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Clinical Cases and OSCEs in Surgery, 3rd Edition

The definitive guide to passing examinations
Authors :
Manoj Ramachandran & Marc A Gladman
Date of Publication: 03/2017
Surgical diagnoses are often made on the basis of clinical assessment alone and thus achieving competence in clinical skills remains imperative to good practice in surgery. This book of over 140 cases is designed for candidates preparing for all surg ...view more

Surgical diagnoses are often made on the basis of clinical assessment alone and thus achieving competence in clinical skills remains imperative to good practice in surgery. This book of over 140 cases is designed for candidates preparing for all surgical examinations, whether at undergraduate, postgraduate or exit examination level. It will demystify and simplify the clinical assessment of surgical cases and provides invaluable advice on how to achieve success. The text includes top tips, acronyms and up-to-date summaries of current practice based on the authors’ personal experience of surgical examinations.

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Surgical diagnoses are often made on the basis of clinical assessment alone and thus achieving competence in clinical skills remains imperative to good practice in surgery. This book of over 140 cases is designed for candidates preparing for all surgical examinations, whether at undergraduate, postgraduate or exit examination level. It will demystify and simplify the clinical assessment of surgical cases and provides invaluable advice on how to achieve success. The text includes top tips, acronyms and up-to-date summaries of current practice based on the authors’ personal experience of surgical examinations.


New to this edition

This fully revised Third Edition now includes 175 photographs of clinical cases and signs as well as key manoeuvres performed during specific surgical examination routines.


Key Features
    • All the cases are graded in terms of likely appearance in the examinations.
    • Top tips emphasize specific subjects which often cause confusion.
    • The text includes both commonly asked and advanced questions relating to each case.
    • Examples of the common procedures and props that come up in the skill-based examination format are included.


    Author Information
    By Manoj Ramachandran, BSc(Hons) MBBS(Hons) MRCS(Eng) FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Paediatric and Young Adult Orthopaedic Surgeon, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London; Honorary Senior Lecturer, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, UK and Marc A Gladman, MBBS DRCOG DFFP PhD MRCOG MRCS (Eng) FRCS (Gen Surg, UK) FRACS, Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Concord Clinical School, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia Head of Academic Colorectal Unit and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia Director, Enteric Neuroscience & Gastrointestinal Research Group, ANZAC Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia