This is a comprehensive textbook of surgery for the trainee studying for the postgraduate MRCS/FRCS qualifications. It has now established itself as a core text for this market, recommended on almost all reading lists, and is the only major text linked tothe Royal College of Surgeons distance learning course. It also serves as an excellent reference text for practising qualified general surgeons.Editors and contributors represent the best and brightest of British surgeonsFully updated text, structured closely around the MRCS/FRCS examinationsIs recommended for the STEP distance learning course, and is on the reading list of most of the independent MRCS/FRCS exam coursesHas been adopted as recommended reading by the RCS of EdinburghVery well illustrated and comprehensively referenced throughoutComprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery sectionThe editors have reduced some areas of the first edition that were not as relevant to the current examinations, and have added a section on orthopaedics.Around 100 new line illustrations have been drawn up to better illustrate key surgical proceduresAll chapters are revised and fully updated to include new techniques such as minimally invasive surgery and the recent advances in imagingA comprehensive Orthopaedic surgery section has been added, enabling the trainee to learn the required orthopaedics material for the examinations without purchasing a separate textbook
This is a comprehensive textbook of surgery for the trainee studying for the postgraduate MRCS/FRCS qualifications. It has now established itself as a core text for this market, recommended on almost all reading lists, and is the only major text linked tothe Royal College of Surgeons distance learning course. It also serves as an excellent reference text for practising qualified general surgeons.Editors and contributors represent the best and brightest of British surgeonsFully updated text, structured closely around the MRCS/FRCS examinationsIs recommended for the STEP distance learning course, and is on the reading list of most of the independent MRCS/FRCS exam coursesHas been adopted as recommended reading by the RCS of EdinburghVery well illustrated and comprehensively referenced throughoutComprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery sectionThe editors have reduced some areas of the first edition that were not as relevant to the current examinations, and have added a section on orthopaedics.Around 100 new line illustrations have been drawn up to better illustrate key surgical proceduresAll chapters are revised and fully updated to include new techniques such as minimally invasive surgery and the recent advances in imagingA comprehensive Orthopaedic surgery section has been added, enabling the trainee to learn the required orthopaedics material for the examinations without purchasing a separate textbook