CRC MAYO CLIN GASTROEN HEPA BRD REV PDF

PREFACE

The specialty of gastroenterology and hepatology encompasses a vast anatomical assortment of organs with diverse structure and function, potentially afflicted by a multiplicity of disease processes. To assist physicians in training preparing for the gastroenterology board examination as well as a growing number of gastroenterologists awaiting recertification, we designed the Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review course and produced the second edition of this book. The book is not intended to replace the many more encyclopedic textbooks of gastroenterology, hepatology, pathology, endoscopy, nutrition, and radiology now available, nor is it intended to serve as an update to physicians looking for the newest advances in the science and art of gastroenterology and hepatology. Instead, this book provides a core of essential knowledge in gastroenterology, hepatology, and integral related areas of pathology, endoscopy, nutrition, and radiology. Clinical knowledge related to diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to patient management is emphasized. Case-based presentations and multiple board-examination–type, single-best–answer questions with annotated answers are featured. As such, this text also is intended to be used by medical students and residents for their clerkships on internal medicine and gastroenterology rotations and by gastroenterology fellows in training. Physicians in practice should find this book to be a practical review to consolidate their knowledge in gastroenterology and hepatology.

The book is organized along subspecialty topics, including esophageal disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, small-bowel disease and nutrition, miscellaneous disorders, colonic disorders, liver disease, and pancreaticobiliary disease. Many color and black-and-white figures are included in the text. Each subspecialty section concludes with questions and answers (materials in the questions and answers are not included in the index). The faculty responsible for this book are all Mayo Clinic gastroenterologists and hepatologists who spend the majority of their time caring for patients and have a commitment to teaching medical students, house officers, fellows, nurses, and physicians. The faculty's particular interests in subspecialty areas of clinical gastroenterology and hepatology provide broad expertise to the book's content.

We thank the staffs of the Section of Scientific Publications, Media Support Services, and Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education at Mayo Clinic for their contributions. The support of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Group, also is greatly appreciated. We give special thanks to our secretaries and to Keith Lindor, M.D., for his ongoing enthusiasm and support for our faculty and teaching mission.