Who led the rebel forces at the battle of Evesham?
: Gilbert the Red
: John Baliol
: Simon de Montfort
: Wat Tyler
: Jack Cade
This is a “best of five” question—a question with five possible answers, only one of which is correct. The other answers sound reasonable to those without a good knowledge of English history, but they are wrong.
BMJ Learning's interactive website offers online learning resources to help you with your appraisal and revalidation. We ask best of five questions throughout our learning modules because this type of question closely mimics the way that doctors think: they see a patient, then think of possible diagnoses, and then pick the most likely one from the different options. So this type of question tests your decision making ability rather than just your ability to recall facts. As a result, most of the royal colleges now use such questions in their exams.
Our new learning modules on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease outline how to diagnose and treat this condition. They also give an update on recent advances such as the role of spirometry in diagnosis and pulmonary rehabilitation in treatment. At the end of the modules, you can try our best of five questions to find out what you have learnt.
And in case you were wondering—Simon de Montfort led the rebel forces at the battle of Evesham, but Edward Longshanks won the day.