This book is a one-volume core revision text covering general (internal) medicine, designed to stimulate the student into assessing his/her own knowledge during self-directed learning and exam preparation. It promotes self-directed learning with motivation coming from self-identification of strengths and weaknesses leading to an assessment of needs. The structure of the book will be: each chapter starts with key objectives; a core text of a clinical system, starting with a basic description of the normal physiology and anatomy; and, a self-assessment section at the end of each chapter allowing the student to assess progress in the application of the facts to common clinical problems.