Core Pathology: with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access - Softcover

Stevens MBBS FRCPath, Alan; Lowe BMedSci BMBS DM FRCPath, James S.; Scott BSC(Hons) MBBS MD DPhil FRCPath, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0723434441 ISBN 13: 9780723434443

Publisher: Mosby Ltd., 2008

Synopsis

British Medical Association Book Awards 2009 - Highly Commended, Basic and Clinical Sciences

The new edition of this text helps you make the most of your study time by focusing on only the core basics of pathology needed for course work or exams...while avoiding in-depth details. Nearly 800 full-color, generously sized clear illustrations help bring the subject to life and aid in memorization. User-friendly features―including clinical correlation and differential diagnosis boxes―help make the material more relevant, while an increased emphasis on clinical medicine and a new self-assessment section prepare you for real-life practice. Online access to Student Consult―where you’ll find tools including a virtual microscope feature and USMLE-style questions―further enhances your study and exponentially boosts your reference power.

• Focuses on only the core pathology that you need to know so you can make the most of your time in the classroom, and of your study time in preparing for exams.
• Presents nearly 800 full-color, generously sized illustrations that help you visualize pathologic processes and enhance memorization.
• Includes a self-assessment section that helps to prepare you for real-life practice.
• Uses clinical correlation boxes to help you apply basic pathology principles to real-life medicine.
• Features advanced concept boxes that enable you to review separate summaries of higher-level information without taking away from your study of the basics.

• Provides differential diagnosis boxes that help you link symptoms and signs to diseases and back to basic pathology principles
  
• Features access to Student Consult at www.studentconsult.com, where you'll find the complete text and illustrations of the book online, fully searchable • a virtual microscope feature that enables you to see the microscopic pathological images you are likely to view in the lab • USMLE-style questions • animations • "Integration Links" to bonus content in other Student Consult titles • and much more
  
• Offers Evolve website access for instructors where they will find more images and an additional 20 “key lectures”

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Ivan Damjanov is a pathologist in Kansas City, Kansas and is affiliated with University of Kansas Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Zagreb Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He is one of 19 doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital who specialize in Pathology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby Ltd.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0723434441
• ISBN 13: 9780723434443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 648
• Editor: Damjanov MD PhD Ivan