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This new and expanded 3rd Edition of the Multidimensional Clinical Profile (MDCP) offers so much more to help the clinician navigate the treatment pathways for patients with Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI), formerly called Functional GI Disorders.It integrates the multiple components contributing to the patient’s illness experience into a personalized patient-centered approach to treatment. There are five categories:• Traditional diagnosis of a DGBI based on Rome IV criteria• Clinical modifiers such as other symptoms, signs, or laboratory findings• Impact of the illness on the patient as mild, moderate, or severe• Psychosocial modifiers such as psychologic co-morbidity, anxiety, depression, or trauma• Physiological modifiers and biomarkersBuilding upon the highly successful 2nd edition published five years ago, the Rome Foundation gathered the world’s leading experts to incorporate the ways that good clinicians choose from an unending variety of treatments depending on the array of clinical presentations: from mild to severe, with comorbid anxiety or depression, occurring postinfection, with fecal incontinence, or having episodic vs. continuous symptoms, and many more to consider. Now, this 3rd edition builds upon the MDCP teaching approach in several ways:• More clinical cases. There are 19 more unique presentations than in the last edition to enhance the breadth of learning. • More dual diagnoses. We include real-life cases of IBS and functional dyspepsia, IBS-IBD or GERD-IBS, and more. • More multicultural cases. Understanding cultural and psychosocial factors will influence clinical decision-making and affect treatment.• More recent clinical issues. Included are cases with Avoidance Restrictive Food Intolerance Disorder (ARFID) and even postinfection IBS from COVID-19The information offered is intuitively clear, and the organizational approach is pragmatic and useful. All clinicians working with patients having DGBI will benefit from this novel approac