Students starting on the wards are often bewildered at their role and unable to make the most of the learning opportunities presented to them. Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion is written for inexperienced clinical students, and helps them to use their patients to learn medicine. At heart, it is a workbook that students can use whilst on the wards, that provides students with a framework for approaching patients with a range of common conditions. It is a 'friend over the shoulder' - guiding students through history taking and medical examination, and then evaluating the patient's current condition and their future management. It is also a self-directed learning portfolio, helping students to assess their progress by seeing where they are lacking clinical exposure.
The book's introduction explains how to use it to make the most of time spent on the wards - how to interview and examine patients, how to use the book in recording findings findings, and then how to present patients to doctors. It emphasises the importance of anonymising patient information and ensuring patient consent before interviewing and examining them. The book goes on to cover around 50 common medical and surgical problems. Each chapter (for instance 'cardiology') begins with an introductory section offering basic approaches to the symptoms, signs, skills and investigations encountered in that specialty. The subsequent clerking proformas provide a guided framework for students to follow when working with their patients. A set of questions then helps students explore the topic in more detail - sending them back to their textbooks to read about what they have seen and understand the science underlying it.
Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion features dynamic, annotated figures and PDFs of the proformas in the book, available to download.
Key Features
- The ideal resource to help you transform medical knowledge into effective clinical practice.
- A friend over the shoulder when encountering ward-based clinical medicine for the first time.
- Clear, intuitive structure provides a confidence-building framework on which to base your activity on the wards, helping you get the most out of the clinical experience on offer.
- Unique workbook format uses pro formas to help you gather and record all the most relevant and essential information to help in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, with the same pro formas acting as ideal revision material later on.
- Questions throughout encourage you to reflect on your experience on the wards in the context of basic sciences, communication skills, professionalism, evidence based medicine, data interpretation, practical skills and inter-professional skills.
Introduction
- 1: Introduction
- 2: How to use this book
- 3: Recognising the sick patient
- 4: History taking
- 5: Examination
- 6: Forming an impression
- 7: How to present patients
- 8: Writing in patients' notes
- 9: Prescibing skills
- 10: Glossary
- 11: Table of normal values
- 1: Introduction to Cardiology
- 2: Acute coronary syndrome
- 3: Myocardial infarction and secondary prevention
- 4: Heart failure
- 5: Dysrhythmias
- 6: Valvular and structural heart disease
- 7: Syncope and falls
- 1: Introduction to respiratory medicine
- 2: Athsma
- 3: COPD
- 4: DVT and PE
- 5: Pneumnia
- 6: Lung cancer
- 7: Pneumthorax
- 8: Tuberculosis
- 9: Interstitial lung disease
- 1: Introduction to gastroenterology
- 2: Upper GI bleeding
- 3: Gastric and oesophageal cancer
- 4: Acute hepatitis
- 5: Chronic liver disease
- 6: Inflammatory bowel disease
- 1: Introduction to renal medicine
- 2: Acute kidney injury
- 3: Chronic kidney disease
- 4: UTI and pyelonephritis
- 1: Introduction to endocrinology
- 2: Hyperglycaemic emergencies
- 3: The diabetic review
- 4: Thyroid disease
- 5: Steroid disease
- 1: Introduction to neurology
- 2: Stroke and TIAs
- 3: Acute confusion
- 4: Seizures
- 5: Headache
- 6: Spinal and peripheral nerve lesions
- 7: Parkinson's disease
- 1: Introduction to multisystem diseases
- 2: Acute arthritis
- 3: Anaemia
- 4: Haematological malignacies
- 5: HIV and AIDS
- 6: Skin ulcers
- 7: Tropical diseases
- 1: Introduction to surgery
- 2: Acute abdominal pain
- 3: Intestinal obstruction
- 4: Pancreatitis
- 5: Hernias
- 6: Colorectal carcinoma
- 7: Lumps and bumps
- 8: Breast cancer
- 9: Peripheral vascular disease
- 10: Haematuria
- 11: Prostate disease
- 12: Trauma
Readership:
- Undergraduate medical students who are in the first year of their ward-based clinical medicine experience.
- Also a valuable reference for those with more ward-based experience.
Product Details
- Editors: David Randall and Adam Feather
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (June 25, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199574375
- ISBN-13: 978-0199574377
- List Price: $59.95