This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning. Applying educational learning, this accessible book presents strategies for practice learning and personal development.

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition published in 1995. This fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development.

This new book is designed around twenty clinical cases, each representative of scenarios encountered by doctors who work in primary care and which will prompt learning in related issues surrounding each clinical scenario. Each case ends with an exam-style question, familiar to MRCGP candidates for AKT preparation.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition of health and healthcare that moves beyond the biomedical model.