Description

Your one-stop-shop for final examination, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is the first truly comprehensive pocket guide to clinical examination and practical skills for medical students and junior doctors. Providing clear and user-friendly guidance on all aspects of history taking, physical examination, common practical procedures, data interpretation and communication skills, it gives realistic advice on coping with common situations.

• The only handbook to cover history taking, examination, practical procedures, data interpretation and communication skills in one volume
• Divided into systems-based sections to mirror modern medical teaching practices
• Includes approximately forty practical procedures that the final year medical student, and senior nurse, are expected to perform
• Highly illustrated diagrams and photographs
• An excellent learning and revision guide for medical students and an essential primer for junior doctors going out onto the ward
• Fully cross-referenced to other books in the Oxford Handbook series including 'Clinical Medicine' and 'Clinical Specialties'

In line with current teaching methods, the handbook takes a systems-based approach to medicine. Each system chapter follows a structured format covering applied anatomy, history, examination, and the presentation of common and important disorders. The procedures section includes approximately forty practical procedures that the final year medical student and senior nurse are expected to perform, from hand-washing through cardiopulmonary resuscitation to inserting chest drains. The theory, practice and complications are outlined for each. The final section on data interpretation covers the basics of chest x-rays, abdominal x-rays, ECGs, lung function tests and several other areas that the junior doctor is expected to carry out in their early years of training.

Readership: This handbook is aimed at medical students throughout their course and student nurses throughout their clinical years. It is an excellent quick reference and revision guide when preparing for OSCEs and data interpretation examinations. It will also prove useful to junior doctors and nurse practitioners as a primer before going out onto wards, or into a primary care setting.