The editors for this edition are Professor Julian Smith, Head of the Department of Surgery at the School of Clinical Sciences, Professors Andrew Kaye and Christopher Christophi from the University of Melbourne and Professor Wendy Brown, Head of the Department of Surgery at the Central Clinical School.
Professor Smith said, “It was a privilege to be part of a collaborative effort between senior surgical academics at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Even in the current era there is still a demand for a comprehensive surgical textbook for medical students and we hope the new edition will be well received. The previous edition has been extensively revised and a number of new chapters added.”
Members of the Department of Surgery at the School of Clinical Sciences who contributed to one or more of the 83 chapters included Alan Saunder, Andrew Danks, Paul Cashin, Christine Chen, Roger Berry and Julian Smith. Each chapter has been written by an expert in the field.
The Textbook of Surgery is a core book for medical and surgical students providing a comprehensive overview of general and specialty surgery. There are separate sections on basic surgical principles, dedicated to individual surgical specialties and on problem solving for common disorders. The print copy comes with a digital companion edition containing all the content in a format which offers search, annotated tools, bookmarking and image download.
Professor Smith said, “The book is primarily directed towards undergraduate surgical students and towards junior doctors as they prepare for and enter surgical training but can also be consulted by any healthcare professional seeking information on a given surgical condition.”
The first edition was published in 1997 and the subsequent two editions were edited by two highly esteemed academic surgeons from the University of Melbourne, the late Joe Tjandra and the late Gordon Clunie, to whom the current edition is dedicated.
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