Clinical cases in Internal medicine

Medical curricula have changed worldwide to reflect the changing roles of health systems and the challenges faced by graduating doctors. The advances in technology and the overwhelming increase in scientific and medical publications add to these challenges and the need to prepare our doctors at the best international standards and reassuring their continuing professional development. This book addresses these needs as a learning resource to be used by students and other recommended and prescribed resources and enables them to study 50 clinical cases and apply knowledge to clinically relevant topics in their undergraduate curriculum. Practising clinicians tend to use ‘schema’ in their reasoning to arrive at a diagnosis based on pattern recognition and previous experience. However, undergraduate students did not have sufficient experience and seeing patients in the wards may not be available for their clinical training. Furthermore, most hospitals are moving to minimally invasive techniques and one-day care and minimising the length of hospital stay with the new developments in diagnosis and patient management. These days there are changes in hospital admission because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes have affected bedside teaching worldwide and the need for alternative teaching/learning methods to address the students’ learning needs and enhance their clinical skills