Crash Course: Psychiatry
3rd Edition
Published on 7. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-7234-3476-4 (ISBN)
Description
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Provides the exam syllabus in one place!
Written by senior medical students or junior doctors - authors who really understand today's exam situation!
Senior Faculty Advisors ensure complete accuracy of the text.
Full artwork programme, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, and 'Communication' boxes help you remember the key points.
Self-Assessment section - fully updated to reflect new curriculum requirements - helps you maximise your grade.
Solid, accurate, user-friendly coverage provides enough detail even for those aiming at distinction.
Fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for current examination practice.
Includes useful 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter.
Pharmacological and disease management information updated in line with current best practice guidelines.
Discusses key aspects of patient communication - presented in easy 'Communication' boxes.
Fully updated to include feedback from hundreds of students.
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Provides the exam syllabus in one place!
Written by senior medical students or junior doctors - authors who really understand today's exam situation!
Senior Faculty Advisors ensure complete accuracy of the text.
Full artwork programme, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, and 'Communication' boxes help you remember the key points.
Self-Assessment section - fully updated to reflect new curriculum requirements - helps you maximise your grade.
Solid, accurate, user-friendly coverage provides enough detail even for those aiming at distinction.
Fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for current examination practice.
Includes useful 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter.
Pharmacological and disease management information updated in line with current best practice guidelines.
Discusses key aspects of patient communication - presented in easy 'Communication' boxes.
Fully updated to include feedback from hundreds of students.
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Provides the exam syllabus in one place!
Written by senior medical students or junior doctors - authors who really understand today's exam situation!
Senior Faculty Advisors ensure complete accuracy of the text.
Full artwork programme, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, and 'Communication' boxes help you remember the key points.
Self-Assessment section - fully updated to reflect new curriculum requirements - helps you maximise your grade.
Solid, accurate, user-friendly coverage provides enough detail even for those aiming at distinction.
Fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for current examination practice.
Includes useful 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter.
Pharmacological and disease management information updated in line with current best practice guidelines.
Discusses key aspects of patient communication - presented in easy 'Communication' boxes.
Fully updated to include feedback from hundreds of students.
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
Provides the exam syllabus in one place!
Written by senior medical students or junior doctors - authors who really understand today's exam situation!
Senior Faculty Advisors ensure complete accuracy of the text.
Full artwork programme, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, and 'Communication' boxes help you remember the key points.
Self-Assessment section - fully updated to reflect new curriculum requirements - helps you maximise your grade.
Solid, accurate, user-friendly coverage provides enough detail even for those aiming at distinction.
Fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for current examination practice.
Includes useful 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter.
Pharmacological and disease management information updated in line with current best practice guidelines.
Discusses key aspects of patient communication - presented in easy 'Communication' boxes.
Fully updated to include feedback from hundreds of students.
Welcome to Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you need! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place! Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation!
Fully updated with improved layout, the first part of this volume addresses the clinical presentations in psychiatry while the second part examines common psychiatric disorders, all in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. The third part covers clinical assessment and psychiatric management providing all of the facts you need to get things right. Additional new features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Communication' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs.
Crash Course - an easier way to get through the exam!
More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Undergraduate medical students - revision aid
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 246 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7234-3476-4 (9780723434764)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Katie FM Marwick | Steven Birrell
Crash Course Psychiatry
Book
05/2013
4th Edition
Mosby
€52.18
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Previous edition
Alasdair Cameron | M. J. Akhtar
Crash Course: Psychiatry
Book
03/2004
2nd Edition
Mosby
€48.46
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Persons
Julius Bourke is currently a Senior House Officer on the East London and the City psychiatry rotation, where he works in general adult and transcultural psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, intensive care, child and adolescent mental health, and assertive outreach and mental health for older people. Dr Bourke's principle interests lie in liaison psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, including the psychiatry of epilepsy and psychiatric applications of neuroimaging. He is an Inceptor of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of The College's Special Interest Group in Neuropsychiatry (SIGN), the Trainees and New Consultants Group in Liaison Psychiatry and is a Young Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine. Since graduating, Dr Bourke has also worked in Accident and Emergency, Neurology and abroad in Hyperbaric Medicine. He has passed part one of the MRCP and the MRCPsych examinations. His personal interests lie in photography, diving, waterskiing, music and travel.
Julius Bourke is currently a Senior House Officer on the East London and the City psychiatry rotation, where he works in general adult and transcultural psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, intensive care, child and adolescent mental health, and assertive outreach and mental health for older people. Dr Bourke's principle interests lie in liaison psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, including the psychiatry of epilepsy and psychiatric applications of neuroimaging. He is an Inceptor of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of The College's Special Interest Group in Neuropsychiatry (SIGN), the Trainees and New Consultants Group in Liaison Psychiatry and is a Young Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine. Since graduating, Dr Bourke has also worked in Accident and Emergency, Neurology and abroad in Hyperbaric Medicine. He has passed part one of the MRCP and the MRCPsych examinations. His personal interests lie in photography, diving, waterskiing, music and travel.
Julius Bourke is currently a Senior House Officer on the East London and the City psychiatry rotation, where he works in general adult and transcultural psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, intensive care, child and adolescent mental health, and assertive outreach and mental health for older people. Dr Bourke's principle interests lie in liaison psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, including the psychiatry of epilepsy and psychiatric applications of neuroimaging. He is an Inceptor of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a member of The College's Special Interest Group in Neuropsychiatry (SIGN), the Trainees and New Consultants Group in Liaison Psychiatry and is a Young Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine. Since graduating, Dr Bourke has also worked in Accident and Emergency, Neurology and abroad in Hyperbaric Medicine. He has passed part one of the MRCP and the MRCPsych examinations. His personal interests lie in photography, diving, waterskiing, music and travel.
Content
Part I: The patient presents with
Part II: Diseases and Disorders
Part III: History, Examination and Common Investigations
Part IV: Self-assessment
Part II: Diseases and Disorders
Part III: History, Examination and Common Investigations
Part IV: Self-assessment