Interesting Cases in Internal Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach compiles challenging and academically stimulating clinical cases first presented during the monthly meetings of the Calicut Forum of Internal Medicine (CALFIM), a professional body of physicians formed specifically to share clinical experience and discuss cases of genuine diagnostic interest. Each case is built around real bedside reasoning rather than textbook abstraction, tracing the actual path from presenting complaint to diagnosis and management.

The book emphasizes differential diagnosis and problem-solving as they unfold at the bedside, drawing on cases contributed by postgraduate residents and their faculty mentors across multiple teaching institutions. This multi-institutional format brings a breadth of real clinical experience that a single-author case book cannot replicate.

Edited by three senior CALFIM office-bearers with decades of combined teaching and consultant experience in Internal Medicine, the collection is framed explicitly as an evidence-based approach to case discussion, not a collection of curiosities.

• Builds real bedside reasoning: cases are worked through the way they actually unfolded in clinic, not simplified into a standard textbook pattern.
• Strengthens differential diagnosis skills: each case is chosen specifically for its diagnostic or problem-solving interest.
• Draws on genuine multi-institutional experience: contributions from postgraduate residents and faculty mentors across different teaching institutions widen the clinical perspective beyond any one hospital.
• Backed by senior editorial expertise: compiled by CALFIM's President, Treasurer, and Secretary, physicians with a combined multi-decade record in clinical medicine, teaching, and research.

Key Features:

• Cases sourced directly from CALFIM's monthly clinical case meetings, a forum built specifically around cases of genuine diagnostic interest.
• Evidence-based approach to each case discussion, going beyond a simple case summary.
• Contributions from postgraduate residents and faculty mentors across multiple teaching institutions.
• Edited by three senior Internal Medicine physicians with FRCP (Glasgow) and FIMSA fellowships and decades of consultant and teaching experience.