Practical Guide to Visualizing Medicine A Self-Assessment Manual

This book provides a practically orientated resource that details the use a range of imaging techniques across major specialties plus those that are less well represented in standard textbooks (e.g. cardiothoracic surgery, palliative care, geriatric medicine, skin conditions from diverse ethnic groups). Emphasis is placed on enabling the reader to interpret images and clinical data, while avoiding mistakes and pitfalls in their day-to-day practice. Detailed question and answer sections along with insightful videos reinforce key messages (e.g. visualizing heart murmurs). Grading of questions aids navigation, with more difficult questions to benefit the high-flying students/junior doctors preparing for postgraduate exams/physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners working in a specialist area.

Practical Guide to Visualizing Medicine: A Self-Assessment Manual concisely covers how to use imaging techniques in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology. It emphasizes the value of being able to accurately visualize signs and symptoms to make accurate diagnoses and provide patient-centered care. The added insight given from experienced medical educators on how to select an appropriate medical specialty makes this work critical for all trainee and early-career medical practitioners and allied healthcare professionals.

Professor Shernaz Walton has worked as a Consultant in Hull and East Yorkshire since 1997. In 2016, she was awarded Honorary Professorship, by Hull York Medical School in recognition of her longstanding clinical career with a significant national and international teaching and research contribution in dermatology. She is the principal investigator of several clinical studies in Hull as part of the research portfolio of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). Her own research interests are in the field of Acne and Psoriasis and has authored several publications on these. She has 200 publications, including 3 books and several chapters in textbooks of Dermatology.

Dr Simi Sudhakaran, is a GP Partner and Clinical Research Lead for Modality Hull Division and Clinical Director for Modality LLP Outpatients Services in Hull. She also works as a Specialty doctor in Dermatology at Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust.  She co-authored the dermatology book ‘Treatment of Skin diseases’ published in 2019. She was awarded the GP Research Fellowship by the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network in 2019. She is also the current ‘Research News’ columnist for the Primary Care Dermatology Society quarterly bulletin. She enjoys being a HYMS (Hull York Medical School) Tutor, Foundation Trainer, and mentor for HYMS DermSoc. 

Professor John Cookson is currently Development Dean for a new medical school, University of Worcester UK.  In the past he has worked as a consultant physician in respiratory medicine and was Professor of Medical Education and Undergraduate Dean at the Hull York Medical School.