Case Files Family Medicine 5th edition

by Joel John Heidelbaugh, Donald Briscoe, Eugene C. Toy, Bruce S. Britton

Overview

Realistic patient cases help sharpen your critical thinking skills for your clerkship and the shelf exam

A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023!

Case Files: Family Medicine presents realistic clinical scenarios to enhance and hone your clinical decision-making skills. Sixty high-yield cases illustrate essential concepts in patient care. Each case begins with a vignette accompanied by relevant open-ended questions designed to teach diagnostic or therapeutic approaches relevant to family medicine. The answers that follow emphasize mechanisms and underlying principles.

This edition features a new format with bulleted summaries, shorter paragraphs, and clearer headings.

• Realistic cases are accompanied by questions that encourage you to think through the differential diagnosis and treatment options
• Real-life family medicine cases with high-yield discussions aligned to clerkship guidelines
• USMLE-style review questions and clinical pearls accompany each case
• Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like an experienced doctor

  
  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260468595
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/06/2020
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Joel John Heidelbaugh, MD, FAAFP, FACG
Associate Professor
Departments of Family Medicine and Urology
Ypsilanti Health Center
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Donald A. Briscoe, MD is Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program sponsored by The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Eugene C. Toy, MD, is The John S. Dunn Senior Academic Chair and Program Director, The Methodist Hospital Ob/Gyn Residency Program; Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Methodist Hospital; and Associate Clinical Professor and Clerkship Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

Donald Briscoe, MD, FAAFP, is Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, The Methodist Hospital, and Medical Director, Houston Community Health Centers, Inc.

Bruce Britton, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor and Family Medicine Clerkship Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Joel J. Heidelbaugh, MD, FAAFP, FACG, is Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Urology, and Clerkship Director, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School


Bruce S. Britton, MD is Clinical Associate Professor and Family Medicine Clerkship Director at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Portsmouth, Virginia.