Talley and O'Connor's Examination Medicine
A Guide to Physician Training
- 10th Edition - November 24, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Nicholas J. Talley, Simon O’Connor
- Language: English
Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skillsTalley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles,… Read more
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Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skills
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.
For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.
This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.
For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.
This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.
- Essential preparative text for internal medicine clinical examinations for those planning to go on to advanced training in a specialty
- More than 50 common and important long cases and 30 common short cases
- Teaches how to think like a physician and like an examiner
- What to expect on the examination day and how to succeed
- Hints and tips for remembering the essentials and avoiding pitfalls
- Common lines of questioning supporting development of critical thinking skills
- Presents a methodical and calm process for trainees to manage patients with complications and co-morbidities
- Reliable and proven format: history, examination and interpretation
- Long cases ordered logically by body system
- Videos demonstrating long and short case technique
- New long cases likely to occur in the exam
- New long-case segments including approaching obesity and the role of new drugs and their important side effects
Basic physician training
The written examination
The clinical examination
The long case
The cardiovascular long case
The respiratory long case
The gastrointestinal long case
The haematological long case
The rheumatological long case
The endocrine long case
The renal long case
The neurological long case
Other important long cases
Think like a physician, think like an examiner – an approach with long-case examples
The short case
Common short cases
- Edition: 10
- Latest edition
- Published: November 24, 2025
- Language: English
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Nicholas J. Talley
Nicholas J Talley AC
MD (NSW), PhD (Syd), MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.), FRACP, FAFPHM, FAHMS, FRCP (Lond. & Edin.), FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAMS, FRCPI (Hon)
Distinguished Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle and
Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia;
Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, United States
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle and Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia; Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United StatesSO
Simon O’Connor
Simon O’Connor
FRACP, DDU, FCSANZ
Cardiologist, Canberra, Australian Capital
Territory, Australia
Affiliations and expertise
Cardiologist, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia