Frameworks for Internal Medicine / Edition 1

by Andre Mansoor

Overview

Introducing an innovative, systematic approach to understanding differential diagnosis, Frameworks for Internal Medicine helps students and other learners think like clinicians and master the methodology behind diagnosing the most commonly encountered conditions in internal medicine.

This highly visual resource uses a case-based, Q&A-style format to build frameworks that guide learners through each step in the differential diagnosis process. These unique frameworks not only equip learners for success during internal medicine clerkships, rotations, and residencies, but also help ensure more confident differential diagnoses in clinical settings.

• An innovative framework system presents an organized, logical approach to differential diagnosis unlike any other resource.
• A straightforward, case-based, Q&A-style format guides learners through the differential diagnosis step-by-step, teaching clinical pearls along the way.
• Cases in each chapter launch discussions of 50 of the most commonly encountered clinical problems in the field of internal medicine.
• Detailed introduction and robust appendix equip resident educators with valuable teaching assistance.
• Completed Frameworks included on line in a digital format provide an ideal mobile reference for students and residents on wards.
• eBook available for purchase. Fast, smart, and convenient, today’s eBooks can transform learning. These interactive, fully searchable tools offer 24/7 access on multiple devices, the ability to highlight and share notes, and more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496359308
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	11/22/2018
Edition description:	First
Pages:	768
Sales rank:	461,390
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description: This is a memory aid for physicians in training to remember the differential diagnoses associated with medical conditions.
Purpose: The author relates the difficulty students and residents had during the morning report while in training when they were asked to consider questions of what else could this be. This book presents a framework for how to consider the other conditions in the differential diagnosis. As this exercise is a step beyond the usual history and physical examination, it is a very necessary step in training programs.
Audience: The audience is those in training programs, but the book also serves as a reference for experienced clinicians who may find themselves considering a difficult atypical set of symptoms and wish they had a memory aid to help them expand the differential options.
Features: The print version is divided into the traditional organ systems. Each chapter is divided into topics such as bradycardia, heart failure with preserved ventricular systolic function, primary hypothyroidism. These sections are presented in a question-and-answer format based on the framework for the topic and start with an illustrative case history. In many areas the framework is broken into its individual segments with an explanation of how the physiology defines the framework. There are a number of relevant figures, black-and-white photographs and drawings, key points to remember, and references.
Assessment: As a memory aid that breaks down the components of the differential diagnosis for physicians in training, this is very useful as it focuses on why and how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. It is one of the few books that addresses the differential diagnosis concept and for that reason is a valuable addition to a resident training program.

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