Product Description

This pocket revision guide will be a must for all medical students preparing for a major exam in clinical medicine or needing a rapid reminder during a clinical attachment.

Rapid Medicine is the first of a brand new series of short books, covering key facts in a simple and memorable fashion, using a mnemonic to aid recall. It covers over 200 common medical conditions that students will encounter on the wards, in clinics and in their exams. It acts as a rapid refresher, and is intended to be a concise no–nonsense book covering just the basic relevant facts. Arranged in A–Z format, each topic will be covered using the same headings – Definition, Aetiology, Associations/Risk Factors, Epidemiology, History, Examination, Pathology, Investigations, Management, Complications, Prognosis and Differential Diagnosis.

Rapid Medicine is authored by a team of students and junior doctors from Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. Professor Roy Pounder, Professor of Gastroenterology at the Royal Free, and Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians, is the Editorial Advisor and specialist consultants have reviewed all sections.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46874 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Review
Published Reviews of the 1st Edition

"This book hasn′t got any pretty pictures, but it is great for some of those last minute cramming sessions where you just need the basics all on one page."

5th Year Medical Student, Liverpool Medical School
Sphincter, December 2003

"The contributors to this little pocket reference book are to be saluted for taking on what seems like an impossible task and doing a very good job.

.I liked how the authors boiled down the essential facts to the bare bones on physical exam, work–up, and clinical presentation. Each segment is represented by only a few sentences. Not an easy task with so much information to not include.

.This is a very handy pocket reference.I think it is a good study guide in presenting the important basics one must know in internal medicine."

Patricia Wong, MD (Stanford University Medical Center)

"Rapid medicine has it all and the format of the book facilitates "smart study" not hard study. Facts are covered in a simple and memorable fashion. In this respect it is also ideal for exam study."

New Doctor, Auckland University Medical Students

"This book is a comprehensive and concise review of the spectrum of medical conditions that clinicians will come across. Invaluable for consultation on the wards, in A&E. And a fantastic revision tool. Can′t be recommended highly enough."

Medical Student

"It is actually a remarkably useful book...The book is best used either as an aide memoir for conditions about which you have already learned, or as a rapid learning process about a condition you feel your consultant is going to grill you on very shortly."

Medical Student, Guy′s, King′s, St. Thomas′ Medical School
GKT, February 2004

"′Rapid Medicine′ is laid out very clearly...And the content for each condition is very good."

Oxford Medical School Gazette, vol. 54 (1)

"This layout enables you to flick through and find the condition you want quickly and easily."

North Wing, Sheffield Medics Magazine, Winter 2004

From the Back Cover
This pocket revision guide will be a must for all medical students preparing for a major exam in clinical medicine or needing a rapid reminder during a clinical attachment.

Rapid Medicine is the first of a brand new series of short books, covering key facts in a simple and memorable fashion, using a mnemonic to aid recall. It covers over 200 common medical conditions that students will encounter on the wards, in clinics and in their exams. It acts as a rapid refresher, and is intended to be a concise no–nonsense book covering just the basic relevant facts. Arranged in A–Z format, each topic will be covered using the same headings – Definition, Aetiology, Associations/Risk Factors, Epidemiology, History, Examination, Pathology, Investigations, Management, Complications, Prognosis and Differential Diagnosis.

Rapid Medicine is authored by a team of students and junior doctors from Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. Professor Roy Pounder, Professor of Gastroenterology at the Royal Free, and Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians, is the Editorial Advisor and specialist consultants have reviewed all sections.

Customer Reviews

An excellent quick reference guide
Contains all you need to know about the causes, risk factors, symptoms and signs, pathology, investigations and management of common as well as some rarer medical conditions. An excellent A-Z guide for all clinical medical students for quick reference and for learning key facts for those clinical exams. Worth the money.

Great little book
This book is a great summary of all things medical you will need to know.
Lacks in the pathophysiology but obviously you'll get that from a proper textbook and just use this as a refresher, quick reference or exam cramming.
Particularly good for listing risk factors, epidemiology, investigations and the basics for everything you need to know about most medical cases.
Well worth the money, easier to read the Oxford Clinical Handbook but does not explain in as much depth.

Not a bad book, but there is certainly better out there.
This book covers most of the basics and I think is intended as as pocket book. The layout is very good and because of the mnemonic system I found a few facts in there which I didn't elsewhere.

However if you're looking for either a more comprehensive little book, or a memory aid then I recommend the oxford handbook of clinical medicine or a mnemonic book.