Kumar & Clark's Cases in Clinical Medicine
- 5th Edition - April 1, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Philip Xiu, Nicholas Aveyard
- Language: English
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… Read more
Purchase options
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.
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.
- 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
Medical Students/ Trainees
1. Emergency Medicine and Toxicology
2. Cardiology
3. Respiratory Disorders
4. Gastroenterology
5. Liver and Biliary Tract Disorders
6. Kidney and Urinary Tract Disease
7. Neurologia
8. Psychiatry
9. Rheumatology and Bone Disease
10. Endocrinology and Diabetes
11. Haematology and Oncology
12. Dermatology
13. Infectious Diseases
14. Sexually Transmitted Infections
15. Care of the Elderly and Palliative Care
- Edition: 5
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2025
- Language: English
PX
Philip Xiu
Philip Xiu a GP Registrar, Yorkshire Deanery, Leeds, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Senior Lecturer Leeds University School of Medicine PCN Educational Lead Medical Examiner Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust Leeds, UKNA
Nicholas Aveyard
Nicholas Aveyard is Anaesthetic Registrar, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Exeter.
Affiliations and expertise
Anaesthetic Registrar, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Exeter, UK