Clinical Examination: Passing Your Finals - Softcover

Leung, Wai-Ching

9780340661925: Clinical Examination: Passing Your Finals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340661925 ISBN 13: 9780340661925

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 1996

This small-format revision text provides the essential information for medical students taking patient's history, performing clinical examination, and presenting clinical cases effectively at examinations, assessments, and clinical meetings. Unlike many other texts on the subjects, this book is organized by specialties, provides tips on passing the exams, and gives expert guidance on presenting both the long and short case summaries. It is presented in an easy-to-remember format and designed as a revision text, supplementary to the larger and less focused textbooks. Illustrative examples are provided throughout the book, and a different approach complemented by generic case histories is outlined for each medical specialty.
Medical students are required to take a history, examine patients, and present their findings to the examiner as part of their Final Examination. Long and short cases form a major part of the students' assessment, and the approahces required vary according to each specialty.
The author has great experience in passing exams including the MRCP, DRCOG, MRCPsych, MRCGP, DCH, DO and PGCE. Based on his success in these exams, he has written a revision aid to help medical students pass the undergraduate exams. The book equips students with different approaches to the specialties, helps them summarise their findings in a logical order, and provides examples of long and short cases for each examined specialty.
A "must" for students preparing for their Finals!
This small format revision text provides the essential information in all clinical specialty to help students pass the Final MB exam. While there are many texts on clinical examination, this concise text is organised by specialities, provides tips on passing the exam, and gives advice on presenting both the long and shourt case summaries. It is a practical book which supplements the larger and more illustrated texts, and which also gives clinical illustrations where appropriate. The book brings together all the relevant clinical examination information in one text to aid students prepare and review this large topic comprehensively.

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About the Author:

Wai-Ching Leung is currently Senior Registrar in Public Health, Northern and Yorkshire RHA, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

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