General surgery resources for students
Medical students spend lots of money on textbooks. But now the internet contains lots of resources including several surgical textbooks that are available free of charge.Surgical Treatment: Evidence Based and Problem-Oriented (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=surg.TOC)
is probably one of the best online texts which covers the various topics in general surgery. The contents follow the usual format of paper surgery textbooks and classify the chapters according to the diseased organ. At the end of each section, a reference section links to Pubmed.
An extensive list of relevant surgical topics is covered at Emedicine (www.emedicine.com/med/GENERAL_SURGERY.htm). You can find review and tutorial articles, written by experts in surgery. The text is aimed at students, so even the basic science part of each surgical condition is described in detail. At the bottom of each article are references which help you to find more detailed information.
The University of Chicago Medical School's website holds lecture notes for students on most common surgical topics (http://surgery.uchicago.edu/ed/readings.cfm?section=General). Visitors to this website are supposed to have some basic knowledge of normal anatomy since only information about clinically oriented anatomy is given. At the end of each lecture are self assessment questions. Although “acute appendicitis” is not covered, the site is still a good resource for most common surgical diseases.
The University of Iowa offers a few books in general surgery. The first one is the Emergency War Surgery Handbook (www.vnh.org/EWSurg/EWSTOC.html) which covers the pathologic basis and management of wounds. The second one, the General Surgery University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook (www.vh.org/adult/provider/familymedicine/FPHandbook/15.html), is a good resource for those who need just a brief guide. Here you can find really concise guidelines on urgent surgical conditions.
Few websites contain colour atlases, but one of them is Westcott Atlas of Surgery (www.bgsm.edu/surg-sci/atlas/atlas.html), which contains the schemes and pictures of different laparoscopic surgeries. Another site (www.laparoscopy.com) has a collection of pictures and videos of the most common laparoscopic procedures in the different branches of surgery. These websites are particularly useful for making presentations.
Advanced level medical students might refer to peer reviewed surgery journals with free access to full text articles. There are quite a few, including BMC Surgery (www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2482), the Canadian Journal of Surgery (www.cma.ca/cjs/index.htm), and
Contemporary Surgery (www.contemporarysurgery.com).
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