Bones and Joints: A Guide for Students, 8th edition

Build confidence in orthopaedics, trauma, and rheumatology with a practical, pocket-friendly guide designed for fast, high-yield learning. You’ll get clear support for history taking, patient examination, and interpreting routine investigations—ideal for clinical placements and undergraduate musculoskeletal anatomy.

Key benefits

• Learn a structured approach to effective history taking, patient examination, and selection and interpretation of routine investigations.
• Strengthen your understanding with sections covering anatomy, paediatrics, and trauma assessment, including pre- and post-operative care and complications.
• Review a comprehensive section on common medications used across orthopaedics, trauma, and rheumatology.
• Improve diagnostic skills and stay informed about current treatment options.
• Benefit from an updated revision that reflects changes in surgical practice, advances in therapeutics, and updated understanding of genetic and inflammatory disorders.
• Use added common procedure details and a refreshed layout with new overview and hints and tips boxes.

Who this is for

This pocketbook is ideal for medical students, junior doctors, and trainees—especially those revising for exams and those in their first years after graduation. It’s also well-suited for clinical placements in orthopaedics, emergency medicine, rheumatology, and general practice, as well as during the undergraduate musculoskeletal anatomy course.

Details

• ISBN: 9780323870818; 0323870813
• Edition: 8
• Authors: James Harcus, Voyin Pantic
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Published Date: 2023-05-29
• Pages: 329

Ready to study smarter for exams and clinical practice? Add this updated guide to your essentials and use it to support confident assessment, investigation interpretation, and current treatment decisions—right when you need them.