Internal Medicine Essentials For Students

Like its best-selling predecessor, this invaluable guide demonstrates to students how to care for patients, prepare for clinical rounds, and study for the end of rotation examination. Organized around the major training areas included in the nationally recognized Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Guide, IM Essentials contains 10% more content than the second edition, over 250 additional differential diagnosis tables and treatment algorithms, and over 70 color plates. Its usefulness is enhanced by links to over 460 pages of online materials, including new clinical photographs, tables, screening tools, and other instruments. To further enrich your learning, each chapter of IM Essentials is fully integrated with its companion volume, MKSAP for Students 5, which features more than 450 self-assessment questions. IM Essentials contains content that can answer all the questions in MKSAP for Students 5. Features: * Covers the common problems and disorders a student is likely to encounter * 10% more content * Over 250 additioanl differential diagnosis tables and treatment algorithms * Over 70 color plates * Enhanced with over 460 pages of online materials * A unique resource that provides medical students with the skills they need to enhance learning during the third-year internal medicine clerkship

A collaboration of the American College of Physicians and the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, this new edition was written by authors who helped design the internal medicine curriculum and who are actively involved in teaching students on the Internal Medicine clerkship. Prepare for internal medicine clinical rounds and the end-of-rotation exam with the fully revised and updated Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2! This new edition is organized around the major training areas included in the nationally recognized Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Guide

Written by Nicholas J Talley, Simon O’Connor and Brad Frankum, this engaging and instructive text provides practical pathways to diagnosis and up-to-date strategies for implementing evidence-based treatments for prevalent conditions. Learn how to: identify what is clinically important understand and investigate disease create an effective strategy for treatment use technological diagnostic tools. This new edition of Essentials of Internal Medicine 4e describes established and trusted diagnostic techniques to equip students and trainees with the skills to succeed in their profession. The visually dynamic text offers a framework of knowledge covering core facts and addressing difficult-to-master topics such as: holistic approach to patient treatment the importance of diagnosis the physician's role in public health the physician as scholar. Contributions from expert clinicians leading the advancement of medicine globally Need-to-know ‘clinical pearls’ throughout each chapter Memory jog lists and tables Multiple choice questions with end-of-chapter answers and extensive explanations Enhanced eBook version included with purchase

This updated Second Edition remains an authoritative, comprehensive re source for medical students and residents of internal medicine. Includ ed in this "essential" reference from Kelley's Textbook of Internal Me dicine, Fourth Edition is a condensed version of "Rapid Access." Prepa red by a new editorial board, its approach to patient evaluation and c are is through diagnosis and management. Divided by organ systems, pat hogenesis, differential diagnosis and common clinical presentations ar e discussed in an informative, clear way. Algorithms, diagrams and tab les are also featured supporting the concise summaries. This new editi on provides an instrumental compendium deemed appropriate for every me dical student and resident.

Designed for medical students on their clerkship rotation, this new edition of MKSAP for Students 4 includes more than 400 new, patient-centered self-assessment questions and answers, focused on important internal medicine information from the Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Guides Training Problems. The accompanying CD-ROM automatically tracks progress, assesses areas for further focus, enables category-based and random question ordering, and links directly to PubMed.

Mini Kumar & Clark goes into its fifth edition! New to this best-selling, portable, quick reference to clinical medicine: Fully updated in line with the latest edition of Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine New chapter on malignant disease Practical procedures and therapeutics taken into individual chapters as appropriate. From reviews of the previous edition: ‘This really is an excellent medical textbook ... Easily covers undergraduate medicine.’ ‘Pocket Essentials is a great little book to review the night before you start on a rotation. It is small enough that you can easily read over the chapter and then appear on the ward with a good idea of what is going on.’ ‘In short this book is concise, succinct and gets straight to the point.’ ‘This book summarises everything you need to know: causes, diagnoses and treatments.’ ‘I am finding this book very helpful and more importantly very concise. It has most things you need to know about common clinical pathologies.’ ‘... I turned to Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine as my clinical medicine reference guide – and what a guide! An excellent book, which gives you the clinical features, investigations and management for a whole variety of different illnesses. The book is clearly laid out, and even has normal blood chemistry values at the end. Do yourself a favour and buy this book!’ ‘This mini paperback is a must for anyone studying medicine. It gives all the information one would need and all without the pain of carrying around a large book.’ ‘I liked this book ... it was useful having a smaller reference book ... to carry around on wards etc. – it's more digestible and easier to follow than big K&C, and gives a little more background than the Oxford Handbook – and I know people who use it to revise for finals.’

Like its best-selling predecessor, the fifth edition of this popular series contains over 450 multiple-choice questions, updated references, color photographs and ECG tracings. MKSAP for Students is intended for third-year students participating in their required internal medicine clerkship and for fourth-year students on an advanced medicine clerkship. All questions are formatted as clinical vignettes that resemble the types of questions students encounter on the examination at the end of the clerkship and on the USMLE licensing examination. Each question has a detailed answer critique that identifies the correct answer, an explanation of why that answer is correct and the other options are incorrect, an educational objective and a short bibliography. Succinct Key Points summarize the important take home messages for each question. MKSAP for Students 5 is supported by its companion textbook, Internal Medicine Essentials for Students. All questions in MKSAP for Students are associated with relevant content in the Essentials textbook that can directly answer the question. Features: * Covers the common problems and disorders a student is likely to encounter * Over 450 NEW multiple-choice questions * Updated references, color photographs, and ECG Tracings * Questions formatted as clinical vignettes to resemble the types of questions on the examination * Key points to summarize important information for each question