Mksap 17 Cardiovascular Medicine PDF Download

Welcome to the Cardiovascular Medicine Section of MKSAP 17! In these pages, you will find updated information on risk assessment in cardiovascular disease, diagnostic testing, coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, pericardia! and myocardial disease, valvular heart disease, and other clinical chal lenges. All of these topics are uniquely focused on the needs of generalists and subspecialists outside of cardiovascular medicine. The publication of the 17th edition of Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) represents nearly a half-century of serving as the gold-standard resource for internal medicine education. It also marks its evolution into an innovative learn ing system to better meet the changing educational needs and learning styles of all internists. The core content of MKSAP has been developed as in previous editions-newly generated, essential information in 11 topic areas of internal medicine created by dozens of leading generalists and subspecialists and guided by certification and recer tification requirements, emerging knowledge in the field, and user feedback. MKSAP 17 also contains 1200 all-new, psycho metrically validated, and peer-reviewed multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for self-assessment and study, including 120 in Cardiovascular Medicine. MKSAP 17 continues to include High Value Care (HVC) recommendations, based on the concept of balancing clinical benefit with costs and harms, with links to MCQs that illustrate these principles. In addition, HVC Key Points are highlighted in the text. Also highlighted, with blue text, are Hospitalist-focused content and MCQs that directly address the learning needs of internists who work in the hospital setting. MKSAP 17 Digital provides access to additional tools allowing you to customize your learning experience, including regular text updates with practice-changing, new information and 200 new self-assessment questions; a board-style pretest to help direct your learning; and enhanced custom-quiz options. And, with MKSAP Complete, learners can access 1200 electronic flashcards for quick review of important concepts or review the updated and enhanced version of Virtual Dx, an image-based self-assessment tool.