Essential Prescribing provides medical students with an easy-to-follow overview of
the drugs they are most likely to encounter at medical school and as they start
their medical careers.




The book benefits from the same landscape format and approach as Scion's
bestselling Essential Examination.



Each class of drug is detailed using a common tabular format, based on the
following sections:

Examples, Mode of Action, Routes of
Delivery, Indications, Cautions and contraindications, Interactions,
Monitoring, Side-effects, Patient counselling.


This
consistent approach helps the reader quickly find the pertinent information for
the common drugs and situations they are likely to come across, so they can
become confident of prescribing the correct drugs for the patient in
appropriate doses.


The
book also features a questions and answer section at the end of the book for the reader to
assess their knowledge.



All medical students and
foundation doctors now have to prove their prescribing competence by taking the
recently-introduced Prescribing Safety Assessment. Essential Prescribing not only arms the reader with the key
knowledge for this assessment, but also provides them with the core prescribing
knowledge they will need as their medical careers progress.


Amazon
5-star review:


"This book is
a wealth of information! Well written in a simple concise [manner], easy to