Essential Examination: Step-By-Step System-Based Guide to Clinical Examination with Practical Tips and Key Facts for Osces

By Alasdair K.B. Ruthven

Uniquely, "Essential Examination" lays out the full sequence for examination of one body system on one double-page spread a format allowing rapid access to information and ideal for use in clinical environments for quick revision. And the spiral binding allows you to keep it open at the body system you need.Each system-based examination offers a clear, step-by-step guide to examining that particular patient, including useful things to say to the patient (or an examiner), detailed descriptions of special tests, etc. Alongside this guide is the other key information you will need: potential findings, differential diagnoses of clinical signs and practical tips. In addition, the following double-page spread provides further facts relating to that particular examination, selected because of the regularity with which they are asked about in bedside teaching and OSCEs. The book also provides essential background information for anyone preparing for the USMLE Step 2 CS.In many sections there are also tips on how to present your findings succinctly to help you keep on track.If you are examining patients on the wards, or preparing for exams, then you need "Essential Examination" "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904842844
• ISBN13: 9781904842842
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Scion Publishing
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.5"