Is success in postgraduate examinations associated with family practitioners' attitudes or patient perceptions of the quality of their consultations?
Any advantage in physician quality conferred by passing the MRCGP exam was not detected in this study. Further research into the predictive validity of postgraduate examinations is required preferably using a wider variety of patient and audit based methods.
Lp-PLA(2) activity might add significant prognostic information in the early evaluation of TIA patients.