Stephenson Anne (ed.) A Textbook of General Practice

2nd Edition. — Edward Arnold, 2004. — 336 p.Genera! practice is an important site for the education and training of medical students. Not only does it offer a large number of training opportunities in which medical knowledge can be applied, basic clinical skills acquired and attitudinal and ethical concerns explored, it also provides a wide variety of learning situations in which sound management decisions can only be made when this knowledge and skill are integrated with the experience and understanding of the practitioner and the patient. This textbook seeks to support and reflect this process.
The information that this textbook provides is largely generic in that it can be applied to all areas of medicine. In fact, general practice is a good teacher of the basic principles without which the more in-depth information provided by other specialisms cannot be understood. Although the book is largely based on the British experience, it is recognized that readers will be drawn from other countries and so the contents are relevant to any medical system.
This book is a mixture of textbook and workbook. It is not necessary to work through the book from the first to the last page. Rather, we encourage you to work with the chapters that are relevant to your course and stage of development and of interest to you and your tutor. However, as each chapter works as a unit, it may be of greatest use to you if you read the chapter as a whole before you decide how to use it to structure your learning experiences.