Essential Paediatrics and Child Health (Essentials) - Softcover

Rudolf, Mary; Luder, Anthony; Jeavons, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119420229 ISBN 13: 9781119420224

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020

Synopsis

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is a comprehensive and practical guide to paediatric disorders as they present to the student and practitioner, offering step-by-step guidance on symptom assessment, history taking, physical examination, investigation and diagnosis, management and treatment, patient education, follow-up and prognosis. With full-colour images and a range of unique and innovative learning features, this completely revised new edition of the award-winning book Paediatrics and Child Health will prove an invaluable resource for medical students and junior doctors on their journey through contemporary paediatrics.

• Organises paediatric disorders into system-based chapters for easy navigation, with symptom-based and integrative discussions of all the important diseases and disabilities in paediatrics
• Combines up-to-date descriptions of the latest in basic and clinical science with the core competencies expected of students in paediatric rotations
• Self-directed learning is made easy by means of navigation diagrams, tables, key-point and "at-a-glance" boxes, links to guidelines and other summary aids
• Sections on student experience, self-assessment, doing well in paediatric clinical placements and preparing for examinations and OSCEs
• Includes a completely new introduction with perspectives on the nature of paediatrics and how best to become engaged and immersed within it, and new content on communication, national guidelines, imaging techniques, genetics and epigenetics, prescribing for children toxicology, the latest advances in diagnosing and treating disease, and much more
• Provides a companion website containing physical examination instruction videos, a complete set of interactive patient scenarios and multiple-choice questions

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is the ideal companion for medical students and junior doctors to succeed in their studies and clinical practice.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Mary Rudolf is Head of the Department of Population Health, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel, and Visiting Professor of Child Health, University of Leeds, UK.

Professor Anthony Luder is Director of the Department of Paediatrics at Ziv Medical Centre and Special Projects Advisor, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel.

Dr Kerry Jeavons is Consultant in Paediatric Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Yorkshire, UK.

From the Back Cover

ESSENTIALS

The Essentials are an international, best-selling series of textbooks, all of which are designed to support lecture series or themes on core topics within the health sciences.

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is a comprehensive and practical guide to paediatric disorders as they present to the practitioner, offering step-by-step guidance on symptom assessment, history taking, physical examination, investigation and diagnosis, management and treatment, patient education, follow-up and prognosis. With full-colour images and a range of unique and innovative learning features, this completely revised new edition of the award-winning book Paediatrics and Child Health will prove an invaluable resource for medical students and junior doctors on their journey through contemporary paediatrics.

• Organises paediatric disorders into system-based chapters for easy navigation, with symptom-based and integrative discussions of all the important diseases and disabilities in paediatrics
• Combines up-to-date descriptions of the latest in basic and clinical science with the core competencies expected of students in paediatric rotations
• Self-directed learning is made easy by means of navigation diagrams, tables, key-point and "at-a-glance" boxes, links to guidelines and other summary aids
• Sections on student experience, self-assessment, doing well in paediatric clinical placements and preparing for examinations and OSCEs
• Includes a completely new introduction with perspectives on the nature of paediatrics and how best to become engaged and immersed within it, and new content on communication, national guidelines, imaging techniques, genetics and epigenetics, prescribing for children, toxicology, the latest advances in diagnosing and treating disease, and much more
• Includes free access to the enhanced VitalSource eBook version

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is the ideal companion for medical students and junior doctors to succeed in their studies and clinical practice.

A companion website at www.wiley.com/go/rudolf/paediatrics features multiple-choice questions, a complete set of interactive patient scenarios, illustrations from the book for download, and examination instruction videos.

For more information on the complete range of Wiley medical student and junior doctor publishing, please visit: www.wiley.com

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This title is also available as an e-book. For more details, please see www.wiley.com/buy/9781119420224

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From the Inside Flap

ESSENTIALS

The Essentials are an international, best-selling series of textbooks, all of which are designed to support lecture series or themes on core topics within the health sciences.

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is a comprehensive and practical guide to paediatric disorders as they present to the practitioner, offering step-by-step guidance on symptom assessment, history taking, physical examination, investigation and diagnosis, management and treatment, patient education, follow-up and prognosis. With full-colour images and a range of unique and innovative learning features, this completely revised new edition of the award-winning book Paediatrics and Child Health will prove an invaluable resource for medical students and junior doctors on their journey through contemporary paediatrics.

• Organises paediatric disorders into system-based chapters for easy navigation, with symptom-based and integrative discussions of all the important diseases and disabilities in paediatrics
• Combines up-to-date descriptions of the latest in basic and clinical science with the core competencies expected of students in paediatric rotations
• Self-directed learning is made easy by means of navigation diagrams, tables, key-point and "at-a-glance" boxes, links to guidelines and other summary aids
• Sections on student experience, self-assessment, doing well in paediatric clinical placements and preparing for examinations and OSCEs
• Includes a completely new introduction with perspectives on the nature of paediatrics and how best to become engaged and immersed within it, and new content on communication, national guidelines, imaging techniques, genetics and epigenetics, prescribing for children, toxicology, the latest advances in diagnosing and treating disease, and much more
• Includes free access to the enhanced VitalSource eBook version

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health is the ideal companion for medical students and junior doctors to succeed in their studies and clinical practice.

A companion website at www.wiley.com/go/rudolf/paediatrics features multiple-choice questions, a complete set of interactive patient scenarios, illustrations from the book for download, and examination instruction videos.

For more information on the complete range of Wiley medical student and junior doctor publishing, please visit: www.wiley.com

To receive automatic updates on Wiley books and journals, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email

This title is also available as an e-book. For more details, please see www.wiley.com/buy/9781119420224

All content reviewed by students for students

Wiley Medical Education books are designed exactly for their intended audience. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind.

If you would like to be one of our student reviewers, go to www.reviewmedicalbooks.com to find out more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1119420229
• ISBN 13: 9781119420224
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 536