Advances in Pediatrics, 1st Edition

By Carol D. Berkowitz, MD, Surendra Varma, MD, Moira Szilagyi, Edward M. Barksdale, Jr., MD, Jane Carver, PhD, MS, MPH and Leslie L. Barton, MD

ISBN: 9780323643061

Pub Date: 17 August 2018

Reviewed by: Joseph Hageman, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)

Description

This is volume 65 of a series that collects articles in pediatrics. Each volume is a new group of review articles on topics of current interest.

Purpose

The primary purpose is to update pediatric providers on topics of current interest in pediatrics. This objective is definitely worthy, and I say this as the editor in chief of a pediatric journal with the same objective. These authors and contributors definitely meet their objectives with this excellent group of articles.

Audience

The series is written for pediatric providers which would include pediatricians, fellows, and pediatric residents, as well as family medicine practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants at the trainee and attending level.

Features

This series of up-to-date, state-of-the-art articles covers a variety of topics of current interest for pediatric providers, from identifying and working through feelings of burnout, global pediatric health, and point-of-care ultrasound, to learning more about molecular testing for central nervous system infections. I have enlisted authors to write about almost all of these topics for the journal for which I am the editor. The articles are well written, and the charts, tables, figures, and references are well done.

Assessment

I have been reading these volumes since I was a pediatric resident 40 years ago. I have always enjoyed the articles and learned a lot from them. There are a number of publications, books and journals, that have a similar basic mission (Pediatric Annals, Current Problems in Pediatrics, Yearbook of Pediatrics, Pediatric Clinics of North America). This volume accomplishes its mission with an excellent collection of articles on topics of current interest for pediatric providers.

Doody’s Review Service Weighted Numerical Score: 98- 5 Stars