Eureka – an innovative series for students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.

Eureka – an innovative series for students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.

Eureka – content that reflects today’s medical degree courses with their emphasis on:

• relevance and application of core science to clinical practice


• skills required to examine and communicate with patients


• integrated care across primary and acute care settings

Eureka – 15 clinical titles, 5 science titles:

• Clinical titles – disease-based, clinical cases, system-specific core science


• Science titles – bedrock biomedical principles, clinical cases

Series features across titles:

• Engaging clinical cases show how skilled clinician would work through a presentation, and put diseases and biomedical principles into patient context


• Innovative graphic narratives bring clinical cases to life, show how to approach difficult scenarios and convey the experience of being a patient


• Starter questions - stimulating answers to intriguing questions make learning fun 


• Boxes highlight tips, tricks and key learning points

Biochemistry & Metabolism

• First principles chapter clearly explains the key concepts and mechanisms relevant to the study of medicine e.g. types of biochemical reaction, enzymes and cofactors


• Systems-based chapters describe the structures such as proteins and fats and processes such as haemoglobin metabolism that underpin normal functions, each chapter introduced by an engaging clinical case that features a unique graphic narrative


• Self-Assessment – 80 multiple choice questions in clinical SBA format, in line with current exam format

Ch01 First principles

Ch02 Nucleic acids

Ch03 Proteins

Ch04 Carbohydrate

Ch05 Lipids

Ch06 Haemoglobin metabolism

Ch07 Body fluid homeostasis

Ch08 Nutrition

Ch09 Self-assessment