Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards

by Pestana, Carlos

• ISBN13: 9781625231123
• ISBN10: 1625231121
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-07
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Summary

Celebrated by medical students for over a decade, Dr. Pestana’s Surgery Notes is the highest-yield surgery review for the shelf and USMLE Step 2 CK exams.
Surgical clerkship allows senior medical students to develop clinical skills and gain a better understanding of surgical disease while caring for patients. But time in the wards is limited, and clerkship covers only a tiny sample of the surgical universe. Dr. Pestana’s Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards, by distinguished surgery instructor Dr. Carlos Pestana, contains the surgery knowledge you need to excel on the Surgery shelf exam and USMLE Step 2 CK.

• Concise high-yield review of core surgery material
• 180 vignettes for self-testing
• Used by med students for over a decade
• NEW: 7 feature boxes illuminating tricky surgical topics
• Revised and fully up-to-date
• Pocket-sized to carry with you in the wards
• Amazon's #1 Best Seller in Emergency Medicine

Author Biography

Carlos Pestana, MD, PhD, is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. Ranked #1 in his medical school class, Dr. Pestana has a doctorate in surgery from the University of Minnesota and did a 5-year surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic. He has received over 40 teaching awards and prizes for teaching excellence. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Comprehensive Part II Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners that designed what is now the clinical component of the USMLE Step 2 exam. Dr. Pestana is also the author of Fluids and Electrolytes in the Surgical Patient, which has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Greek.