Sixty high-yield psychiatry cases help you sharpen your diagnostic and problem-solving skills

You need exposure to high-yield cases to excel on the psychiatry clerkship and the shelf-exam. Case Files: Psychiatry presents sixty real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts. Each case includes complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, definitions of key terms, and USMLE-style review questions with detailed explanations of the correct answers. With this system, you'll learn in the context of real patients, rather than merely memorize facts.

Section I: How to Approach Clinical Problems
Part 1. Approach to the Patient
Part 2. Approach to Clinical Problem Solving
Part 3. Approach to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Part 4. Approach to Reading

Section II: Psychiatric Therapeutics
Part 1. Psychotherapy
Part 2. Psychopharmacotherapy


Section III: Clinical Cases
Sixty Case Scenarios

Section IV: Listing of Cases
Listing by Case Number
Listing by Disorder (Alphabetical)
Listing by DSM-IV Categories

Index