This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

by Thomas F. Nealon, Jr, and William H. Nealon, 478 pp, $40, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1994.

William L. Weaver, MD, Reviewer
Buffalo, NY

Arch Surg. 1995;130(5):561.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

When I first received a copy of Fundamental Skills in Surgery for review, my initial impression as I flipped through the text was that this was not a very good book and was too elementary for the needs of surgical residents today. But on a second look, I realized that my initial impression was based on the amount of time I had spent trying to develop and teach the basic science curriculum in surgical education and the selective memory loss of what it was like to be starting out as a surgical house officer on day 1. This is a must-read text for junior surgical residents and those students doing their first surgical rotation.

Behavior in the operating room and care of the patients is learned as apprenticeship; see one, do one, teach one. It would be nice to have a road map along the way, and this book is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?