Differential Diagnosis in Cardiology — Case Text

The book our teaching format came from

The unfolding-case format used across every track on this platform is modelled on how these 1,800 cases are written: presentation first, differential constructed before investigations are revealed, resolution and reasoning last. Learners who work through the text recognise the rhythm immediately, because the modules were built from it.

Organised the way patients arrive

Sixteen chapters by presenting complaint — chest pain, breathlessness, palpitation, syncope, oedema, murmur, abnormal tracing, incidental imaging finding, and the systemic presentations that reach cardiology sideways. A book organised by diagnosis can only be opened by someone who already knows the answer, which is never the situation the clinician is in.

Where we set it

As supplementary reading across every clinical track, and as the primary text for the Diagnostic Reasoning module block. It is the volume tutors most often draw extra cases from when a cohort wants more practice than the module supplies.

Self-paced use

At 1,448 pages it also works without the courses. Learners who want the reasoning practice but not the enrolment take it alone and work a chapter a fortnight, which is roughly the pace at which the cases stay useful rather than becoming a reading exercise.

PDF, lifetime access, from CardiologyBooks.com.