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BASICS
Title: Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders: Creating Orthopaedic Reports
Author(s):  Stedman's
ISBN: 978-0-7817-7435-2
Price: $64.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders: Creating Orthopaedic Reports is the best new resource for medical transcription education. A brand-new addition to the Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders series, Creating Orthopaedic Reports delivers the tools needed to master the terminology, gain valuable transcription experience, and learn editing and proofreading skills, all of which are required to succeed in the challenging field of orthopaedics.

Features include:

  • Thorough coverage of the terminology encountered in orthopaedics transcription, complete with easy-to-understand definitions and descriptive illustrations. Terms are cross-referenced with sample orthopaedic reports to reinforce the learning process by showing terms in context.
  • Audio dictation files encompassing a variety of orthopaedic topics, many different dictators, and multiple accents and dictating styles, each intended to challenge and build transcription skills. Corresponding answer keys identify common errors and provide immediate remediation.
  • Fifty proofreading and editing exercises to help build the quality assurance skills needed when working with hospitals and clinics. Answer keys contain targeted feedback and reference the appropriate source for grammar, style, and usage rules.
  • Appendices covering slang terms commonly encountered in orthopaedics, useful Web sites, standard proofreader's marks, report and term indices, and additional grammar and style tools.

Plus, a BONUS CD-ROM!

Each copy of Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders: Creating Orthopaedic Reports contains a CD-ROM loaded with enhanced learning and practice features, including:

  • Audio pronunciation glossary of orthopaedic terms
  • Matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, figure labeling, and spelling bee exercises
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Audio dictation files
  • Electronic answer keys

Both students and veterans alike will benefit from this extraordinary resource. Develop your skills and enhance your proficiency with Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders: Creating Orthopaedic Reports—a key addition to your educational library.

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Medical Transcription


BASICS
Title: 1,000 Questions to Help You Pass the Emergency Medicine Boards
Author(s): Amer Z Aldeen MD; David H Rosenbaum MD
ISBN: 978-0-7817-7718-6
Price: $69.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

This review book contains 1,000 questions that mimic the in-service residency exam and board exam in emergency medicine. Questions are divided into 10 tests of 100 questions each, and each test covers all areas of emergency medicine: internal medicine and surgery specialty areas, dentistry, trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, toxicology, environmental medicine, radiology, dermatology, EMS, and bioterrorism. Questions are case-based and 10% involve interpreting an image. Answers are included, along with concise explanations of the correct and incorrect answer choices.

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Emergency Medical Technology
Emergency Medicine / Trauma
Residents

FOLLOW UP (Related Titles)
Essential Emergency Procedures , Book
Rosen and Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Third Edition, for PDA , CD-ROM
Rosen and Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Book
Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Book
Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Book
Greenberg's Text-Atlas of Emergency Medicine, Book


BASICS
Title: Model of Human Occupation Theory and Application
Edition: Fourth
Author(s): Gary  Kielhofner MD, PH, OTR, FAOTA
ISBN: 978-0-7817-6996-9
Price: $64.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

Model of Human Occupation, Fourth Edition offers a complete and current presentation of the most widely used model in occupational therapy, and delivers the latest in MOHO theory, research, and application to practice. This authoritative text explores what motivates individuals, how they select occupations and establish everyday routines, how environment influences occupational behavior, and more.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • Case Vignettes that illustrate key concepts that students need to know
  • Case Studies that help students apply the model to practice
  • Chapter on evidence based practice (ch. 25)
  • Chapter on World Health Organization and AOTA practice framework and language links the MOHO model to two widely used frameworks (ch. 27)
  • Photographs of real patients help bring the concepts and cases to life

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Occupational Therapy


BASICS
Title: Primo Gastro: The Pocket GI/Liver Companion
Author(s): Jason M Guardino DO, MSEd
ISBN: 978-0-7817-7944-9
Price: $44.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

Designed for quick, easy point-of-care reference during hospital rounds and in the outpatient clinic, this pocket book provides clinically relevant information on over 100 gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and hepatic problems and important endoscopy topics. Each topic is presented in easy-to-scan bullet lists and tables on interfacing pages, with headings that include definition, epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, physical examination, laboratory studies, diagnostic studies, treatments, complications, and prognosis. The latest national treatment guidelines are presented at the top of the page. When appropriate, topics are cross-referenced to each other.

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Internal Medicine
Residents

FOLLOW UP (Related Titles)
Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics, Book


BASICS
Title: Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care
Edition: Fourth
Author(s): R. Douglas  Collins MD, FACP
ISBN: 978-0-7817-6812-2
Price: $69.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

This text offers students, residents, and practitioners a systematic approach to differential diagnosis of symptoms and signs seen by primary care physicians. The text is organized by symptoms and signs into categories—pain, mass, bloody discharge, non-bloody discharge, functional changes, and abnormal laboratory results. It shows readers how to use their basic science knowledge to identify the possible causes of each symptom, and describes the procedures and laboratory tests that need to be included in the workup. This edition includes fifty new signs and symptoms, case histories for approximately ninety common symptoms and signs, and updated information on current diagnostic procedures.

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Family Medicine / General Practice
General Practice
Internal Medicine
Medical Review
Nursing: Advanced Practice
Nursing: Nurse Practitioner
Physician Assistant
Primary Care

FOLLOW UP (Related Titles)
Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, Book
Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs, Book
A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Book


BASICS
Title: Microcards Review Cards for Medical Students
Edition: Second
Author(s): Sanjiv  Harpavat MD; Sahar  Nissim MD
ISBN: 978-0-7817-6924-2
Price: $34.95

 
DIAGNOSIS

These flashcards will help medical students organize and recall medical microbiology information for course exams and USMLE Step 1. The cards are grouped into sections on gram-positive, gram-negative, and other bacteria; RNA and DNA viruses; fungi; protozoa; and helminths. Each section begins with charts summarizing key information on the group of microorganisms, followed by cards for each individual microbe, which include clinical presentation, pathobiology, diagnosis/treatment, quick facts, and a case study. Schematic illustrations show the morphology and pathogenesis of different microorganisms.

A companion Website provides 70 USMLE-style questions and answers.

TREATMENT (Specialty)
Medical Review
Microbiology
Nursing: Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Pharmacy
Physician Assistant
Psychopharmacology

FOLLOW UP (Related Titles)
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Microbiology I: Virology, Immunology, Parasitology, Mycology, Book
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Microbiology II: Bacteriology, Book
PharmCards, Card Deck
Hardcore Microbiology and Immunology, Book
Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology, Book
High-Yield™ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Book
Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, Book
Microbiology and Immunology for the Boards and Wards, Book
Microbiology Recall, Book
Pathcards, Card Deck
BRS Microbiology Flash Cards, Card Deck
Blueprints Notes & Cases—Microbiology and Immunology, Book


BASICS
Title: Carter Essentials, Student DVD and Workbook Package
Author(s):  Carter
ISBN: 978-0-7817-8970-7
Price: $59.95

 
DIAGNOSIS


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