Full Description
Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with "on the go". Their highly affordable price puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.
Common investigations (ECG, imaging)
Clinical skills (patient examination)
Clinical specialties that students perceive as too small to merit a textbook (psychiatry, renal medicine)
Key points
Breaks down a subject that students and trainees find confusing due to the number of differentials that mimic each other
Logical, sequential content: relevant basic science, clinical essentials and diagnostic pathways; then chapters devoted to individual disease groups within dermatology, including perinatal and paediatric
Descriptions of common disorders are enhanced by Clinical Scenarios (Patient presents with...), which help students and trainees to recognise and manage common presenting problems
Contents
Ch 01 First principles
Ch 02 Dermatology nursing
Ch 03 Clinical essentials
Ch 04 Diagnostic pathways
Ch 05 Skin tumours
Ch 06 Photodermatology
Ch 07 Allergy
Ch 08 Drug reactions
Ch 09 Inflammatory diseases
Ch 10 Infectious diseases
Ch 11 Systemic diseases
Ch 12 Genitals
Ch 13 Hair and nails
Ch 14 Paediatric dermatology
Ch 15 Perinatal diseases
Ch 16 Psychiatric diseases
Ch 17 Dermatologic emergencies
Ch 18 Dermatologic surgery
