to Clinical Surgery in the Surgical Clerkship Setting -- Perioperative Care of the Surgery Patient -- Practicing Evidence-Based Surgery -- Nutrition Support in the Surgery Patient -- Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders in the Surgery Patient -- Surgical Critical Care -- Principles of Infection: Prevention and Treatment -- Shock -- Surgical Bleeding and Hemostasis -- Bioethical Principles and Clinical Decision Making -- Clerkship Survival Skills: Speed Reading and Successful Examination Strategies -- Management of Surgical Diseases During the Clerkship -- Head and Neck Lesions -- Swallowing Difficulty and Pain -- Hemoptysis, Cough, and Pulmonary Lesions -- Heart Murmurs: Congenital Heart Disease -- Heart Murmurs: Acquired Heart Disease -- Acute and Chronic Chest Pain -- Stroke -- Surgical Hypertension -- Breast Disease -- Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Abdominal Pain -- Abdominal Masses: Solid Organs and Gastrointestinal -- Abdominal Masses: Vascular -- Jaundice -- Colon and Rectum -- Perianal Complaints -- Groin Hernias and Masses, and Abdominal Hernias -- The Ischemic Lower Extremity -- The Swollen Leg -- Skin and Soft Tissues -- Trauma Fundamentals -- Evaluation and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury -- Musculoskeletal Injuries -- Burns -- Principles of Perioperative Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient -- Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction -- Lower Urinary Tract Disorders -- Evaluation of Flank Pain -- Scrotal Disorders -- Transplantation of the Kidney -- Transplantation of the Pancreas -- Transplantation of the Liver.A symptom-based version of the critically-acclaimed Norton/Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, Learning Surgery provides a ready reference to those in third and fourth year residencies. Essential algorithms and case presentations meet with clerkship learning objectives as outlined by the Association of Surgical Education in their ASE Manual. Two sections include Introduction to Clinical Surgery in the Surgical Clerkship Setting and Management of Surgical Diseases During the Clerkship. Chapters include: Stroke, Hypertension, Abdominal Masses, Head Injuries, and Burns. Written by leading clinicians and educators, both surgery residents and medical students will find LEARNING SURGERY indispensible in their rotations and clerkships. Surgeons who train residents will also find the text a valuable ajunct to their teaching.