Eureka: General Surgery and Urology

 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.

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