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Staff who wish to borrow a title from this latest selection of new books should email their branch library with their contact details.
Case Files: Emergency Medicine, 5th Edition
by Eugene Toy
Real-life cases for success on the emergency medicine clerkship and shelf-exam.
Experience with clinical cases is key to mastering the art and science of medicine and ultimately to providing patients with competent medical care. Case Files®: Emergency Medicine, Fifth Edition delivers 60 true-to-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in emergency medicine. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, high-yield presentation of key diagnostic and treatment information, USMLE-style review question to enhance your learning.
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Learn from 60 high-yield cases, each with board-style questions
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Enhance your clinical knowledge with clinical pearls
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Test yourself with 14 new integrated challenge questions
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Polish your approach to clinical problem solving and patient care
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Maximize your shelf exam score with this proven learning system
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NEW! Important information on COVID-19, opioid overdose, social issues in emergency medicine, medical errors, interprofessional teamwork, endocrine emergencies, viral meningitis, and vertigo
Case Files: Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6th Edition
by Eugene Toy
Realistic patient cases to help sharpen clinical decision-making skills
The 60 cases in Case Files Obstetrics & Gynecology, Sixth Edition feature realistic clinical scenarios designed to help you enhance and hone your clinical decision-making skills. Each case includes an easy-to-understand discussion correlated to key concepts, definitions of key terms, clinical pearls, and Board-style review questions to reinforce learning. The format allows you to review a patient vignette and then explore/examine the case in a contextual, application-based manner. The book is ideal for both quick-access and slow and careful study.
Ramsay LibraryConcepts of the Self, 4th Edition
by Anthony Elliott
This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical intellectual traditions of symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis and Foucauldian theory, through feminism and postfeminism, to postmodernism and the mobilities paradigm.
With characteristic verve and clarity, Anthony Elliott explores the relationship between power, identity and personhood, connecting varied theoretical debates directly to matters of contemporary relevance and urgency, such as identity politics, the sociology of personal relationships and intimacy, and the politics of sexuality. This edition also includes a new chapter on the digital revolution, which situates the self and work/life transformations within the context of AI, Industry 4.0, advanced robotics and accelerating automation.
Offering thoughtful entry points to a rich and complex literature, along with robust critical responses to each theory, Concepts of the Self will continue to be an invaluable text for students of social and political theory, sociology, social psychology, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Designing and Conducting Survey Reseach: A Comprehensive Guide, 4th Edition
by Louis Rea and Richard Parker
Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide, Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques and SPSS procedures with sample data sets online. The book offers practical, actionable guidance on constructing the instrument, administrating the process, and analyzing and reporting the results, providing extensive examples and worksheets that demonstrate the appropriate use of survey and data techniques. By clarifying complex statistical concepts and modern analysis methods, this guide enables readers to conduct a survey research project from initial focus concept to the final report.
Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management, 8th Edition
by Anthony Brown and Michael Cadogan
The Eighth edition of this international bestselling emergency medicine handbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest evidence-based guidelines and treatment protocols underpinning best practice in emergency medical care.
Carefully designed to suit the needs of interns and resident doctors working in the emergency department as well as specialist trainees, the book covers the full range of emergencies - general medical, infectious disease and foreign travel-related, toxicological, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological, ophthalmic and psychiatric - as well as practical procedures and administrative and legal issues.
Essentials of Thematic Analysis
by Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield
In this book, Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield introduce readers to reflexive thematic analysis, a method of analyzing interview and focus group transcripts, qualitative survey responses, and other qualitative data. Central to this method is the recognition that we are all situated in a particular context, and that we see and speak from that position. This leads researchers to produce knowledge that represents situated truths, providing insights into people's perspectives on a given topic.
Layers 2. Direct Composites: The Styleitaliano Clinical Secrets
by Jordi Manauta
Layers 2. Direct Composites: The Styleitaliano Clinical Secrets is an essential reference that addresses everyday clinical challenges in esthetic and restorative dentistry by outlining innovative techniques, step by step. Focusing mainly on composite materials, which are the present and future of conservative and esthetic treatments, the authors reinforce their expertise and experience of more than 20 years in esthetic dentistry by providing an important synthesis of the state of the art.
Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy: A Conversational Model
by Michael Barkham
This book presents for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. Drawing on forty years of research, teaching and practice, its expert authors guide you through the conversational model’s theory, skills and implications for practice.
Part I sets out the model’s underlying theory and outlines the evidence for its efficacy with client groups.
Part II guides you through clinical skills of the model, from foundational to advanced.
Part III offers practical guidance on implementing the approach within a range of settings, and for developing effective practice through reflection and supervision.
Research Design: Qualitative , Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 6th Edition
John Creswell and David Creswell
The new edition of the best-selling text, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, continues the pioneering tradition of providing clear and concise instruction for understanding research and developing proposals for all three approaches. John W. Creswell and co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry in a way that is applicable to all types of research. Key elements of the research process, giving specific attention to each approach. The book has been lauded for its language and tone, which are both accessible and inviting. It is a text that students keep and continue to use as a resource throughout their studies, once the specific class is over. The Sixth Edition includes more coverage of community-based participatory research, comparisons of qualitative and quantitative research, an expanded glossary with basic terms, updated examples of social, behavioral, and health research, new coverage of ethical requirements, updated APA 7th edition coverage, and additional exercises aimed at research projects.
Talley & O'Connor's Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis, 9th Edition, 2 volume set
Simon O'Connor and Nicholas Talley
Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination addresses the core principles and clinical skills that underpin diagnosis for safe, effective medical practice.
The text takes an evidence-based, patient-centric approach to conducting a clinical examination. In Volume 1, readers follow a logical framework ordered by body system, covering history taking, clinical examination and correlation between physical signs and disease for each system. Volume 2 focuses on medical specialties.
Originally written by Nicholas J Talley and Simon O'Connor during their registrar years, this book is uniquely targeted to students undertaking their MD or MBBS and is fully updated with the latest clinical data, including specially commissioned research.
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OSCE-based scenario videos and multiple-choice questions to assist with examination preparation
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Imaging library and ECG case studies for deep understanding
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History questions suggesting urgent or important diagnosis specially marked
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Differential diagnosis tables to support history taking
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Evidence-based medicine references throughout
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An eBook included in all print purchases
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Expanded history taking sections
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Increased OSCE content
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New clinical photographs
