Introduction to Clinical Examination

This invaluable little pocketbook provides the junior medical student with a concise account of the fundamentals of taking a patient history and performing a competent clinical examination. It familiarises the student embarking on clinical training with the core material and techniques required for the crucial part of their medical training.

Covers each body system and outlines the principles of:

taking a history

how to conduct a physical examination

specific examination points as appropriate.

Concentrates only on the main symptoms of disease and then the normal and abnormal physical findings. Mention of specific diseases is confined to those most commonly encountered.

Valuable final chapter shows the method of interpreting the complete physical examination.

An invaluable book at the outset of clinical training when a new student will feel overwhelmed with detail and wants a simple straight-forward guide to these essential skills in medicine.

Compact and pocket-sized to be carried around easily.

John F. Munro received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an associate professor in the Graduate Environmental Management Program at the University of Maryland, University College. His specializations include the role of innovations in promoting environmental sustainability, livability, and resilience; as well as the development of theories of adaption during periods of punctuated biophysical and institutional change. He previously served as a social scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as the Small Business Innovation Research Program Manager for the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Munro is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s standing Committee on International Cooperation. He has written multiple articles on the politics of climate change as well as the structural and cognitive dynamics of policy and institutional change within national and international natural resource management systems.