Clinical Examination Essentials: An Introduction to Clinical Skills (and how to pass your clinical exams) - Softcover

Talley MD (NSW) PhD (Syd) MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.) FRACP FAFPHM FAHMS FRCP (Lond. & Edin.) FACP FACG AGAF FAMS FRCPI (Hon), Nicholas J.; O'Connor FRACP DDU FCSANZ, Simon

 
9780729543118: Clinical Examination Essentials: An Introduction to Clinical Skills (and how to pass your clinical exams)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0729543110 ISBN 13: 9780729543118
Publisher: Elsevier, 2020

Synopsis

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 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.
  • New introductory chapter on how to pass your clinical exams and the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
  • New clinical photographs
  • Updated hint boxes and summaries

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About the Authors

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



Simon O'Connor

FRACP, DDU, FCSANZ

Cardiologist, Canberra, Australian Capital

Territory, Australia

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Publisher
Elsevier
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0729543110
ISBN 13 
9780729543118
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
5
Number of pages
397