Morning Report: Internal Medicine - Softcover

Archer, Thomas P.; Etc.; Young, John; Mazzaferri, Ernest L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070066922 ISBN 13: 9780070066922

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 2000

Synopsis

Exciting new text captures the candor, energy, and immediacy of the "morning report" experience. Each clinical case includes: a teaser question to provoke critical thinking, findings from the patient history, physical examination data, relevant lab values, related imaging and pathology information and more. The emphasis on critical decision making makes this a" must have" for residents or senior medical students.

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From the Back Cover:

50 challenging cases to test your diagnostic skills. The "morning report," one of the most interesting events of the day at a teaching hospital, is the forum where challenging new cases are presented and discussed. This exciting new resource captures a real morning report as it happens. You'll sit in on a morning report at a renowned teaching hospital...listen as residents present their patients as unknowns, with relevant diagnostic information...and hear housestaff, the department chairperson, and other leading faculty strive toward correct diagnosis. Morning Report: Internal Medicine, based on 50 actual cases presented at the Ohio State University Medical Center, is designed to hone your abilities to diagnose. Representing both unusual and common diseases, each case: provokes thinking with a question on an intriguing feature of the case; challenges diagnostic know-how with physical examination findings, laboratory reports, and a diagnostic profile; inspires a spirited exchange of views; reveals the correct diagnosis; points to important pathophysiologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic features of the disease with discussion, pictures, and tables; provides 5 to 7 take-home "pearls" highlighting important and little-known features of each disease process. Morning Report takes you inside the diagnostic process in internal medicine and gives you a learning experience that you can immediately apply to your work. Rely on it to refine your diagnostic skills and prepare for in-service and board exams.

Synopsis:

Case-based format in the style of the morning report daily regimen in hospitals, where interesting cases are reviewed and discussed for their teaching value. Emphasis is on internal medicine conditions, both common and rare. Each case includes questions to provoke critical thinking and findings from patient's medical, family and social history.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0070066922
• ISBN 13: 9780070066922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240