About Book
The Crash Course sequence was once first posted in 1997 and now, sixteen years on, we are nonetheless going strong. Medicine by no means stands still, and the work of maintaining this sequence applicable for today’s college students is an ongoing process.
These fourth variations construct on the success of the preceding titles and include new and revised fabric to maintain the collection up to date with modern-day suggestions for first-rate exercise and current trends in scientific lookup and pharmacology.
We usually hear to comments from our readers, thru focal point companies and scholar opinions of the Crash Course titles. For the fourth editions, we have totally rewritten our self-assessment cloth to maintain up with today’s ‘single-best answer’ and ‘extended matching question’ formats. The art work and plan of the
titles have additionally been generally remodeled to make the textual content less difficult on the eye in the course of lengthy periods of revision.
Despite absolutely revising the books with every edition, we keep quick to the ideas on which we first developed the series. Crash Course will continually carry you all the records you want to revise in compact, manageable volumes that combine simple clinical science and scientific practice.
The books nonetheless preserve the stability between readability and conciseness, and grant ample depth for these aiming at distinction. The authors are scientific college students and junior medical doctors who have latest journey of the assessments you are now facing, and the accuracy of the cloth is checked through a crew of college advisors from throughout the UK.
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to open this modern-day version; we are very proud of this e book and we in reality hope you will locate it as really useful and ordinary as we set out to make it.
Our goal was once to add to the strengths of the preceding version however additionally to replace the text to replicate altering scientific faculty syllabuses and evaluation styles.
We have as soon as once more revamped the layout, splitting the textual content into three sections following a ‘bench to bedside’ method to respiratory medicine.
Whilst every theme is reachable as a standalone resource, taken collectively we have tried to furnish a coherent experience from primary science to scientific evaluation of a affected person and ultimately respiratory pathology.
Cross referencing pointers between sections and additionally up to date tips will allow you rapidly to hyperlink applicable elements of science and medical remedy in an evidence-based manner. Lastly, you will locate a vary of more than one preference questions of the SBA and EMQ layout in area of preceding brief reply and essay primarily based assessments.
We strongly sense this e book has a broad scope of application, whether or not you are revising for fundamental science exams, or are on the wards searching for scientific facts with a pathophysiological focus, there is some thing for you. We hope you discover this version precious in each learn about and working lifestyles and want you all the quality for your assessments!
Crash Course is a special series. The authors themselves have simply performed their closing yr checks and are getting ready for their first postgraduate assessments and so, have a heightened know-how and are skilled with the contemporary necessities of the ever altering clinical curriculum.
Sarah, Rachel and James have delivered their very own imaginative and prescient to this edition, focusing firmly on integrating primary science with scientific exercise to make Respiratory Medicine an necessary and exciting read. This version has updated scientific recommendations and is considerably go referenced, reinforcing the complementary records in the one-of-a-kind chapters.
It has been a pleasure to work with the authors, whose momentum in retaining targeted on this e book used to be admirable, specifically in their first basis 12 months and particularly after task stretches of night’s on-call, in order to maintain to our deadlines!
