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Kumar & Clark's Cases in Clinical Medicine, 5th Edition

Authors :
Philip Xiu & Nicholas Aveyard
Date of Publication: 04/2025
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This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning. The cases cover a wide range of acute sy ...view more
This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning.

The cases cover a wide range of acute symptoms and conditions encountered in medicine, with clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The level of detail is ideal for exam revision as well as to support junior doctors and other healthcare professionals on the wards.

Now in its fifth edition, this latest Kumar & Clark has been fully updated by new editors who bring a wealth of clinical experience as well as a recent junior doctor perspective to this highly useful book.
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This award-winning book provides a comprehensive collection of over 200 real-life clinical cases designed to support clinical reasoning and enhance diagnostic and management skills through case-based learning.

The cases cover a wide range of acute symptoms and conditions encountered in medicine, with clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The level of detail is ideal for exam revision as well as to support junior doctors and other healthcare professionals on the wards.

Now in its fifth edition, this latest Kumar & Clark has been fully updated by new editors who bring a wealth of clinical experience as well as a recent junior doctor perspective to this highly useful book.

New to this edition
  • New sections on palliative care, ophthalmology, and metabolic bone diseases
  • Expanded dermatology chapter
  • Fully updated and aligned to latest guidelines

Key Features
  • More than 200 clinical cases covering various acute symptoms and conditions
  • Includes the most common MLA conditions
  • Concise, relevant, and fully updated with evidence-based information and the latest guidelines
  • Clear advice on immediate and further management, complications, differential diagnoses, history-taking, tips, pitfalls, alerts, investigations, and prioritisation
  • Key points reinforced through ‘Remember’, ‘Investigations’ and ‘Information’ boxes
  • High-quality diagrams, tables, and photographs throughout
  • An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Author Information
By Philip Xiu, MA (Cantab) MB BChir MRCP MRCGP MScClinEd FHEA MAcadMEd RCPathME, GP Registrar, Yorkshire Deanery, Leeds, UK. and Nicholas Aveyard, BM BCh MA(Oxon), Anaesthetic Registrar - Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow – University of Exeter