Book excerpt: Like its best-selling predecessor, this invaluable guide demonstrates to students how to care for patients, prepare for clinical rounds, and study for the end of rotation examination. Organized around the major training areas included in the nationally recognized Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum Guide, IM Essentials contains 10% more content than the second edition, over 250 additional differential diagnosis tables and treatment algorithms, and over 70 color plates. Its usefulness is enhanced by links to over 460 pages of online materials, including new clinical photographs, tables, screening tools, and other instruments. To further enrich your learning, each chapter of IM Essentials is fully integrated with its companion volume, MKSAP for Students 5, which features more than 450 self-assessment questions. IM Essentials contains content that can answer all the questions in MKSAP for Students 5. Features: * Covers the common problems and disorders a student is likely to encounter * 10% more content * Over 250 additioanl differential diagnosis tables and treatment algorithms * Over 70 color plates * Enhanced with over 460 pages of online materials * A unique resource that provides medical students with the skills they need to enhance learning during the third-year internal medicine clerkship