Case Files Family Medicine, Fifth Edition

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

A Doody''s Core Title for 2023 & 2024!

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

• NEW cases on musculoskeletal conditions, a topic emphasized on the Step 2 exam and national board exam

• Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like an experienced doctor