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The Unofficial Guide to Orthopaedics

  • 1st Edition - September 11, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Zeshan Qureshi, Christopher Gee
  • Language: English

The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, resident doctors, and specialty experts. This combination of contributors unders… Read more

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The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, resident doctors, and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understands what is essential to excel on your course, in exams, and in practice – as well as the importance of presenting information in a clear, fun, and engaging way. Packed with hints and tips from those in the know, when you are in a hurry and need a study companion you can trust, reach for an Unofficial Guide.

This book covers the entire undergraduate orthopaedics curriculum and beyond, with clear, concise explanations of orthopaedic pathology and management of conditions. It also covers the wider surgical, medical, and anaesthetic issues orthopods should understand, as well as hints and tips for surviving an orthopaedic on-call and trauma meeting.

Key features

  • Content matched to the undergraduate orthopaedics curriculum
  • Reliable, up-to-date evidence, informed by leading academics and specialists
  • 36 OSCE scenarios to support the reader to apply knowledge to clinical and exam situations
  • Learning enhanced with 90 MCQs, with full explanations
  • Over 150 high-quality annotated X-rays, from subtle findings to severe fractures
  • Insight into the reality of working in orthopaedics, as well as orthopaedic careers
  • Covers key practical procedures
  • Structure modelled on other highly successful Unofficial Guides

Table of contents

1. Principles of Practice

SECTION I UPPER LIMB

2. Shoulder

3. Elbow and Forearm

4. Hand and Wrist

SECTION II LOWER LIMB

5. Hip

6. Knee

7. Foot and Ankle

8. Spine

SECTION III PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS

9. Paediatric Orthopaedics

SECTION IV ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY

10. Bone Tumours

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 12, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

ZQ

Zeshan Qureshi

Affiliations and expertise
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Paediatric Registrar, London, UK

CG

Christopher Gee

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Glasgow; Member, Faculty of Surgical Trainers, UK