Description
The book is still intended as it was originally-mainly for medical students, Fellowship students, physiotherapists and orthopaedic nurses, and as a reference source for general practitioners.
The continuing expansion of the medical curriculum has brought added difficulties for the medical student, who must wonder what may safely be left out. Some economies or omissions are certainly in order in the field of fracture surgery; and accordingly those sections of the material that are not important to the undergraduate have been set in smaller type. (This policy has already proved popular in the companion volume Outline of Orthopaedics.) The space thus gained has been used to bring in further detail in the small-print sections and to introduce text references, for the benefit of those studying for the higher examinations and for those specially interested undergraduate students who wish to read more comprehensively.
