Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials 5e provides an introduction to the skills required to successfully pass your clinical exams. It offers tips on how to impress your examiners and highlights key steps in taking a history and conducting a physical examination. With practice these will become second nature, even under the stress of exam conditions. We hope that Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials inspires you to master your clinical skills and embark on a successful medical career. If you are looking to further develop your history taking and examination techniques, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis provides greater detail (and more jokes).
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title Page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Foreword - p. vi 6. Preface - p. vii 7. Reviewers - p. x 8. Chapter 1 How to pass your clinical exams - p. 1 9. Chapter 2 Taking the history - p. 8 10. Chapter 3 Advanced history taking - p. 29 11. Chapter 4 Beginning the examination - p. 44 12. Chapter 5 The heart and cardiovascular system - p. 65 13. Chapter 6 The chest - p. 112 14. Chapter 7 The abdomen - p. 142 15. Chapter 8 Neurology - p. 195 16. Chapter 9 The eyes, ears, nose and throat - p. 245 17. Chapter 10 The thyroid and endocrine system - p. 263 18. Chapter 11 The breasts - p. 276 19. Chapter 12 The joints - p. 283 20. Chapter 13 The skin - p. 311 21. Chapter 14 Assessment of the older patient - p. 321 22. Chapter 15 Assessment of the acutely ill patient - p. 326 23. Chapter 16 Examining the systems of the body - p. 330 24. Chapter 17 Writing and presenting the history and physical examination - p. 348 25. List of OSCEs - p. 358 26. Final remarks - p. 361 27. Index - p. 362
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials 5e provides an introduction to the skills required to successfully pass your clinical exams. It offers tips on how to impress your examiners and highlights key steps in taking a history and conducting a physical examination. With practice these will become second nature, even under the stress of exam conditions. We hope that Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination Essentials inspires you to master your clinical skills and embark on a successful medical career. If you are looking to further develop your history taking and examination techniques, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis provides greater detail (and more jokes).
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title Page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Foreword - p. vi 6. Preface - p. vii 7. Reviewers - p. x 8. Chapter 1 How to pass your clinical exams - p. 1 9. Chapter 2 Taking the history - p. 8 10. Chapter 3 Advanced history taking - p. 29 11. Chapter 4 Beginning the examination - p. 44 12. Chapter 5 The heart and cardiovascular system - p. 65 13. Chapter 6 The chest - p. 112 14. Chapter 7 The abdomen - p. 142 15. Chapter 8 Neurology - p. 195 16. Chapter 9 The eyes, ears, nose and throat - p. 245 17. Chapter 10 The thyroid and endocrine system - p. 263 18. Chapter 11 The breasts - p. 276 19. Chapter 12 The joints - p. 283 20. Chapter 13 The skin - p. 311 21. Chapter 14 Assessment of the older patient - p. 321 22. Chapter 15 Assessment of the acutely ill patient - p. 326 23. Chapter 16 Examining the systems of the body - p. 330 24. Chapter 17 Writing and presenting the history and physical examination - p. 348 25. List of OSCEs - p. 358 26. Final remarks - p. 361 27. Index - p. 362
