After a few weeks of clinical practice, most medical students and residents realize that there is a significant difference between what they read in the textbooks and what they see in the hospital wards and clinics every day. Somehow, the patients are different from their disease description in the books. As one experienced physician put it succinctly: "his CHF did not read the book." How to bridge this gap between theory and practice? Our answer was to create a case-based curriculum of clinical medicine. It is an attempt to reveal what the real medicine looks like and to prepare the mind of the life-long learners that all health workers should be.ClinicalCases.org is a free online case-based curriculum of clinical medicine which was featured in the British Medical Journal and Medscape.com, and was referenced several times in the medical education literature. The project is hyperlinked in the web sites of 16 medical schools in the U.S., Canada and Europe.This case-based curriculum was started by physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (St. Vincent/St. Luke) Internal Medicine Residency Program for the purpose of medical education. Please read the web site disclaimer below.
http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/
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