Education & Training

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness,...

This important book offers an introduction to the theory and the varying types of assessment for health care professionals. The book includes information on such topics as Where have work based assessments come from?; Why do we have different parts to...

The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents, and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident's life - from choosing a residency program, to...

Not Just Any Medical School details the establishment of the University of Michigan Medical School. It provides a picture of its students, curriculum, amphitheaters, laboratories, hospitals, and patients as seen through the eyes of its leading faculty...

U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?The biographical essays...

This book is for all those who teach general practice to medical students, both those based in academic departments and `service' general practitioners. It aims to combine the theoretical basis for teaching with practical material, and explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587296970Author Delese WearFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 334g

We all have a good idea of how we want things to go when we visit a physician. We expect to be able to explain why we are there, and we hope the physician will listen and possibly ask questions that help us clarify our thoughts. Most of us hope that the...

Public health efforts have resulted in tremendous improvements in the health of individuals and communities. The foundation for effective public health interventions rests, in large part, on a well-trained workforce. Unfortunately there is a major...

The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care)...

The new edition of this infertility manual has been fully revised to provide clinicians with the latest advances in the diagnosis and management of infertility. Divided into seven sections, the book provides step by step guidance on each stage of the...

This book introduces the structure of chromosomes and their abnormalities. In this third edition a brief history of genetics and classification of chromosomes have been added. In the chapter on chromosomal abnormalities, an attempt has been made to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDM Vasudevan MBBS MD FAMS FRCPath Associate Director, Department of Research, and Head, PG Programs, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorVP Varshney MBBS MD Professor of Excellence, Department of Physiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India Mona Bedi MBBS MDBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorN Geetha MBBS MD (Physiology)Book InformationISBN 9789354658921Author N GeethaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1064Imprint Jaypee Brothers Medical PublishersPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSheela Grace Jeevamani MBBS MS (Anatomy) Formerly, Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore,...

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on 'de-familiarising' old habits and bringing poetic...

This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical...

Weight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKanchan Kapoor PhD MNAMSBook InformationISBN 9789354655050Author Kanchan KapoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Jaypee Brothers Medical PublishersPublisher...

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine - that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education - outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language...

Medical education has grown expeditiously in the last decade, triggered by innovations in educational approaches, such as problem-based learning (PBL) and community-based education (CBE). This had led to medical schools establishing departments for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423202707Author BarCharts, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncDimensions(mm) 190mm * 5mm * 107mm

An American Transplant: The Rockefeller Foundation and Peking Union Medical College reflects on the impact of Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in China, tracing the evolution of American medical philanthropy through the Rockefeller Foundation's...

Written by PAs for PAs, Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants, 2nd Edition, is the first and only orthopaedics text specifically designed for physician assistant practitioners and students. This comprehensive yet portable guide helps you master the...

Biology is central to our understanding of health and disease and to the development of effective treatments, and thus it is critical that health professionals have a solid grounding and knowledge comfort in the pathogenesis and mechanisms of disease...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPushpalatha K MBBS MD (PhD) Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara (JSS) Medical College, Mysuru, Karnataka, India Deepa...

This book documents the journey of the Mental Health-General Practitioner (MH-GP) Partnership Programme at the Singapore Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since 2003 and how it has developed over the years as a model of successful tertiary-primary care...

A trailblazer in American medical education since 1850, the Medical School at the University of Michigan was the first program in the United States to own and operate its own hospital and the earliest major medical school to admit women. In the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMangala Kohli MBBS MS MIMSA FIMSA Reeha Mahajan MBBS MDBook InformationISBN 9789354653285Author Mangala KohliFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Jaypee...

One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the...

Now in its revised, updated Second Edition, this pocket-sized handbook is a practical quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of neurologic diseases. It presents specific management recommendations in a succinct outline format and includes...

With contributions from an esteemed otolaryngologist, talented photographer, and multidisciplinary specialists, Mastering Medical Photography of the Head and Neck demystifies the process of medical photography. The succinct text and high quality images...

For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of...

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book,...

Teaching Health Humanities expands our understanding of the burgeoning field of health humanities and of what it aspires to be. The volume's contributors describe their different degree programs, the politics and perspectives that inform their teaching,...

The Wills Eye Institute 5-Minute Ophthalmology Consult provides a readily accessible and focused compendium of ophthalmic abnormalities that will be useful for students, physicians and ancillary medical staff. Evidence-based references are included and...

Personal essays relating key issues and insights from women in medicine What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine brings together a collection of short essays from women physicians working in diverse fields of medicine around the world. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702375Author Henry AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

This pocket atlas is an excellent reference work that presents pathologic findings in all clinically relevant fields, using high-quality photographs and concise, well-structured explanatory texts. Images include color photos and micrographs. Electron...