PREFACE

With China's economic and social development, the comprehensive national strength increases, internationalization has become an important strategic path for the development of China's higher education. Since internationalization of higher education provides constant expansion and steady enhancement for international students, clinical medicine now has ranked one of the majors striving fast. As a significant step in the training of international medical students, clinical practice teaching deserves special attention from both China's education authorities and medical colleges. In order to enhance the teaching process and ensure the teaching quality, our teaching team compiles this Clinical Internship Guidance Co lection for International Students. Based on the supervision of the state education authorities, this Collection explores decades' experience of international students' clinical study in our university by reference to professional standards at home and abroad. Easy-to-carry and reader-friendly, this Colletcion consist of four parts, i.e. internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology and pediatrics, with the consideration of content precision, keys highlight and practical use. Each book mainly covers clinical common, frequently encountered diseases, and focuses on disease diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment.

Sincere efforts have been made to verify the correctness in the compilation of this Collection for international students. However, some mistakes and errors in this Collection may be unavoidable due to our time and knowledge limit. Thus, we appreciate all your kind criticism and correction.

Zhao Yun

March 29, 2016