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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is an amazing book for medical students looking to get a handle on the basics of radiology and the interpretation of images. This book is simplified to the point where it is an enjoyable read without sacrificing content, and covers most of the day-to-day images students will be expected to identify.

I am a nurse practitioner student and I bought this book to help with my radiology interpretation assignments. It's very helpful because it has several images to reference. I am thankful I purchased it because I have yet to miss an answer. It's great for basic interpretations.

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.