Clinical skills

A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis

Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination continues to serve all medical trainees with a clear explanation of history taking and clinical examination. Set out systematically, this best selling textbook has comprehensive coverage of the skills necessary for clinically evaluating patients. Thoroughly evidence based and referenced, in full colour with superior artwork and design, the book comes with free and complete access to Student Consult.

The book is written for the clinical skills subject of the medical curriculum. Medical schools teach this at varying stages, some introducing the subject in the beginning years (graduate medical schools years 1 & 2) and others at year 3 (traditional/hybrid curricula, usually 5 or 6 years). Specialty Colleges and RACP teach a clinical skills subject in the early part of basic training which takes place after PGY1 & 2.

Key Features:

• Student Consult - full online access
• Full colour with superior artwork and design
• Evidence based
• Don't pay $103.50! 

New to this Edition:

• Coverage of ENT and Ophthalmology
• Expanded history taking sections with new differential diagnosis tables
• More anatomy content and illustrations
• Expanded evidence based medicine references - the only physical examination trainees book with detailed references; new section on inter-observer variability and kappa values
• New material on DVD includes OSCEs, ECGs and an imaging library.

By Nicholas J. Talley and Simon O'Connor

Date published: 2009

Stock ordering code: 0729539050

Provides a 'primer' in the core skills that every junior doctor needs to acquire, and which are likely be tested in an OSCE...

Features include:

Talley & O'Connor's 'Pocket Clinical Examination' is an introduction to history taking and the examination of patients. It has step by step instructions for the junior medical officer working on the ward for the first time. It aims to provide a solid foundation from which students can develop their own systematic approaches. Details of the mechanisms of symptoms and signs, and comprehensive lists of differential diagnosis are not included but may be found in the larger text Clinical Examination. There is a section on writing and presenting the history and physical examination. PCE provides an introduction to physical examination and a place where students can go for revision before examining patients.

Pocket Clinical Examination is an introduction to history taking and the examination of patients. It has step by step instructions for the junior medical officer working on the ward for the first time. It aims to provide a solid foundation from which students can develop their own systematic approaches. Details of the mechanisms of symptoms and signs, and comprehensive lists of differential diagnosis are not included but may be found in the larger text Clinical Examination. There is a section on writing and presenting the history and physical examination

New Features:

• New emphasis on evidence-based medicine
• New chapters added eg., coverage of advanced history taking, assessment of the acutely ill patient, introduction to examination of the skin
• Key anatomical drawings assist students understand the relevant clinical anatomy of regions of the body being examined
• Hints on how to approach OSCEs.