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Case Files Internal Medicine, Third Edition (LANGE Case Files)

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Learning through cases and vignettes is the backbone of this book, and it's a good way to learn key information about common diseases in internal medicine. Each section starts with a case and is followed by a discussion on the important features of the disease. It can't take the place of a larger medicine text but is a good companion and review for shelf exam. Definitely a good resource.

This book has been the best book I've used on the floors so far. The cases are concise and contain the key pearls of information you need to know on the floors. Moreover they are introduced in the style of a typical case presentation of a given problem. The different cases are organized into 60 major topics that are relevant to internal medicine. I've found just reading one or two cases a day on my medicine rotation an excellent aid to help me pick up information that I normally might miss in rounds, or by the mere fact that 3 months is just too short of a time to see everything you'll see on the test. I highly recommend this book as a study aid, in addition to MKSAP questions.

For people who retain better through cases and paragraph format, Case Files can be a very helpful supplement to your main study guide for internal medicine. The cases are very relevant and cover the basic pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of a particular topic. I find the case/paragraph format and presentation of information to be very helpful in retaining information not only for the SHELF, but also for your actual rotation. The cases are short, easy to read, but full of pertinent and up to date information. This is the type of book you can read for 15 minutes and still get something out of, which may or may not be the case with main study guides.

Really good for case reviews. Not as detailed information as you'll see in, for example, Step Up to Medicine. But great for getting a quick general idea of how to handle different presentations and also great when you feel like if you have to memorize 1 more page of bulleted information you might just scratch your eyes out or beat your head against the wall (or maybe you could just cut back on the caffeine but then how'd we get through medical school?!). I recommend this book.

Looking back on my internal medicine rotation (Jan/Feb 2010),I found this book to be the most helpful source of information with respect to the shelf exam.

I don't believe that it contains all of the information that you need to know, or for that matter, should know for your future. I do believe that it takes the critical concepts of diagnosis and management that you need for the shelf exam, and that you need to build a foundation on in further studies.

I used this text during the final week of my rotation, as a study guide for the shelf. Previously in the rotation I had read Step-up To Medicine once through. This book, used properly, allows for practice in the type of questions you'll be asked on the shelf. I also found that with 55 cases, every major disease that I was asked about was covered in this text in sufficient detail to answer the questions. Gives you the amount of information you'd need to know in the real world to speak intelligently with someone about a disease and it's treatment.

Worth every penny and then some as both a study guide and a quick read to refresh your knowledge base at any time.

Don't look further more for this kind of books on the market. This is the best book on cases. The price is also really reasonable. I observe that many books especially for USMLE are set at rather high price. Buy this one believe me!!!!

This didnt do me any favors on the IM shelf, but is helpful supplement if all you do is in-hospital IM. Good for FM in general, but not great for testing purposes. I'd say Step up to medicine is the best reference of study minus some of the errors.

The book was delivered promptly in very good condition. So far, I'm about halfway through it. It is very helpful in approaching topics from a clinical perspective and not strictly academic, as lots of other resources are wont to do. It also helps that the cases with the subsequent analysis are brief and straight to the point so that one can glean through the cases without too much trouble. However, I would not recommend it as a stand alone book; it is just a useful supplemnt

Perfect mix of questions, examples , and content to compliment your other medicine review material. I used this along with fist aid and the usmle questions in my prep for the shelf exam and I wouldn't change a thing.

This book is the best of all of the case files books (all of which I own). It is a really good supplementary text to Step Up because it's a faster read but hits on all the important topics you need to know for medicine rotation and for the shelf as well. I used this, MKSAP and Step Up for the medicine shelf and did very well. The book does a very nice job of summarizing all the key points in diagnosis, work up, and management of relevant IM diseases and is pretty thorough. One of the most important things about this book is that it is an incredibly manageable length and you can easily spend 15-30 minutes reading 2-4 cases a day and finish it by the end of the rotation, especially on a rotation like medicine where the hours are long and study time can be hard to come by depending on how busy your hospital is. I don't feel that it's adequate as a stand alone, you definitely need to FINISH MKSAP and read step up as well (I personally did not finish step up before the medicine shelf, but I finished this book and MKSAP), but I think for the medicine shelf these three books have a wonderful synergy together that a lot of other shelf exams don't have.