The intention of writing Kundu?s Practical Medicine is to groom young Medical students from their earlier days in undergraduate curriculum and provide a kind of book which is lucid, concise, updated and student ? friendly. The skill of communication, clinical examination, objective assessment and planning of treatment can only be gained by learning and practice. It is to re-orient the students to identify the basic message of the monograph, that is, to depict the real situations and events present in the text, rather than just ideas and theories. A concise, lucid and updated book on practical part of medicine in easily comprehensible language with a unique narrative style A handy monograph on clinical medicine which includes history taking, symptomatology, general survey and systemic examination A book which mimics a clinical teacher to prime students before entering in medicine wards Student-friendly, exam-oriented and easy-to-use outline presentation of clinical methods in a question-answer format A book with plenty of clinical photographs, tables, charts, line drawings and bulleted lists for quick reference to increase the clinical skills