Other Medicine, Medical Reference, Medical Test Preparation & Review, Internal Medicine
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Overview
All the essentials of internal medicine in an instant!
This concise, yet all-inclusive review is the perfect tool to prepare for primary certification and recertification exams, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its streamlined format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension -- making it indispensable for internal medicine residents, clerkship students, and busy practitioners.
FEATURES:
- Compact review of key board-type material that spans the entire spectrum of internal medicine
- Coverage that reflects the weighting of the ABIM exam and adheres to its blueprint--including interdisciplinary medicine, geriatrics, gender-specific health care problems, interpretation of the medical literature, and all major internal medicine subspecialities
- Insights from a team of leading academics and clinicians from the country's top medical schools
- Standardized, bulleted presentation that emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references
- Numerous clinical algorithms
- Chapter organization arranged by specialty
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)Description: This board review book uses the traditional approach of an organ-system review with some additional areas commonly included in the ABIM examination.
Purpose: The book presents the core information in a structured format, not intending to provide an in-depth discussion, but to focus on testable material. The objective is both clearly stated and accomplished. There are few extraneous words and because of this, the book is somewhat sterile in its presentation which makes it a bit difficult to read through.
Audience: This is definitely a "just-the-facts" review written for students and residents preparing for examinations. The contributors are mainly from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine faculty and are clearly authorities in their fields.
Features: The book is organized in a traditional organ-system manner, with each section divided into major diagnoses or problems of that system. There are the characteristic definitions, and summaries of pertinent physiology. The illustrations and photographs are black and white, which takes away somewhat from the book. The tables take some thought to extract the information. There are classic references that one would be expected to know for examination purposes.
Assessment: This has all the information that should be known but the presentation makes it a bit difficult to use. The lack of color and the format of the tables make the text less practical than most. However, the information is there and the book would make a great additional reference.
Book Details
Published
March 18, 2008
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.
ISBN
9780071593434