Clinical Examination Essentials
An Introduction to Clinical Skills (and how to pass your clinical exams)
- 5th Edition - July 1, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Nicholas J. Talley, Simon O’Connor
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 3 1 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 7 4 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 7 4 1 - 9
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials 5e provides an introduction to the skills required to successfully pass your clinical exams. It offers tips on how to impres… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTalley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials 5e provides an introduction to the skills required to successfully pass your clinical exams.
It offers tips on how to impress your examiners and highlights key steps in taking a history and conducting a physical examination. With practice these will become second nature, even under the stress of exam conditions.
We hope that Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials inspires you to master your clinical skills and embark on a successful medical career. If you are looking to further develop your history taking and examination techniques, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis provides greater detail (and more jokes).
- Talley & O’Connor exam hints present handy information which assists students and junior doctors in correctly diagnosing patients
- OSCE hints panel at the end of each chapter provides practice OSCE-style scenarios and answers to test all skills required for the OSCEs
- Question Boxes provide a checklist of questions which students as examiners should pose to patients to enable them to correctly identify the presenting symptoms required for an accurate diagnosis
- Includes an Enhanced eBook version with purchase. The enhanced eBook allows the end user to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- Cover image
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Reviewers
- 1 How to pass your clinical exams
- Testing clinical skills in medical training: core competencies will be assessed
- The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
- Alternative assessment methods
- 2 Taking the history
- The history: rationale
- Bedside manner
- Obtaining the history
- Concluding the interview
- 3 Advanced history taking
- History taking for the maintenance of good health
- Personal history taking
- Cultural history taking
- Functional history taking: activities and instrumental activities of daily living
- Communication
- The ‘difficult’ patient
- 4 Beginning the examination
- Equipment
- Hand-washing
- First impressions
- Vital signs
- General appearance
- Weight and body habitus
- The hands and nails
- How to examine a lump
- Preparing the patient for examination
- 5 The heart and cardiovascular system
- The cardiac history
- Examination anatomy
- Examining the heart
- 6 The chest
- The respiratory history
- Examination anatomy
- Examining the chest
- 7 The abdomen
- The gastrointestinal history
- Examination anatomy
- Examining the gastrointestinal system
- The genitourinary system
- Examination of the genitourinary system
- The haematological system
- Haematopoeitic examination
- 8 Neurology
- The neurological history
- Neurological examination sequence
- 9 The eyes, ears, nose and throat
- The eyes
- The ears
- The nose
- The mouth and throat
- 10 The thyroid and endocrine system
- The thyroid
- The endocrine system: a systematic approach
- 11 The breasts
- The history
- Examination of the breasts
- 12 The joints
- The rheumatological history
- Examination anatomy
- The rheumatological examination (see Box 12.2)
- 13 The skin
- The dermatological history
- Examination anatomy
- Examination of the skin
- 14 Assessment of the older patient
- History taking in the older patient: special considerations
- Mental state examination
- The physical examination in the older patient: special considerations
- 15 Assessment of the acutely ill patient
- 16 Examining the systems of the body
- The cardiovascular system (see Fig 16.1)
- The respiratory system (see Fig 16.2)
- The gastrointestinal system (see Fig 16.3)
- The nervous system (see Fig 16.4)
- 17 Writing and presenting the history and physical examination
- Writing up the history and physical examination
- The history
- The physical examination (PE)
- Provisional diagnosis, problem list and plans
- Presenting the history and physical examination
- List of OSCEs
- Final remarks
- Index
- Edition: 5
- Published: July 1, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 397
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729543118
- eBook ISBN: 9780729587426
- eBook ISBN: 9780729587419
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Nicholas J. Talley
Nicholas J Talley, MD (NSW), PhD (Syd), MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.), FAHMS, FRACP, FAFPHM, FRCP (Lond. & Edin.), FACP , Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Research, University of Newcastle, Australia Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Australia President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians Chair-Elect, Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC) Hon. Treasurer, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia Adjunct Professor and Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, NC, USA Foreign Guest Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Affiliations and expertise
AC, MD, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM, FRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.), FACP, FAHMS Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle and Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, AustraliaSO
Simon O’Connor
Simon O’Connor, FRACP DDU FCSANZ , Cardiologist, Canberra Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Affiliations and expertise
FRACP, DDU, FCSANZ Cardiologist, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia