Surgical Recall, Fifth North American Edition (Recall Series) [Paperback]

Lorne H. Blackbourne MD FACS (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781770769 | ISBN-13: 978-0781770767 | Publication Date: April 21, 2008 | Edition: Fifth, North American Edition

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this reference for third and fourth year medical students on surgical clerkships enables quick study in a rapid-fire Q&A format. A perfect fit for a lab coat pocket, this book is commonly used as a quick review prior to surgical rounds as well as for board review.

Purchasers of this edition will get both the print book and access to MP3 audio files of the entire text. All Q&A material will also be posted online in the form of electronic flashcards for self-quizzing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth, North American Edition edition (April 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781770769
• ISBN-13: 978-0781770767
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pimp book, April 2, 2010

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This review is from: Surgical Recall, Fifth North American Edition (Recall Series) (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for getting your attendings questions right, but it isn't going to help you for the shelf exam. It doesn't give clinical vignettes and doesn't introduce principles of managing conditions. Most of the surgery shelf exam has to do with managing post operative complications or how to manage a surgical patient as a medical intern. With that said, this book gives general information that a beginner needs to know ranging from where the surgeon stands and how to tie knots to how to classify orthopedic fractures. It is a good pocket book, but if you only have one source to choose to pass the shelf, leave this one at the store.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Key to success in the OR, April 6, 2010

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This review is from: Surgical Recall, Fifth North American Edition (Recall Series) (Paperback)

I found the OR to be an almost laughable game once I started reading Recall. The attendings would ask the exact questions in Recall in almost every case with very few exceptions. Knowing what case you are about go into and taking the 10 mins or so to read the relevant chapter or section in Recall made answering those questions very easy.

I never tried to read Recall from cover to cover. Doing so would be painfully difficult as it is truly just a list of high yield facts with very little interpretation or explanation.

Recall is organized around procedures / diagnosis and as such is of limited use as a reference for expanding a differential diagnosis in a case write up.

It is, however, an absolutely invaluable tool for surviving the OR.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Recall Book - Use it to prep for pimping, May 6, 2008

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This review is from: Surgical Recall, Fifth North American Edition (Recall Series) (Paperback)

Surgery is a difficult rotation in terms of content and time commitment. Therefore, it's best to study to maximize your time. This book will prepare you for surviving rounds and those pimp sessions while you are retracting. The book is well organized by topic and great to quickly review before discussing/encountering a particular patient. The book saved me several times during a long surgery. However, of note, to survive the shelf exam and osce, you will need a textbook as well. Good choices to supplement this book would be Essentials of General Surgery or First Aid for the Surgery Clerkship.