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As the specialty of accident and emergency (A&E) develops the knowledge base from which we learn expands. The diversity of the area means it is difficult to provide comprehensive, useful textbooks for the specialty and despite the emergence of a number of handbooks aimed at the senior house officer (SHO) it remains difficult for the specialist registrar to find texts pitched at an appropriate level. The introduction of the FFAEM exam has provided an added impetus for trainees to expand their academic knowledge.
In view of these issues we as a group of A&E trainees in the Yorkshire Deanery have produced a book list that could be used as the basis for specialist registrar reading. We have attempted to cover all areas of A&E practice and, if identified in our search process, include more than one book per subject bearing in mind that doctors from different backgrounds will approach a subject from a different knowledge base. However, some specialties (for example surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology) appear from the search to be poorly catered for in terms of relevance to A&E practice. It may be that individual chapters in the larger A&E texts could be used to fill these apparent gaps in the literature.
We acknowledge the subjectivity of this list and content of each review. We also acknowledge that because of the inevitable delay between compiling and producing these reviews and the time to publication some of the editions included may not be the most current. Where newer editions are known to exist but time did not allow re-appraisal this is documented under the relevant title.
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Over a 10 month period, 25 A&E specialist registrars from the Yorkshire Deanery read and reviewed 72 books. The books were chosen by a number of methods and included those known to the …