Eureka: General Surgery & Urology Eureka Series

Eureka ? an innovative series for students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.

Eureka ? content that reflects today?s medical degree courses with their emphasis on:

• relevance and application of core science to clinical practice
• skills required to examine and communicate with patients
• integrated care across primary and acute care settings

Eureka ? 15 clinical titles, 5 science titles:

• Clinical titles ? disease-based, clinical cases, system-specific core science
• Science titles ? bedrock biomedical principles, clinical cases

Series features across titles:

• Engaging clinical cases show how skilled clinician would work through a presentation, and put diseases and biomedical principles into patient context
• Innovative graphic narratives bring clinical cases to life, show how to approach difficult scenarios and convey the experience of being a patient
• Starter questions - stimulating answers to intriguing questions make learning fun 
• Boxes highlight tips, tricks and key learning points

General Surgery & Urology

• First principles chapter clearly explains key concepts such as assessment of the patient fitness for surgery, patient consent and pain management
• Clinical essentials chapter provides an overview of the symptoms and signs of surgical disease, investigations and management options
• Disease-based chapters briefly describe, by system, relevant structure and function,  history and examination and main surgical presentations, each chapter introduced by engaging clinical cases that feature unique graphic narratives
• Emergencies chapter covers the principles of immediate care in situations such as acute appendicitis
• Self-Assessment ? 80 multiple choice questions in clinical SBA format, in line with current exam format

Ch01 First principles
Ch02 Clinical essentials
Ch03 Breast disease
Ch04 Endocrine disease
Ch05 Upper gastrointestinal disease
Ch06 Lower gastrointestinal disease
Ch07 Hepatobiliary disease
Ch08 Urology
Ch09 Vascular disease
Ch10 Surgical emergencies
Ch11 Self-assessment

Stephen Parker

Warwick Medical School, UK