Titles in the Pocket Tutor series offer practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with “on the go”. Their highly affordable price represents great value for individuals rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.

Topics reflect information needs from today’s integrated undergraduate and foundation courses:

• Common investigations (ECG, Chest X-Ray, etc.)
• Clinical skills (procedures, patient examination, etc.)
• Important and/or complex specialties in which students receive comparatively little dedicated training (psychiatry, renal medicine)

Key Points

• Highly affordable price and convenient pocket size format – fits in back pocket!
• Logical, sequential content: relevant basic science; understanding normal results and the building blocks of abnormal results; then clinical disorders
• Clinical disorders illustrated by a full-page chest radiograph with brief accompanying text on the facing page that clearly identifies the defining features of the X-Ray (in other words, what is it that makes this pneumothorax?)

The book Pocket Tutor Chest X-Ray Interpretation, authored by Ladli Chandratreya, Nicholas Maskell, Anthony Edey, and Michael Darby, fits seamlessly into this series. It is designed to be a valuable resource for any medical student or doctor in training who needs a quick and accessible reference guide for interpreting chest X-rays.