Miscarriage
5 Ectopic Pregnancy
6 Gestational Trophoblastic Tumours
7 Congenital Abnormalities
8 Rhesus Disease
9 Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
10 Antepartum Haemorrhage
11 Disorders Involving Amniotic Fluid
12 Premature Labour
13 Multiple Pregnancy
14 Maternal Diseases in Pregnancy
15 Normal Labour
16 Abnormal Labour
17 The Puerperium
18 The Neonate
19 Obstetric Operations
Section II Gynaecology
20 Menstrual Disorders
21 Menopause
22 Virilism and Hirsutism
23 Genital Infections
24 Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Vulva
25 Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Vagina
26 Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Cervix
27 Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Endometrium
28 Benign and Malignant Tumours of the Myometrium
29 Tumours of the Ovary
30 Infertility
31 Contraception
32 Genitourinary Tract Disorders
33 Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
34 Congenital Uterine and Vaginal Abnormalities
35 Gynaecological Operations.