his book is a one-volume core revision text covering general surgery and the minor surgical specialties, designed to stimulate the student into assessing his/her own knowledge during self-directed learning and exam preparation. The book assumes the student has had some teaching in surgery and has acquired some basic core knowledge. The book promotes self-directed learning with motivation coming from self- identification of strengths and weaknesses leading to an assessment of needs.
The structure of the book is as follows:
division into the main sections: general surgery, urology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, plastic surgery and neurosurgery a core text examining the main surgical diseases in a synoptic text a self-assessment section at the end allowing the student to assess the progress in the application of the facts to common clinical problems.
Features
FEATURES concise synoptic ( not telegraphic text) appropriate self-assessment material only covers core, so student knows the whole book is essential includes key objectives in learning surgery contains simple and memorable diagrams for reproduction in exams idea for learning as well as examination review, specifically trying to stimulate the student into assessing his/her own knowledge the book compliments other available texts such as Essential Surgery , rather than duplicating its material, in particular, its approach and style provides examination practice coverage of core gives student security in knowing what to learn part of co-ordinated series
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