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The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2007;9:2:138
doi: 10.1576/toag.9.2.138.27318
Copyright © 2007 by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
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Book reviews

Specialist Training in Gynaecology

Authors Margaret Rees, Sally Hope


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This paperback is advertised as being for doctors starting their career in obstetrics and gynaecology: I would certainly agree that trainees just starting specialist training are the target audience. Topics are not covered in enough detail for the book to be regarded as the main text for MRCOG candidates, but it is written at the right level for the DRCOG examination (although it is not intended for this and would not replace texts written from a general practice perspective). It is reasonably priced and does, indeed, provide ‘a bridge between introductory undergraduate texts and the very large and expensive major reference works’.

The contributors all have an easy, straightforward style of writing and the illustrations add to the text so that each chapter engages the reader. However, some of the clinical photographs were a little unhelpful; for example, it is hard to actually see the genital wart! The references for further reading are extremely useful and I liked the way that the summary tables are highlighted in a different colour box, which serves to underline important information to be committed to memory. RCOG guidelines are referred to frequently, which will please exam candidates. There are some useful paragraphs about ‘future directions’ at the end of each chapter but, unfortunately, some of them – for example, liquid based cytology – have already happened and this illustrates the time lag between writing a book like this and its appearance on the bookshop shelves.

There are no chapters on prolapse and incontinence, which one might expect to find in a text on specialist training in gynaecology. I could not find any mention at all of trophoblastic disease. On a more minor note, having just come across a gynaecology specialist registrar who was unaware of how to marsupialise a Bartholin abscess, it might have been useful to include more detail (with perhaps an illustration) in the emergency gynaecology chapter. With these reservations, I would recommend this book to my senior house officers.

Susan J Ward, FRCS(Ed) DM FRCOG, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Associate Dean1

1. Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK

Mosby, 2004
ISBN 0723432449
Paperback, 236 pages, £36.99





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