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Basic Surgical Skills
by David A. Sherris, MD, and Eugene B. Kern, MD, 152 pp, illustrated and with CD-ROM, $39.95, ISBN 1-893005-51-8, Rochester, Minn, Mayo Clinic, 1999.
Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:1418.
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Congratulations to both Sherris and Kern for providing a valuable addition to the process of training medical students and future surgeons. Their newly published Basic Surgical Skills (with CD-ROM) fills an obvious void by providing a simple but thorough overview of basic surgical terminology, concepts, and techniques—a learning process that has historically passed from surgeon to trainee in an apprenticeship fashion.
Geared toward medical students or first-year surgical residents (including dermatologic surgery), this book/CD-ROM set follows a new trend in medical multimedia textbooks; it combines a 152-page paperback book with an accompanying CD-ROM. The text is divided into 14 sections and covers many of the things previously learned as the result of trial and error: everything from the the process of scrubbing, the basic science of wound healing, the concept of relaxed skin tension lines, suture materials, local anesthetics, surgical instruments, surgical knots, skin closure using 9 different techniques, hemostasis, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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