Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton Physiology) - Softcover

Hall PhD, John E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145577006X ISBN 13: 9781455770069

Publisher: Saunders, 2015

Synopsis

All of the essential information you need from the world's foremost medical physiology textbook - right in your pocket! Dr. John E. Hall's Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 13th Edition, reflects the structure and content of the larger text, helping you recall and easily review the most essential, need-to-know concepts in physiology.

• Efficiently review key concepts thanks to a concise, at-a-glance format.
• Carry the same authoritative, useful knowledge that readers of Guyton have come to trust - right in your pocket.
• Easily locate more in-depth discussions inside the parent text with abundant cross-references and a parallel chapter organization.

• New science from the 13th edition of the text keeps you up to date.
• eBook version included! For the first time, you can access the entire book online or offline across all devices with the Student Consult eBook!

Delivers the salient points from the parent text in a manner that is ideal for rapid comprehension of the core concepts in Physiology

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Review

"Although the pocket companion is designed to be used as a brief overview/review in this manner, it functions well on its own and can be useful to all biomedical students. Its special value is that the brief overviews cover the same breadth of topics that the main textbook does.This allows students to not only review the key points of more detailed processes they've already learned, but also quickly become informed about topics they've yet to study." Reviewed by David R. Bell, PhD (Indiana University School of Medicine-Fort Wayne) for Doody's Review Service

My medical physiology course is extremely intense and there is no time to read all of the assigned reading in the textbook. Thanks to this pocket version of the text I am able to review chapters in half the time. I also recommend the textbook which provides detail description of figures that may not be covered in the pocket companion.

Pretty good text and a must for serious advanced physiology students who are headed toward medical or advanced nursing/PA degrees. It helps to simplify and consolidate the immense amount of minute and detailed info stocked up in the big text.

I wish many other books with complex topics had a pocket companion comparable to this one. If the topic is important to your success, then having the pocket companion is indispensable. I see the pocket companion as the architect's view (high level design) of physiology and the first step to learning. Depending on interest and time, you can selectively drill down into the textbook to explain topics of greater importance to you. If a particular topic is not that important you can just read the companion. I have already swept through many chapters and when I hit a chapter I wanted to understand in more detail, such as sports physiology, I went off and read the entire textbook chapter. When other chapters have more detail then I need I stick with the companion. Count yourself lucky to have this pocket companion as a first "cut" to the knowledge in the textbook, it will help immensely during the absorption and after for the quick and convenient recall.

I have been using this book, along with the 'Big Daddy' version for preparation for my surgical primary exams. In summary, it's gold. No, it won't tell you everything that the big book does, and certainly not as much detail as thicker texts like Ganong, but I think that is the real benefit of it. ALL IT HAS IS THE BASIC FACTS, and that is all you need to grasp the concepts and therefore answer most questions. If you are looking for a high distinction on your exams, then take a month off work and read Ganong. If you have less than a week and are trying just to pass, then 'Baby Guyton' is gold. Five stars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 145577006X
• ISBN 13: 9781455770069
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 720