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Realistic patient cases help sharpen your critical thinking skills for your clerkship and the shelf exam A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023! Case Files: Family Medicine presents realistic clinical scenarios to enhance and hone your clinical decision-making skills. Sixty high-yield cases illustrate essential concepts in patient care. Each case begins with a vignette accompanied by relevant open-ended questions designed to teach diagnostic or therapeutic approaches relevant to family medicine. The answers that follow emphasize mechanisms and underlying principles This edition features an accessible new format with bulleted summaries, shorter paragraphs, and clearer headings. • Realistic cases are accompanied by questions that encourage you to think through the differential diagnosis and treatment options • Real-life family medicine cases with high-yield discussions aligned to clerkship guidelines • USMLE®-style review questions and clinical pearls accompany each case • NEW cases on musculoskeletal conditions, a topic emphasized on the Step 2 exam and national board exam • Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like an experienced doctor