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Updated, revised, and reorganized, the Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade, as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.
List of contents
1 Initial Patient Interaction.- Communication Skills.- History.- Routine Examination.- Assessment and Management Plan.- Preventive Care.- 2 Normal Obstetrics.- Physiological Changes in Pregnancy.- Antepartum Care.- Normal and Abnormal Labor.- Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring.- Anesthesia/Analgesia in Obstetrics.- Vaginal Delivery and Operative Obstetrics.- Obstetric Procedures.- Immediate Care of the Newborn.- Postpartum Care.- Postpartum Sterilization.- Common Obstetric Abbreviations.- 3 Abnormal Obstetrics.- Spontaneous and Elective Abortion.- Ectopic Pregnancy.- Prenatal Genetic Counseling.- Antenatal Infections.- Antepartum Fetal Surveillance.- Diabetes and Pregnancy.- Hypertension in Pregnancy.- Rh and Other Isoimmunization.- Premature Labor, Preterm Rupture of Membranes.- Third Trimester Bleeding.- Multifetal Gestation.- Postterm Pregnancy.- Fetal Death.- Postpartum Hemorrhage.- Postpartum Fever.- Postpartum Depression.- 4 Gynecology.- Human Sexuality.- Contraception.- Vaginitis and Vulvitis.- Pap Smear and Benign Cervical Disease.- Pelvic Relaxation.- Urinary Incontinence.- Sexually Transmitted Disease.- Dysmenorrhea.- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.- Uterine Leiomyomas.- Endometriosis.- Adenomyosis.- Chronic Pelvic Pain.- 5 Reproductive Endocrinology.- Sexual Differentiatio.- Menstrual Physiology.- Puberty.- Abnormal Uterine Bleeding.- Amenorrhea.- Hirsutism and Virilism.- Premenstrual Syndrome.- Infertility.- Menopause.- 6 Gynecologic Oncology.- Vulvar Neoplasia.- Cervical Neoplasia.- Endometrial Neoplasia.- Ovarian Neoplasia.- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.- 7 Ethics and Legal Issues.- Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology.- Legal Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology.- Medical Malpractice.- Review Questions and Answers.- Questions.- Answers.
Summary
Updated, revised, and reorganized, the Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade, as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.
