Internal Medicine Clerkship Guide

By Douglas S. Paauw MD

Here's all the help you need to survive your internal medicine clerkship This handy guide offers you practical, must-have guidance on the causes, clinical evaluation, and treatment of common medical conditions-knowledge that every student can and should master. Section 1 outlines the practical skills and procedures you must know on rotation; Sections 2 and 3 describe health conditions organized by presentation (symptom, sign, abnormal lab value) and by specific diagnosis, allowing you to approach a given health problem from either direction.Organizes material according to the types of questions that you will typically ask during the clerkship.
Uses Learning Objectives and Key Points boxes to make complex data easier to remember.
Provides Cases to illustrate the types of clinical scenarios you may experience.
Includes a multiple-choice exam at the end of the book to help you prepare for clinical exams.Offers updates throughout to incorporate the latest knowledge and practices in internal medicine.
Provides complete rationales for all of the answers in the practice exam for increased learning.
Features a new easier-to-read design with a better organization for more efficient study.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323045588
• ISBN13: 9780323045582
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 651 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good for outpatient and inpatient medicine

I found this book to be a great study resource for my ambulatory medicine clerkship. It goes over bread and butter things you will see in outpatient clinic, differential diagnoses, and guidelines for workups. It is also a good resource for inpatient medicine, with a lot of "must not miss" tips and tidbits, again complete with how you work up patients presenting with certain symptoms and diagnoses and important treatments. Its also a quick read and well organized. The first part of the book is organized based on symptoms (e.g. chest pain, dyspepsia), which is great for outpatient medicine. And the second part of the books is organized by system (e.g. cardiovascular, nephrology) and gives more in depth info on how to diagnose conditions and treatments. Each chapter has a couple of cases at the end to help synthesize information learned. There is also a test at the end that I used to study for my ambulatory shelf. It was the only book I needed for ambulatory, but should probably be supplemented for inpatient medicine.