The Nebraska Editing Team has added two more titles to their growing collection of academic texts.
“Precepting Medical Residents in the Office” (2006, Radcliffe Publishing) and “Taylor’s 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual” (2006, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) will be released for sale Oct. 1.
The Nebraska Team, made up of current and former UNMC faculty, includes Paul Paulman, M.D.; Audrey Paulman, M.D.; Jeffrey Harrison, M.D.; Jeffrey Susman, M.D.; and Kate Finkelstein, M.L.I.S.
“We call ourselves the Nebraska Team because when we started working together we were all living in Nebraska,” Dr. Paul Paulman said. “Since then Dr. Susman and Ms. Finkelstein have moved. But we are still going to collaborate on future projects together.”
These texts are among four books the team has collaborated on so far. Two more texts are in the works.
Besides the editing team (which also has included Robert Zatechka, M.D., a resident in the department of anesthesia and will include Laeth Nasir, M.D., with the department of family medicine), several UNMC faculty, residents and medical students have contributed chapters, sections and other materials to these texts.
Dr. Paulman made special note of work done by Sarah Bryan of the department of family medicine.
Bryan did a great job of putting together the material for the texts and also helped keep authors and editors on task, Dr. Paulman said.
The two previous texts the team authored are “Precepting Medical Students in the Office” (2000, Johns Hopkins University Press) and “Family Medicine Clerkship Guide” (2005, Mosby-Elsevier).
“‘Precepting Medical Residents’ is more of a teaching manual while the ’10-Minute Diagnosis’ book is a point of care medical reference manual,” Dr. Paulman said.
“Precepting Medical Residents” is written for private practice physicians and answers questions ranging from how much it costs to be a preceptor to how to do an evaluation.
“Most of the time the teaching between a preceptor and resident goes smoothly but if there were a question this book could provide answers,” Dr. Paulman said.
“Taylor’s 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual” is an update of the first edition and is designed to be a quick reference guide.
The book covers a wide range of topics from nervous-system issues to respiratory and dermatologic problems.
The chapters are broken down into segments, which provide background information on the topic, a definition, the pathophysiology, tips on evaluating the patient, potential tests and possible diagnosis. References are given at the end of each chapter segment for further reading.
“It’s impossible to know everything,” Dr. Paulman said. “This kind of book is useful for physicians and resident physicians practicing family medicine and internal medicine, for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as medical, nursing and physician assistant students.”
Since the first edition was released in 1999 there have been several changes in medicine that are reflected in the second edition, Dr. Paulman said.
Information about new lab techniques has been added while material focusing on older and outdated procedures was deleted, he said.
Both books will be available through Amazon.com and sell for $40.