Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd - Böcker

This book takes the readers step by step through the key skills and knowledge, to enable them to take control of their budget. It is helpful for the reader to learn how to find out the rules governing their budget, why budgets overspend and unders...

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This practical guide describes all the inter-related elements which make up clinical governance. The contributors highlight good practice and help readers to understand the context and to develop systems within their own organisation in order to a...

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Most doctors at some stage in their career need to give evidence, either as defendants, witnesses or medical experts. The authors, all experienced in different areas of medico-legal practice, explain the relationship between the doctor and the law...

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This book has an Introduction by Chris Silagy, Professor of Public Health, Monash University and Director, Monash Institute of Public Health and Health Services Research, Melbourne, Australia, and a Foreword by Iain Chalmers, Director, UK Cochrane...

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This book is a guide to appraising, recruiting and selecting consultants and junior doctors and focuses on the core skills required of doctors who are responsible for making these decisions. Based on extensive research involving over 600 medical i...

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Born in Germany and trained by Sir Morrell Mackenzie, Felix Sermon was a major figure in laryngology at the turn of the 20th century. He became a close friend of the Bismarck sons, was knighted by Queen Victoria, and was appointed Physician Extrao...

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Here at last is a realistic and practical book that shows how evidence-based practice can be successfully applied in a primary care setting. The first section provides an introduction to the principles of evidence-based health care as they apply t...

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Ever read up on a subject in a medical textbook, remembered it well immediately after, but several weeks later had great difficulty in recalling anything about it? Or, when treating a patient with an asthma attack, you wondered, 'Have I missed som...

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This guide on problem-based learning in medicine addresses: what it is and how it works; how it fits in with what we know about how adults learn; how to design problems and trigger material; how a tutorial group works; and how self-assessment, pee...

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This work tackles many of the issues facing the NHS from a relational perspective and focuses on what relational healthcare has to offer today's NHS. The findings are based on three years' research involving more than 50 per cent of the districts ...

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Written for postgraduates revising for exams in paediatrics and radiology, this study-aid covers a wide range of paediatric pathology, including the subject of imaging.

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This volume is an exploration of the field of orthopaedic surgery, briefly describing its origins in antiquity, illuminating the many changes and developments that took place in the 20th century and examining the trends towards fragmentation and s...

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The follow-up to Clinical Governance - Making it Happen considers the implications of clinical governance for a wide range of health care professionals including nurses, medical directors and chief executives. The contributors examine the role of ...

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This book is an essential purchase for all candidates sitting Part 1 of the PLAB exam administered by the UK General Medical Council. All doctors from non-EC countries who wish to practice in UK must sit the PLAB exam which comprises 200 Extended ...

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This work advises obstetricians and gynaecologists on how to minimize the risk of clinical negligence and also how to handle court cases and claims since they may have to give evidence as witnesses, medical experts of defendants at some stage duri...

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This book provides a clear, concise, management-orientated approach to atrial fibrillation. It also provides a useful and practical guide to the issues relating to this common cardiac problem, to improve the care and treatment of these patients.

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The In Practice series presents clearcut and accessible opinion-leader advice and summary facts relevant to everyday clinical practice. This guide takes account of recent and substantial advances in the management of clinical hypertension.

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The In Practice series is aimed at hospital doctors and general practitioners. Each title focuses upon an important area of medical practice, and provides an overview of the relevant clinical background, followed by clinical assessments and treatm...

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Essential reading for anyone working in general practice or involved in improving the quality of general practice, this practical book demonstrates how a set of clinical quality indicators can be usefully employed in the management of the most com...

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This work contains 400 multiple choice questions with answers for Part 1 of the Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH).

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Lavishly illustrated and beautifully presented 53 colour illustrations of art Marvel at the A4 size pictures in a hardback volume Read the stories behind them Alan and Marcia Emery present a superb collection of over fifty pieces of art, reflectin...

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A happy and fulfilled retirement in today's world requires a certain amount of conscious consideration and planning. A demanding professional life may have dominated some aspects of family life and have come between friendships, certain pleasures ...

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This book is for part 2 of the PLAB exam, and goes alongside the highly successful PLAB: 1000 Extended Matching Questions, for PLAB part 1, by the same author. The book presents 100 OSCEs and covers the main skills tested in the OSCE examination -...

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The Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaceologists (DRCOG) examination consists of 60 multiple choice questions (MCQs) and 22 six minute structured clinical examination stations (OSCEs), of which two are rest stations. This one d...

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With the growth of telecommunication networks and the development of digital imaging technologies, telemedicine is helping to provide patients all over the world with access to specialist healthcare professionals, no matter how isolated their surr...

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A comprehensive update of key topics in surgery for those preparing for postgraduate surgical exams, as well as practising surgeons seeking an update in their own and related specialties. Topics range across surgery in general, and each of the maj...

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Eponyms are found throughout medicine. They provide succinct and convenient identification for diseases, syndromes, clinical signs, surgical instruments and operations. Anaesthetists use eponyms such as Magill forceps, Mallampati score, Sellick's ...

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The In Practice series has been devised by the Royal Society of Medicine Press to present clearcut and accessible opinion-leader advice and summary facts relevant to everyday clinical practice in both primary and secondary care. This particular vo...

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Approximately 25 billion women become menopausal every year. An increasing number of hormonal preparations for the management of menopausal symptoms are available yearly. Based on the latest evidence, this book reviews hormonal and non-hormonal tr...

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Stroke and TIAs are often neglected illnesses. They are a major cause of death and disability, and must be treated as an emergency. Managing Strokes and TIAs in Practice is a practical guide for the busy clinician, particularly important in the tr...

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