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Sorry man, never read it. Will reccomend NMS surgery and compliment it with Kaplan Lecture Notes on Surgery, killer combo!!!!!
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General Surgery (Board Review Series)
by Crabtree
Pub. Date: 2000
Doody's Star Review: * (1 out of 5)
Reviewer: Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD (University of Michigan Medical School)
Description: This review of surgery for medical students and residents is designed to help the readers pass the USMLE Step II. The book is written almost entirely by residents currently in training in general surgical programs at the University of Virginia and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
Purpose: The editor proposes to cover background principles of surgery and major topics in general surgery to enable the reader to pass the USMLE Step II. He focuses upon the major aspects of disease processes. As a result, the text is presented as a series of newspaper headlines with the first portion of the topical sentence highlighted followed by the answer in lower case printing. Two examples are illustrative: "Some large bowel anastomic leaks are well localized" and "Splenic trauma is the primary indication for splenectomy." There is very little informational content. There are two likely reasons for this deficiency. First, the headline style of writing does not permit the inclusion of any informative detail. Second, the contributors, almost all residents at various levels of training, cannot be expected to have mastery of surgical literature or mature judgment.
Audience: The primary audience of this book is students and residents preparing for examinations. They are prepared not by rich, detailed surgical information, but by a series of mnemonic aids.
Features: A broad range of clinical topics relevant to the practice of general surgery is covered, with a major focus on gastrointestinal diseases. Associated topics such as wound healing, immunology and transplantation, and surgical infections are also covered. A useful feature is a series of case presentations which serve as miniature review tests at the end of each chapter. These help to provide detail and cohesion. It is regrettable that the remainder of the book was not written in this format.
Assessment: There are a number of board preparation and review books available in the market today. Several are keyed to larger textbooks of surgery to permit the reader to investigate topics more deeply. Most of the established texts provide a greater depth of information with their illustrative material. This text is not a strong entry into an already crowded field of medical publishing.
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