Medical study and revision guides and reference material

The NHS pension scheme is the largest in Europe.

Primary Care Trusts are a flagship initiative of government policy for modernising the NHS.

Widespread recognition of the benefits of minimally invasive procedures in surgery and medicine is resulting in the rapid development of new advances and new techniques in every speciality.

This book explores, with great insight, the multiple lessons of living and dying.

Coaching for Effective Learning adopts a practical, how-to-do-it approach based on the real-life training experience of the authors.

Theory of illness causation is an important issue in all biomedical sciences, and solid etiological explanations are needed in order to develop therapeutic approaches in medicine and preventive interventions in public health.

The publications game can seem tricky: knowing where to start, how to plan and draft a paper, who to pitch it to and how to present it can appear difficult enough.

At some point in their careers, many health professionals and students wish to engage in overseas work.

Getting published is crucial for success in biomedicine.

Containing papers carefully compiled for both their historical importance and contemporary relevance, Family Medicine: The Classic Papers brings together a team of experts, led by global family medicine leaders Michael Kidd, Iona Heath and Amanda Howe, who explain the importance of each selected paper and how it contributes to international health care, current practice and research.

There has been an exponential increase in the amount of information available on the pathophysiology and management of heart diseases.

This book will be of tremendous use to all healthcare professionals from physicians to nurses to social workers, rehabilitation therapists, and chaplains.

The availability of human genome, large amount of data on individual genetic variations, environmental interactions, influence of lifestyle, and cutting-edge tools and technologies for big-data analysis have led to the era of clinical practice of "e;Precision Medicine"e;.

This is the first BMAT theory and practice book on the market, providing not only practice questions but breaking down the BMAT exam step-by-step.

While the investigations and reports which have followed recent health care scandals in the UK have highlighted the very important issue of addressing organizational culture and the need for more effective leadership at every level, patients and their families have struggled to comprehend how such things can occur in a health service that is suppos

This innovative book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis and rein in ever-growing expenditure.

Since the first suffering supplicant offered a prayer to his god or the first mother cradled an ailing child in her caring arms, we have witnessed how human health and healing go beyond any inventory of parts and infusion of chemicals.

The imperative to "e;publish and not perish"e; has never been more compelling.

Imaging informatics is a complex and historically rapidly changing field, knowledge of which is central to the practice of all imaging specialists.

Imaging informatics is a complex and historically rapidly changing field, knowledge of which is central to the practice of all imaging specialists.

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination or OSCE for short is a familiar and often daunting experience for medical students.

This third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT.

In his highly regarded blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, John Halamka records his experiences with health IT leadership, infrastructure, applications, policies, management, governance, and standardization of data.

This concise illustrated volume presents a pictorial guide to human anatomy through the meticulous dissections of Bari Logan, assembled during his long career as a distinguished prosector, and representing an unrivalled collection of superb photographic images.

This concise illustrated volume presents a pictorial guide to human anatomy through the meticulous dissections of Bari Logan, assembled during his long career as a distinguished prosector, and representing an unrivalled collection of superb photographic images.

Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology: An Evolutionary and Developmental Guide for Medical Students provides medical students with a much easier and more comprehensive way to learn and understand human gross anatomy by combining state-of-the-art knowledge about human anatomy, evolution, development, and pathology in one book.

This book presents over 350 ranking and multiple-choice questions, arranged by subject groups aligned with the domains of the SJT examination, and designed specifically to explore the readiness of candidates to face the scenarios that they will encounter as a junior doctor.

This fascinating guide to medical education introduces the reader to the historical development of this important subject through 100 powerful images from the prestigious Wellcome Library Collection that highlight key figures in the field and innovations that have taken place, not just in the recent past but over the centuries.

This fascinating book presents 100 biographies of general practitioners, the majority of whom have made key contributions to the development of general practice and medicine, but also some who have influenced society through engineering, literature, music, politics, sport and other fields.

Many experts now consider genetic evaluation to be pivotal for the optimal diagnosis, classification, risk stratification, and therapeutic decision-making for persons diagnosed with blood cancer.

Many experts now consider genetic evaluation to be pivotal for the optimal diagnosis, classification, risk stratification, and therapeutic decision-making for persons diagnosed with blood cancer.

Good intentions to do our best in healthcare are not enough.

This practical and portable guide has been designed specifically to help academics and students in medicine and surgery departments at universities all over the world, who are required to write in English to maximize exposure to their research, produce professional and accurate academic English and eradicate the errors that occur at all levels from bad habits or gaps in knowledge.

Treating disease can be considered a combat between curative therapies and pathological afflictions.

Surgeons start their career in the expectation that it will bring personal satisfaction through an unparalleled sense of achievement and professional growth.

This book serves as a quick study guide during the stages of examination preparation for the pediatric pathology boards.

This book provides a career framework to help consultants build, grow, and transform their consulting businesses by becoming brilliant at the basics.

First published in 1845, this directory has established an enviable reputation for the quantity and extent of its information on UK-registered medical practitioners.

It is not uncommon for practicing physicians to have more than a dozen separate insurance policies to protect their medical practice and personal assets.

Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, leading to several stereotyped models of horror that have prevailed through decades.

An invaluable study guide for doctors preparing for the forensic psychiatry board exam or for those seeking recertification, this book is a concise and practical aid for mastering forensics, making key principles easy to understand and memorize.

This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches.

In the medical treatment of children and teenagers and the accompaniment of their parents, alternative therapies, homoeopathy, anthroposophic medicine, psychology and psychosomatics play an ever greater role alongside conventional, science-based medicine.

The intentions of this manual are to familiarize beginners with the process of bone marrow evaluation, to provide a succinct preparatory review of bone marrow pathology for the pathology and clinical hematology board examinations, to remediate practitioners whose knowledge of this field is not current, and to strengthen the skills of clinicians who

The history of this text started years ago after reading Wittgenstein'sTratactus Logico-Philosophicus.

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine.

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine.

Direct Pay: A Simpler Way to Practice Medicine examines the direct pay business model as a policy alternative and potential policy solution to the economic, technological, and sociocultural problems that have emerged for practicing physicians as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Cataract ranks high among the diseases that cause visual disability and blindness in the world.