Kochar’s Clinical Medicine for Students
Kochar’s Clinical Medicine for Students Books
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Substantially revised, reorganized, and updated for its Fifth Edition, this concise textbook is ideal for medical students in internal medicine clinical clerkships. This edition’s content reflects current guidelines from the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners on topics necessary for this rotation. 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; diseases and disorders frequently encountered in medicine, formally described in a logical and structured manner; and principles of ambulatory medicine.
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This book is probably the best resource available for the medicine clerkship. It is concise and well written. It is divided up into three sections. The first is a discussion of 26 of the most common presentations that perfectly illustrates how to place together your differential diagnosis. This first section I found was extremely helpful when seeing patients on wards or in clinic for the first time. It helped me question the aptly questions to patients in order to come of with the most likely diagnoses. It is also remarkably helpful for the shelf exam since maybe 40% of the vignettes deal with these presentations. The second section discusses specific diseases in more detail. Again, these are very well written, with many helpful tables. Near every chapter has flowcharts for the management of patients with that particular disease. Since there are many “best next step” questions on the shelf exam, this is very helpful. The last section discusses common topics in ambulatory medicine, such as low back pain, dyslipidemias, and screening and prevention topics. This is very helpful as well since there are everlastingly a handful of questions on screening and prevention. Online, there are 34 additional chapters, most of which are helpful enough (i.e. likely to appear on the shelf exam) for you to read. There are also a few videos, EKGs and CXRs with explanations of significant findings.
As you can see, there is a ton of stuff this book offers, but really none of it is beyond the scope of what may possibly appear on the shelf exam. Except for the few chapters on psychiatric issues, this book was clearly written to help students like myself not just pass, but ace, the shelf exam. And it excels.
I preferred this book to Step-Up to Medicine (Step-Up Run), the most well loved choice for medicine clerkship. Observably people like that book, but I found the outline format too bothersome and prefer prose when delving into a topic for the first time. Step Up’s in rank on diagnosing and administration conditions may possibly use some work as well. For example, below the “diagnosis” section of many diseases, it would give a laundry list of findings for every diagnostic method below the sun without stating the test of choice. Very annoying.
Another well loved book is Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2. This is from the ACP and is certainly the most authoritative book written for clerkship students. The problem is that it only covers the bare essentials. I really did read a few chapters and found them to be a quick recap after already learning of the topic in hand. If you sought after to use this, I would urge reading the apt chapters after having read the material in another book like Kochar’s.
I read most but not all of the material in this book (I didn’t find out about this book until a few weeks into the clerkship). I also did MKSAP For Students 4 (MKSAP for Students,Alguire) and got through maybe half of the internal medicine questions on USMLEWORLD. I just took the shelf exam today and felt like I was well prepared for it and would urge this book and the mentioned question banks to anyone who sought after to do well on this clerkship.
Rating: 5 / 5