Product Description

Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics 2/e covers the core curriculum for undergraduate teaching of clinical paediatrics. The second edition retains the innovative, full-colour design of the first, incorporating numerous colour photographs, diagrams, illustrated case histories and clinical hints & tips highlighted by a 'smiley face' icon. The writing style is succinct, with bullet-point lists used to facilitate reading and learning, and the content is pared down to cover what students really need to know and no more. There is one new chapter on The Child in Society covering general issues in child health in developed and developing countries. All the system-based chapters have been thoroughly revised and coverage of ethics, evidence-based medicine and developmental paediatrics has been expanded.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60232 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

Synopsis
"Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics 2/e" covers the core curriculum for undergraduate teaching of clinical paediatrics. The second edition retains the innovative, full-colour design of the first, incorporating numerous colour photographs, diagrams, illustrated case histories and clinical hints tips highlighted by a 'smiley face' icon. The writing style is succinct, with bullet-point lists used to facilitate reading and learning, and the content is pared down to cover what students really need to know and no more. There is one new chapter on The Child in Society covering general issues in child health in developed and developing countries. All the system-based chapters have been thoroughly revised and coverage of ethics, evidence-based medicine and developmental paediatrics has been expanded.

About the Author
Tom Lissauer is a Consultant Paediatrician specialising in neonatal medicine at St. Mary's Hospital, a busy teaching hospital in the heart of London. His special interest is medical education. He is extensively involved in the development of undergraduate and postgraduate examinations, both in the UK and elsewhere. He has written several books on paediatrics and a Children's Guide to the Human Body.

Graham Clayden is Reader in Paediatrics at Guy's, Kings and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London, now, the largest medical school in Europe. He is actively involved in the definition and assessment of the core paediatric curriculum in the UK, which aims to define the knowledge and skills required by undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.

Customer Reviews

WARNING: DO NOT BUY THIS "BOOK"!
"This writing style is accessible and succint"-a blatent lie on the back cover. This book is about as accessible as Mars and as succint as the whole Britannica encyclopedia collection in Latin.
There is no consistency to the format. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you may learn something as this book is more likely to confuse you of the knowledge you already may have. Half of the management sections are missing or hidden in the depths of unnecessary "illustrations and figures". By the way, writing big blocks of prose in a coloured box does not make it an illustration. When you do find management sections they say things like..."use anti-staphylococcal drugs to treat staphylococcal infections". Useful.
The index is appalling and should really direct to another book if it was gonna be of any help.
I personally would like an apology from the authors for wasting my time and money.
p.s. why is there a 2nd year medical student commenting on this book on the back cover. That is a clue to the fact that they couldn't get enough clinical medical students to praise this useless text

Style over substance
I'm afraid that this book is what a medical text ought not to be. With such a vast subject area it is important that the salient points are of course condensed.However, many important paediatric topics are condensed so wholly in this book that it often reads like a syllabus, leaving teh reader hungry (starving!) for something more gritty. Even the illustrations, which for me seem there to hide the books inadequacies, are often uneccesarily grand given the very simplistic information they contain. It is such a shame that a text meant to educate doctors of the future in this exciting speciality has the effect of frustrating and confusing many of its readers. Do note swallow the rumours (as I did), look elsewhere.

Not as good as you think!
I got this book because many of my fellow students suggested that 'it's all you need', please don't let the hype fool you! I'm currently on my paediatrics rotation and I have been using this text to help me with my hospital and PBL work. The book is colourful and attractive but lacks detailed information. It is certainly a good revision aid however it is not a good foundation for someone who knows nothing about Paediatrics as I do.

The text is too concise and I feel that many of the illustrations are superfluous to the text. If you want a textbook that skims over a topic and good for use for PBL then this is your book. Personally, I would have like some more background information on the different topics covered and I shall be looking for another Paediatric textbook with more substance.