Though excellent review articles are available to fulfil this requirement, with the limited time available the postgraduate students cannot be expected to read 50–100 page review articles with over a hundred references each, and make comprehensive and concise summaries of the contents. This book attempts to fill this lacuna in the postgraduate medical education in physiology.
Basically, each chapter in the book is the latest review article on the subject but is presented in a textbook format. Information culled from scores of review articles and original articles has been distilled and condensed in approximately 10-page write up. Besides postgraduate students, members of faculty in physiology department would also find this book a simple path for updating their knowledge on the subject. The book has the hallmark of the author’s previous books in physiology, namely conciseness and simplicity of presentation. A large number of simple illustrations helps to clarify the text.
R. K. Marya, MD, PRD
Prof. R. K. Marya is currently Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Quest International University of Perak, Malaysia. He has over four decades of experience teaching physiology to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in India and abroad, including Iraq, Libya, Mauritius, and Malaysia.
He is a renowned researcher with approximately 100 publications in national and international journals of repute. He has received several awards for his research work and has supervised more than 30 postgraduate theses. Prof. Marya has also served on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology for many years.
Prof. Marya has been an examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in medical colleges across Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Internationally, he has served as an examiner at various medical universities in Iraq, Libya, and Mauritius. He has also been an examiner for the National Board of Examinations, India.
His extensive experience as a teacher, examiner, and researcher has given him deep insight into the subject of physiology, which culminated in the publication of this book in 2006. His other publications include Medical Physiology (3rd edition), Textbook of Physiology for Dental Students (3rd edition), and Learning Physiology through New Style MCQs.
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