Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine, Ninth Edition

The ninth edition of this best-selling textbook of clinical medicine builds even further on its formidable, prize-winning formula of excellence, comprehensiveness, and accessibility.

‘This book is stunning in its breadth and ease of use. It still remains the “gold standard” and thorough guide to clinical medicine that its forefathers were.’ BMA Medical Book Awards judges

New to this edition:

• 2 new chapters: Global Health and Women’s Health
• 25 new authors.
• A new online editor, Adam Feather, teamed up with a team of young doctors to augment the e-book, which accompanies the print book, with clinical tips, key learning points, drug tips, learning challenges, case studies, and MCQs.
• Full text redesign to incorporate:

New system overview diagrams for clinical chapters

New colored headings to help identify content relating to disease, management, investigations, etc.

New icons to aid text navigation

11 new members and a new co-editor, Senaka Rajapakse, of the International Advisory Board

Edited by Kumar and Clark, clinicians and educators of world-renowned expertise.

Authors comprise consultants at the top of their fields, paired with younger doctors closer to the exam experience, to ensure authority and relevance.

An enhanced e-book accompanies the print book for ease of transportation and use on the move.

The International Advisory Board, led by Professor Janaka de Silva and Professor Senaka Rajapakse, provides guidance for global coverage from across the world.

Contributions to the e-book by members of the International Advisory Board to amplify areas of clinical importance in their parts of the world

2 new chapters

• Women’s health
• Global health

25 new young consultant authors teamed with clinicians at the top of their careers to ensure the text is accessible for students and trainees.

A new role of online editor Adam Feather and his team of young doctors have created (in the e-book) a host of embedded features, including chapter summaries, key-point boxes, self-assessment, top tips, extra content (videos and images), and more. They have focused on enabling more inexperienced learners to interpret the details, navigate the content effectively, and get the most from the text.

A new co-editor for the International Advisory Board is Professor Senaka Rajapakse from the University of Colombo.

11 new members of the International Advisory Board

9 new online international articles, including:

• Ebola
• Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever
• Visceral Leishmaniasis

New features

Full text re-design

• New diagrammatic anatomy and physiology overviews at the beginning of clinical systems chapters
• colored headings to help distinguish sciences, procedures, etc.
• New icons to aid text navigation
• Divided into three sections for greater ease of navigation:

• • Good medical practice
  • Clinical Sciences
  • Clinical Practice

Bigger chapters are unbundled into smaller chapters for ease of access.

• Clinical pharmacy is now separate from poisoning.
• STIs and HIV are now separate from infectious diseases.
• Biliary tract and pancreatic disease now separate from liver
• Rheumatic disease is now separate from bone disease.
• Lipid and metabolic diseases are now separate from diabetes mellitus.

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