This text provides medical students with a comprehensive guide to the management of common musculoskeletal conditions. Fully illustrated throughout in color and b&w medical images, photos, and anatomical drawings, the book offers an integrated approach to history taking and physical examination and covers relevant anatomy, highlighting the reasons for the different approaches within the specialties of orthopedics, trauma, and rheumatology. The first part of the book addresses the core topics relating to each discipline, with summary boxes outlining main points related to etiology, pathology, epidemiology, clinical features, investigations, management, and prognosis. The second part of the book presents 100 clinical cases to test problem-solving skills. Additional multiple-choice questions are available on a companion web site. Written primarily for medical students, the book is also useful for primary care physicians, nurse specialists, and other members of the multidisciplinary team dealing with musculoskeletal problems. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This is a textbook for medical students covering orthopaedics, trauma and rheumatology, offering both core information regarding what the student needs to know about these subject areas and an extensive series of cases with questions and answers that illustrate the thinking behind common everyday practice. The package also offers online access to the text and images, plus an additional 80 interactive MCQs and answers (on www.studentconsult.com).
- Provides a comprehensive overview of musculoskeletal medicine and surgery perfectly tailored for the busy medical student
- Illustrated in full colour throughout
- Succinct coverage of essential topics helps aid understanding whilst avoid unnecessary detail thus saving time
- Uniform style of chapters throughout allows readers to easily scan through for the information required
- Useful summary boxes outline the main points of each condition including aetiology, pathology, epidemiology, clinical features, investigations, management and prognosis
- 100 case histories with questions illustrate the range of clinical problems that students will encounter during their clinical placements
- Direct linking of cases to chapters so that readers can refer back to sections of core text whenever required, or look up cases relevant to a particular chapter
- Online access to the text and images, plus 80 interactive MCQs and answers, on www.studentconsult.com
