Joel John Heidelbaugh

Realistic patient cases help sharpen your critical thinking skills for your clerkship and the shelf examA 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 optionsReal-life family medicine cases with high-yield discussions aligned to clerkship guidelinesUSMLE-style review questions and clinical pearls accompany each casePrimer on how to approach clinical problems and think like an experienced doctor