Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics (With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access)

As a graduating med student, I, like many others, don't feel like I got a comprehensive radiology introduction. Given that I'm going into surgery and didn't have time for a radiology elective, I bought this book.As an introduction, this books is excellent. It is very clear, concise, well-organized. The images (obviously a key) are well chosen and very well labeled. They were representative of what the text talked about, so that it was easy to apply the concepts immediately. Finally, the breadth of the book is impressive. I'm going into general surgery, so I was focused predominantly on the chest/abdomen sections, but there was also quite a bit of orthopedics and some gyne. Neurology is included at the end, but very basic head CT's and occasional MRI.For me, the greatest strength of the book is the chest radiograph. There are numerous chapters on it, focusing on the basics of image densities and then on the various subsets of disease (e.g. pneumonias, cardiac, etc) that can be evaluated. Truly an amazing job. While the abdominal plain film section was not nearly as comprehensive, I still found it very edifying and learned the basic approach and the major findings. In terms of chest/abdo ct, the book does not really give you an approach, but it does illuminate numerous key findings, as best as can be done in a physical book.This brings me to the one weakness that I found: The internet accompaniment. I rarely use the studentconsult (or equivalent options) in my textbooks, but I thought that it would be particularly useful for radiology. I was hoping to have the option to scroll through some CTs/MRIs, have extra practice with plain films, maybe see some ultrasound videos, etc. However, what I found was essentially the exact same content as the book online. Perhaps I'm using it wrong, but the online portion added nothing to the experience, which is unfortunate in a subject such as this.In any case, however, the book is excellent and good introduction/crash course for the soon-to-be interns out there.

I got this book while rotating through my radiology 4th year elective, and I have to say it is truly well written book that would benefit both radiologists and non-radiologist alike. It allows you to get a better grasp at reading images and better understand it as well; and definitely a good skill to develop to prepare yourself for your intern year. Personally, I wish I had know about this book as a 3rd year med student since it would have been an invaluable resource going through internal medicine and surgery clinical rotations. And as I mentioned earlier, it’s a good reference for your intern year and even for individuals pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine as well, as you definitely do a lot of imaging studies. The supplemental web materials and quizzes are a good way to test your knowledge as well.

Both my roommate and I bought this book for our radiology rotation. He bought the book and I the kindle version. While the text is concise and hits the key points a med student should know, I wish the resolution of the pictures on the kindle edition were better. They appear better in the print version. Whenever you enlarge the fairly small images, they get very blocky. For a radiology book, I would hope the images had better resolution.Hopefully amazon or the publisher can fix this resolution problem.

I am a soon to graduate 4th year in medical school who just completed a month long radiology course. I got this book on a whim since I thought I was not learning enough. This book definitely taught me more than the whole month of staring at people read images. If you are looking for something that will teach you all the PRACTICAL basics that an INTERN will NEED to know when having to make a decision at 2am without the help of a radiologist, then look no further. This is the book for you. I have been telling all of my friends about it. It is a must-read.

I was the professor of X-ray. And I recommended the website of Dr.Herring. If you do not know that site, just go for that right now firstly.This is the textbook of Dr.Herring. In my kindle, this was not shown clearly, but it was amazing book in my computer.If you are sitting in front of your desktop or laptop, you can read very clearly the pictures. It is very easily understood and the book has a good contents.This is a really good book for beginner of medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy etc.

Very well organized and easy to read, and contains a lot of useful clinical advice that would benefit radiologists and non-radiologists alike. I actually wish all medical/surgical interns could read this as well so that they would understand the appropriate studies to order for their patients. The accompanying web materials (including several mini-quizzes) are also very helpful for practicing anatomy and recognizing basic radiologic findings. On a side note, LearningRadiology.com is the best website in existence for learning radiology and is great resource even for attending radiologists.

Great book for medical students on a Radiology clerkship. Will not make you a radiologist (I believe they have residencies for that sort of thing) but goes in to the level of expertise and detail expected of a 3rd/4th year student. Well organized and easy to read, in my opinion extremely useful even if you don't have plans to go into Rad.

You may have to get this (however very helpful) book rebound at a place like Kinkos. I had this book for a week with mild daily studying and it had already started losing its binding.UPDATE: I have been contacted by the author and the publisher. They will take care of any issues you have if you happen to get an unlucky binding.

Although I have always found that Radiology is incomprehensible, I must say, this book changed it all. I am so glad I chose this specific book. It made me LOVE radiology and I even think about specialize in it. If you are at any point of trying to understand radiology, don't even think about it any more. Try this and you will be glad you did. And for the record, english is not my first language, (obviously), but this book made it much more clear than any other mother-language-book I've read. And I've read lots.

Great book for medical students as an an overview and all I need for med school. Well structured with the appropriate amount of pictures.

Very useful. Covered what I needed and more.

Ottimo libro per lo studente che fa i suoi primi passi nel mondo della radiologia. Concetti chiari, semplici, ordinati con molte immagini ed esempi per esercitarsi (di gran lunga il miglior libro di "radiologia pratica" che mi sia capitato tra le mani. Con il codice presente nel libro è possibile accedere a ulteriori preziosi contenuti online. Costo contenuto per la qualità dell'opera. La seconda edizione introduce anche la RMN e l'ecografia e aggiunge contenuti di TC. Unico "limite": è presente solo la versione inglese, per cui se non avete un buon livello potrebbe risultare ostico. Sconsigliato o superfluo per radiologi già esperti.

good condition. not the first radiology book you want to have for study. but it is convenient as it include chest, abdomen and extremity.