Product Description

A firm favourite of medical students and junior doctors, Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills covers the essential principles and techniques of history taking and examination, and provides guidance on the key professional skills involved in developing and maintaining good communication between doctor and patient. This new fourth edition has been revised to provide up–to–date information on procedures and a greater emphasis on the patient–centred approach.

First class clinical skills are vital for all medical students and doctors. This pocket–sized quick reference guide shows you how to take a complete history; how to examine a patient thoroughly; how to request the most appropriate investigations; and how to put all of this together and come to a diagnosis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352641 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"This publication is designed to equip medical students and junior doctors with essential principles and techniques of history taking and examination with pointers in developing communication skills with, in particular, a patient–centred approach...an excellent ′white coat pocket′ guide suitable for doctors in the Foundation Programme. I would have no hesitation in recommending it for the Foundation doctors in our Trust." Clinical Tutor and Foundation Programme Director, Cheltenham General Hospital

"It is a little smasher." Surgo, Glasgow University Medical School

"An excellent reference for students and junior doctors on hospital clinical placements." Scottish Medical Journal

"Lecture Notes on Clinical Skills fits into both white coat and book budget, something the first year clinical student should bear in mind" GKT Gazette

Published Reviews of the Fourth Edition

"...a very practical, ′white coat′ text." Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 2004

Scottish Medical Journal
An excellent reference for students and junior doctors on hospital clinical placements.

GKT Gazette
Fits into both white coat and book budget, something the first year clinical student should bear in mind.

Customer Reviews

An extremely practical book for the wards
This book goes through history taking, examinations, presenting patients, basic investigations - the stuff that you need as a medical student on the wards that you never feel fully competent at! It's not too detailed, but detailed enough so that you have all the info you want over a wide range of areas - all in one pocket sized book! All in all an excellent companion to the oxford handbook of clinical medicine on the wards

Great Book
Key to success is doing the basics perfectly. Keep it simple. This book is superb. Read the bigger exam books but for puting it all together this is the one for the night before the clinical exams.