The easy guide to OSCEs for clinical specialties : a step-by-step guide to success / Nazmul Akunjee [and 5 others].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Akunjee, Nazmul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Clinical medicine--Examinations, questions, etc.
• Clinical medicine.
• Clinical Medicine--methods.

Medical Subjects:

• Clinical Medicine--methods.

Genre:

• Examinations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

OSCEs for clinical specialties

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]

Summary:

This fully updated second edition of the highly successful Easy Guide to OSCEs for Clinical Specialties provides a comprehensive yet succinct resource to get you through each clinical rotation as well as the Final exam, Compiled by recently qualified doctors who have experienced the new OSCE system first hand, the book covers over 80 OSCE examination station in a wide range of different subjects. Brand new to this edition are chapters on. 'On the Wards' covering both Anaesthetics and Palliative Care, in line with increasing focus on making exams more relevant to the F1 job. Psychiatry, covering depression, hallucinations, assessing suicide risk, alcohol dependency and mental state, AMTS and the cognitive state exam, Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Infections in Pregnancy and Make Genital Examination, Paediatrics, Non-accidental Injury, Orthopaedics Presenting Orthopaedic X-rays All management suggestions are updated in line with NICE guidance and evidence-base and new time-saving student friendly mnemonics have been added to make the book even more user-friendly. New pedagogy includes. Further 2-colour illustrations and clinical photographs, Quick reference revision tables to aid learning and retention of information, Additional sections for critical appraisal, presentation skills, explaining stations, aide-memoires and differential summaries for each station, New commonly examined cases. This book will ease the already burdensome workload of medical students and help them pass their OSCEs to become junior doctors competent in a wide range of different skills in medical fields. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Obstetrics and gynaecology
• Sexual health
• Paediatrics
• Dermatology
• Psychiatry
• Orthopaedics
• On the wards.

ISBN:

• 9781785231209
• 1785231200

OCLC:

922909412