MD and DNB Psychiatry · Theory Revision

Weave Sprint

Forty study days and four illustrated theory papers, for Papers I to IV of the postgraduate psychiatry theory exam.

Every file is free to read online and free to download. There is no login, no payment and no email gate, now or later. This is the Weave Sprint exam corpus, forty study days and four papers, not the psychotherapy WP-01-Sprint volume.

All forty days. Nothing held back.

44 files40 study days4 papers7,431 day pages
Riso-style illustration of a revision desk: a stack of stapled zine booklets, a steaming cutting glass of chai on a saucer, and an open booklet of hand-drawn brain diagrams with a pen resting across it.

Showing all 44 files

Full paper · Days 01-07

Paper I, Foundations of Psychiatry

Illustrated edition

The basic sciences, set down the way the theory paper asks for them.

Functional neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, neurochemistry and neuroimaging with basic psychopharmacology, psychiatric genetics, general and developmental psychology, social and learning and personality psychology, psychometry with assessment and descriptive psychopathology, and research methods with biostatistics and epidemiology. Seven complete sets of notes, compiled into one illustrated book.

Pages1,040
CoversDays 01-07
Size76.3 MB
FormatPDF, free to download
Read onlineDownload

Dr. Wilfred D'souza and Dr. Niharika Reddy

Cover render of Weave Sprint Paper I, Foundations of Psychiatry, generated from its title page

Full paper · Days 08-19

Paper II, Clinical Psychiatry

Illustrated edition

Every clinical syndrome, from how it presents to what you prescribe.

Schizophrenia across aetiology, phenomenology and management, the other psychotic disorders and catatonia, mood disorders in both their clinical and pharmacological halves, substance use disorders by substance, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders, the dissociative and conversion group, personality disorders, eating and sleep-wake disorders, the somatic-symptom and sexual and impulse-control disorders with suicide, and the psychotherapies with clinical assessment, mental state examination and nosology. Twelve days, one book.

Pages2,046
CoversDays 08-19
Size53.6 MB
FormatPDF, free to download
Read onlineDownload

Dr. Wilfred D'souza and Dr. Niharika Reddy

Cover render of Weave Sprint Paper II, Clinical Psychiatry, generated from its title page

Full paper · Days 20-29

Paper III, Speciality Psychiatry

Illustrated edition, Colour-Corrected v2.2

Where general adult practice ends and the specialities begin.

Normal child development, intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with the specific learning and communication disorders, child behavioural and emotional presentations, and the assessment, treatment, services and protection framework around them. Then mental health legislation and forensic psychiatry, forensic ethics and consent and legal procedure, electroconvulsive therapy and neurostimulation, perinatal and emergency psychiatry, and consultation-liaison with geriatric and transcultural practice. Ten days, one book.

Pages2,295
CoversDays 20-29
Size54.2 MB
FormatPDF, free to download
Read onlineDownload

Dr. Wilfred D'souza and Dr. Niharika Reddy

Cover render of Weave Sprint Paper III, Speciality Psychiatry, generated from its title page

Full paper · Days 30-40

Paper IV, Neurology, Medicine and Recent Advances

Illustrated edition, Colour-Keyed v1.1

The interface with medicine and neurology, and the advances examiners keep returning to.

Epilepsy and psychiatry, neurology foundations for psychiatrists, the dementias and neurocognitive disorders, endocrine and metabolic psychiatry, stroke and traumatic brain injury with delirium and the focal brain syndromes, and the neuropsychiatry of systemic and neurological disease. Then psychopharmacology in two parts, principles and core drug classes followed by emergencies, treatment resistance, monitoring and interactions, with recent advances and landmark studies, community psychiatry and public health, and medical and systemic-disease psychiatry. Eleven days, one book.

Pages2,172
CoversDays 30-40
Size62.6 MB
FormatPDF, free to download
Read onlineDownload

Dr. Wilfred D'souza and Dr. Niharika Reddy

Cover render of Weave Sprint Paper IV, Neurology, Medicine and Recent Advances, generated from its title page

The forty study days

One day, one topic, one file

The papers above are these forty days compiled and illustrated. Take a single day when you want one topic, take the paper when you want the set.

Jump to the one you need, or read them all in order.

Paper I, Foundations of Psychiatry7 days · 984 pages · 40.0 MB

Paper II, Clinical Psychiatry12 days · 2,015 pages · 67.5 MB

Paper III, Speciality Psychiatry10 days · 2,276 pages · 57.7 MB

Paper IV, Neurology, Medicine and Recent Advances11 days · 2,156 pages · 54.4 MB

Rights and credits

Free, and meant to stay free

The Weave Sprint corpus is published free for education. There is no paywall, no subscription, no login and no email gate on any of it. Read it, download it, print it, and pass it to anyone sitting the same exam.

Rating scales and instruments reproduced inside these files are used for teaching, each under the terms its copyright holder sets. Where an instrument is free for non-commercial educational use with acknowledgement, that acknowledgement is printed beside the instrument inside the file. Where an instrument requires permission for any other use, obtaining that permission is the reader's own responsibility.

The Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire is reproduced free with acknowledgement, on the basis of the Australasian Therapeutic Communities Association public-domain statement and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism assessment guide. Its credit line is printed with the instrument inside the file.

Nothing hosted here is split, re-rendered or recompressed. The file you download is the file that was built, credit lines intact.

Compiled by Dr. Wilfred D'souza and Dr. Niharika Reddy for Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry.