Main description:

The new Excellence in Surgery from CRC Press comprises five practical texts to address the needs of the Intercollegiate MRCS Examination. Historically, each of the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons in the UK and Ireland (RCS England, RCS Edinburgh, RCPS Glasgow, RCS Ireland) had its own FRCS examination, with varying degrees of reciprocity of the component parts. However, after many years of negotiation, the colleges have now agreed on a single Intercollegiate FRCS (fellowship) examination - this includes the MRCS (member of the Royal College of Surgeons), an examination that attracts over 800 candidates each year.The new MRCS curriculum covers a wide range of subjects: basic sciences (anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology), basic surgical skills, patient assessment and management, and the basic content of all ten surgical subspecialties. A number of traditional texts address the needs of the previous MRCS examinations, but this new Excellence in Surgery Series fills the need for a contemporary series that covers all aspects of the new examination (excluding anatomy).The Editorial Team includes two Senior Trainees (Massey and Saha) who have recent exposure to the Intercollegiate Examination: they both have established a path in teaching and medical writing, and have a network of peers, with similar experience, keen to provide relevant chapters. The third editor (Lumley) has wide experience writing and editing texts across surgical and other medical fields. The second volume in the series covers Basic Surgical Skills, including surgical safety, procedural skills, basic operative skills and non-technical skills for surgeons.

Contents:

Surgical safety. Basic procedural skills. Basic operative skills. Operations.