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Guide to Clinical Examination/Quick Guide
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This is just a quick guide to various history and examinations.
The pages are mostly quick bulleted points, designed to be used on their own when practising a particular exam station. Things that you might want to say to the examiner appear in quotation marks "like this".
They should keep everything in a logical order, and minimise the amount a patient has to move around.
History and assessment
/General medical history/
/Psychiatric history/
/Self-harm or suicide attempt/
Examination
/Quick examination of everything/ (useful for clerking in a patient)
/Cardiovascular examination/
/Respiratory examination/
/Combined cardiovascular and respiratory examination/
/Gastrointestinal examination/
/Abdominal examination/
/Neurological examination/
/Musculoskeletal examination/
Advice giving
These tend to vary more from place to place. We have tried to stay general, without being to vague. Just use your common sense when using them.
/Cutting down alcohol/
/Stop smoking/
/Asthma inhaler/