Crash Course: Muscles, Bones and Skin focuses on the essential information you really need to know about the basic sciences of muscles, bones and skin. Each component is considered in an integrated format, putting the basic sciences in clinical context. Provides the exam syllabus in one place! Written by senior medical students or junior doctors - authors who really understand today's exam situation! Senior Faculty Advisors ensure complete accuracy of the text! Full artwork programme, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, and 'Clinical Application' boxes help you remember the key points! Self-Assessment section - fully updated to reflect new curriculum requirements - helps you maximise your grade! Solid, accurate, user-friendly coverage provides enough detail even for those aiming at distinction! Crash Course - the revision aid to get you the results you want! Crash Course is a complete revision guide designed specifically to save you time by providing everything you could be asked in the exam in one place. Each book in the series has been specially written either by senior medical students or junior doctors - carefully supervised by faculty advisors - to ensure that it exactly matches your needs by having been prepared by someone who has just been in the exam situation. Fully updated with improved layout, this volume provides the essential concepts of muscle, bone and skin in a memorable, easy-to-understand format. Complex information is provided succinctly and is accompanied by a full artwork programme thereby giving ready access to these related subject areas. A discussion of common problems in rheumatology, orthopaedics and dermatology adds relevance to the underlying physiological concepts explored while clinical assessment and examination, common skills and further investigations complete the picture. Additional features include 'Learning Objectives' at the start of each chapter, improved 'Hints and Tips' boxes, 'Clinical Application' boxes and a completely revised self-assessment section tailored to current exam needs. Take the stress out of study with Crash Course - the easier way to achieve exam success!