N. Hacker – Hacker and Moore Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2016)

Автор: N. Hacker
Название книги: Hacker and Moore Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2016)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 474
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology, by Drs. Neville F. Hacker, Joseph C. Gambone, and Calvin J. Hobel, is the #1 choice of ob/gyn residents and medical students because of its concise focus, comprehensive coverage, and easy-to-use format. This new edition features updated clinical cases and assessments, new Clinical Key boxes, and thoroughly revised text and images that reflect today’s best knowledge on the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of ob/gyn disorders.

Concise, comprehensive content is well organized, highly accessible, and relevant to today’s practice.
High-quality, full-color design for maximum readability.
Online access to updated clinical cases, self-assessment tools, an obstetric statistics resource, and a glossary of common terms.
New Clinical Key boxes and judicious use of bolding make it easy to identify the high-yield material you need to know.

It has been thirty years since the first edition of Essentials
of Obstetrics and Gynecology was published. As
stated in the Preface to the First Edition, there was
then, and continues to be today, a need for a textbook
that covers the essential aspects of the specialty of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, which is written primarily
for the student and resident physician training in the
field. The text has become known as ”Hacker and
Moore” over the years, as a tribute to the pioneering
work of the original editors. The late J. George “Jerry”
Moore was the Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics
and Gynecology at the University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA), and the concept for the book was his.
Neville Hacker was then an Assistant Professor in the
Department and was in charge of the Student Clerkship.
He was co-opted by Jerry to co-edit the book, after
the entire UCLA faculty had agreed to participate in its
writing.
The first edition of any textbook contains the vision
and forms the foundation of the intent of the work, as
outlined in the original preface. The editors have always
felt that a new edition should be published only when
there was significant new clinical information to report.
Based on that standard, we believe it is now time for
the sixth and latest edition of “Hacker and Moore” to
be published.
Medical education is continuously evolving, and has
changed significantly since the first edition of this textbook
was published in 1986. The internet with its
world-wide web and other technologies have made
information instantly available to students and residents
on a mobile phone or tablet during a clinical
meeting. They are being taught to be life-long learners
and information seekers. The classroom dynamics
have been flipped in the past decade, in the sense that
information transfer and gathering occurs before a
seminar, with classroom time now increasingly devoted
to discussions and problem solving by teams of students
supported by diverse faculty mentors. This is
appropriate, because health care is increasingly being
delivered by multidisciplinary teams of professionals
rather than by individual practitioners. With the everincreasing
complexity of medical and surgical care, this
trend is expected to continue.
Textbooks have the recognized disadvantage of not
always containing the latest information on a topic and
of having a limited “shelf life.” But just as newspapers
and periodicals (printed or electronic) provide a “first
and early draft” of human history and require frequent
correction over time, medical texts should contain and
document the time-tested facts of a discipline, along
with newer information viewed through the prism of
evidence-based and safe practice. It is our belief that
textbooks will continue to provide the reliable essentials
of all clinical practice, including the practice of
obstetrics and gynecology.
All of the 42 chapters in this edition have been
updated. Some chapters have been completely rewritten.
Others have been modified due to changes in clinical
practice. As was the case in previous editions of this
text, we have worked to include only the “essentials” of
obstetrics and gynecology, making difficult choices
about the breadth and depth of the material presented.
Every attempt has been made to include material consistent
with the learning objectives and goals proposed
by the Association of Professors in Gynecology and
Obstetrics (APGO), available on their website at www.
apgo.org.
In addition to the authors and editors of this current
edition, we wish to acknowledge and thank those who
have contributed to all previous editions.* Their knowledge
and wisdom contained in their words, some of which remain in this edition, form the foundation of
this work and will continue to enlighten future students
of obstetrics and gynecology.
We greatly appreciate, and wish to acknowledge, the
support and professionalism of James Merritt and his
excellent production staff, particularly Rhoda Howell,
Rachel McMullen, Amy Meros, and Julia Roberts at
Elsevier. We hope that the knowledge acquired from
this book will encourage many to pursue a more in
depth study of the specialty