Unofficial Guide to Radiology

Reviews / Votes

"When a Medical Student or Junior Doctor asks me how can I learn radiology from 1 book I now have the answer. The Unofficial Guide to Radiology contains 100 annotated radiographs displaying a very comprehensive range of diseases. The presentation starts with an unknown case, which you are invited to review. You then turn over the page and line diagrams are used to demonstrate what you should have seen. The perfect report is displayed, followed by a series of questions which examine your knowledge of the background medicine or surgery. This is a great way to get a feel for radiology as a whole and will deal with a lot of the problems that Medical Students and Junior Doctors face every day. I can also see its value for those much further on in their career who have specialised in one area and would like to revise radiology as a whole and reassure themselves that they can still remember what they learnt years before. The team producing the book have worked very hard to find good quality images with excellent examples of a wide range of disorders. It also reemphasises the importance of conventional radiographs, which we tend to forget now we concentrate heavily on cross-sectional imaging. I am very pleased to recommend this inexpensive book to a wide range of medical and paramedical professionals." --David Wilson, President of the British Institute of Radiology

"I have not come across a text that is as comprehensive a guide to radiology and radiology services for medical students and junior doctors as this... Other books such as the Lecture Notes of Radiology and Crash course: imaging that are also aimed at providing medical students with an overview of various imaging modalities and how to assess for common pathology do not have the same breadth or readability as this text. Working through this book a student would undoubtedly feel more confident and prepared in presenting imaging findings on a ward round and the authors are to be congratulated on their efforts" --BMA Medical Book Awards 2015

"Which radiographs from each system are most likely to be presented in exams? This excellent book presents the classics, and at one level this makes it a high-yield textbook that will be extremely valuable to medical students and junior doctors. What is especially striking is the definition and clarity of the illustrations, with on-image labelling enabling one to be absolutely certain of which is the endotracheal tube, the nasogastric tube and the central line, for example." --Bob Clarke, Associate Dean, Professional Development, London. Director, Ask Doctor Clarke Ltd.