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Bioengineering Human Tissue and Organ Models

Tissue engineering, and the overlapping field of regenerative medicine, are rapidly growing areas of innovation, research and development. This student friendly textbook provides an overview of the current human tissue models available,current methods and recent technical advancements.

Each chapter focuses on a specific organ or tissue model and is written by experts at the cutting-edge of research and discovery.

As well as clinical applications, the potential use of 3D engineering tissue models to replace animal models is a key driver of current research. This textbook compares these models and their use in drug testing and disease modelling to provide students with an understanding of the benefits of using bioengineered samples.

A Guide to Performing Systematic Reviews of Health and Disease

This practical guide to performing systematic reviews in a healthcare context provides a step-by-step approach for students and health professionals. Using free, opensource software to extract data and perform the necessary meta-analyses, this guide navigates the process of reviews, from study design and randomised controlled trials to interpreting results and reporting your findings.

Each chapter includes an overview, learning outcomes and practice questions. Aimed particularly at those who do not have an extensive statistical background, it will help enable you to confidently perform high quality systematic reviews.

Generalism in Clinical Practice and Education

Generalism is a key approach to healthcare organisation and delivery that enables person-centred, dynamic and cost-effective patient care. With its emphasis on adaptability, generalism requires expansive, nurturing and personalised approaches to clinical education in which a generalist attends to and explores patient priorities when problem-setting and co-creating management plans.

Generalism in Clinical Practice and Education outlines a generalist philosophy of practice which is brought to life through interleaved examples. Written by a range of international clinicians, patients and academics, this book does not prescribe one ‘right’ way to do generalism. Rather, it seeks to inspire readers’ future engagement with generalism in practice and learning through sharing underpinning concepts, values and principles. This ‘big picture’ attention to generalism across public health, social determinants of health and clinical care is at the heart of sustainable and efficient use of resources to prioritise those in need. The book explores four key principles which in practice aim to achieve creative, inclusive and agile approaches to clinical care. The goal is to support generalism in clinical practice and education, and to produce clinical practitioners and learners that enjoy, embrace and enhance future clinical care.