Learning clinical skills : pearls, pitfalls and tips for the OSCE / Bridget Maher and Pat Henn, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maher, Bridget.

Henn, Pat.

Series:

Health care in transition series.

Health care in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical competence--Case studies.

Clinical competence.

Clinical medicine--Case studies.

Clinical medicine.

Medical students--Case studies.

Medical students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hearing the patient's story, asking the right questions, and doing a careful, thorough and informed physical examination are intrinsic to good medicine. It is easy to rely and become dependent on technology to diagnose and to treat our patients. Yet, no machine will ever be a match for a listening ear and the laying on of hands. These skills are core to the art of medicine and require practice. It is only by becoming familiar with the norm that we can appreciate the norm. This book is a clinical skills textbook with a third dimension - the human factor. We read about real people, real symptoms and real diagnostic problems. It doesn't waste time on rare physical signs that will never be encountered but instead, focuses on common, important clinical skills and symptom patterns.

Contents:

The consultation / Joe Moran

Persistent cough / Marcus Kennedy

Murmurs, heart sounds and more / David Kerins and Carl Vaughan

Diarrhea - a common symptom / Eamonn Quigley

Understanding neurology - working out the pathways / Patricia Fitzgerald

Petechiae and purpura / Mary Cahill

Meningococcal septicaemia in children / Jackelina Pando-Kelly, Deirdre Murray

Neonatal jaundice and the newborn screening examination / Tony Ryan

Examining the abdomen / David Power and Mark Corrigan

The diabetic foot - pearls, pitfalls, and tips for the OSCE / Antoinette Tuthill

Shock and collapse in the emergency department / Stephen Cusack

D is for dyspnoea / John Hinchion

Infectious diseases - a broad differential / Mary Horgan, Sarah O'Connell, Sarah Moran

Chronic kidney disease uncovered / Liam Plant

The older patient / Denis O'Mahony

What lies beneath - skin rashes / Benvon Moran and John Bourke

Syncope - reassure or refer? / Finnoula Quigley

Safe for surgery -pre-operative assessment for anaesthesia and surgery / Brian O'Donnell

The psychiatric interview and mental state examination / Aisling Campbell

Ophthalmology for medical students -acute eye injury / Sinead Byrne

Common things are common / Otitis Media, Gerard O'Leary, Brendan Fennessy.

Notes:

"Nova biomedical."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62100-469-4