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Kochar's Clinical Medicine For Students - FREE DOWNLOAD (CHM Version)
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Kochar's Clinical Medicine For Students - 5th Edition
AUTHORS :
Torre, Dario M.
Lamb, Geoffrey C
Van Ruiswyk, Jerome J
Schapira, Ralph M.
SUMMARY :
The acquisition of knowledge is essential to creating diagnostic hypotheses and achieving a solution to the patient's clinical problem. With that in mind, we have developed the 5th edition of Kochar's Clinical Medicine for Students to link theoretical information more closely to the practice of medicine. Although direct patient experience is an irreplaceable way to develop the practice of medicine and patient care, theoretical knowledge is still an essential component of the learning process. Formal knowledge, which can be acquired from a book, serves as the basis for the application of knowledge in the context of the clinical practice, allowing the student to continuously learn from their experiences.
This edition of Kochar's has undergone major changes and a significant transformation to meet the current needs of students in the health professions, in particular the needs of medical students in their third and forth years of medical school.
The conceptual framework behind the development of this book was based on the ADDIE instructional model: Assessment of the learners' needs, Development, Demonstration, Implementation, and Evaluation of each section of the book. This process occurred constantly throughout the manuscript process, to ensure the creation of a text that was centered on the actual needs of the student.
The 5th edition has been substantially revised, reorganized, and updated. Because the duration of courses or clerkships in medical schools is restricted, we decided to include only a selected number of key topics, which were chosen from two sources: Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) core medicine clerkship curriculum guide, created by a national consensus of clerkship directors and academic general internists from the Society of General Internal Medicine (http://www.im.org/CDIM), and from USMLEโ„ข Step II Clinical Knowledge (CK) content outline (www.usmle.org).
We also recognized that it was important not only for students to learn the typical presentation and diagnosis of common diseases, but also to recognize patients presenting with a specific complaint or finding, for which the generation of diagnostic hypotheses and their evaluation is essential. Finally, it was important to introduce a brief ambulatory medicine section to correspond to the ambulatory component included in many medicine clerkships.
Another innovation of this edition is the collaborative effort between general internists and subspecialists; every chapter was written and reviewed by both groups. We believe that this cooperation will ensure accuracy, readability, and a more appropriate depth of content for medical students. In particular, the depth and relevance of content and the language used throughout the book were specifically revised. Additionally, 3rd and 4th year medical students acting as reviewers were involved in the development of the book from the beginning. Their feedback was most helpful, and their comments and suggestions were incorporated into the editing process.
The organization and presentation of the material is divided into three sections: the diagnostic and clinical approach to common presenting complaints with particular attention to elements of the differential diagnosis; disease and disorders frequently encountered in medicine, formally described in a logical and structured manner; and principles of ambulatory medicine. This organization of content yields a broad, yet still selective, number of topics and approaches in inpatient and outpatient settings. We have organized the material so that it will make sense to 3rd year medical students who need to gain an understanding and knowledge of medicine, and to 4th year medical students who want to further their knowledge for clinical problem solving as well as prepare for the USMLEโ„ข Step II Clinical Knowledge exam. We also intend this book to be a resource for nurse practitioners and physician assistants who would like to review in a rapid and concise manner a number of medicine topics.
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