Product Description

Written for the busy orthopaedics resident who needs to review for an exam or prepare for a challenging clinical case, Core Knowledge in Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle offers cutting edge clinical and surgical pearls in a bulleted and templated format.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192654 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Great FRCS (TR & Orth) Revision books
I bought this book along with all the others in the series (bar the trauma one) and consider it £300 well spent. They are well written, up to date, and easy to read. They definitely cover all you need to know, and I think they will take a lot of the pain out of the revision needed for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam. I still will use the Stanmore Basic science guide and Miller, but these books bring you up to speed quite nicely and allow you to read around the subject and actually understand it, rather than just mugging up for exam puposes.

Orthopaedics
This book provides a comprehensive collection of information ranging from anatomy & biomechanics to amputations & orthoses. There are many MRI, radiographical images and photos supported by bullet pointed text. Unfortunately I felt there was no real flow to the book and reading proved difficult. Prominence is allocated, as the title depicts, to specialities within orthopaedic surgery divided into 29 chapters including tables, summaries, differential diagnosis and treatment plans with outcome measures & percentages of success. The strong emphasis on surgery made it complicated in some areas for an undergraduate, yet interesting, but it was the lack of flow and persistent bullet points that I found let it down.

Excellent
Having just passed the frcs orth, i wished that i had read this book prior to the exam, it is excellent. Every bit as good as the OKU series if not a little better as they are cheaper and hardbacks, good range of subject material wriiten by leaders in their field (Mostly North American, these people do however need to learn that there are some very good surgeons in the Uk and Europe!)
if the rest of the series is as good i shall be buying them, and would strongly suggest that pre-exam trainees either buy them as they will definitely get more use than Campbells.