The ability to record an accurate and complete patient history and to examine the patient are fundamental skills that all student doctors need to acquire at an early stage in training.

Making sense of Clinical Examination of the adult Patient provides invaluable ‘hands-on’ guidance for medical students and junior doctors when presented with a new patient. Written from a very practical standpoint, Dr Douglas Model his extensive experience of teaching this subject, with ‘real-life’ scenarios interspersed throughout the text.

Key Features:-

• Uses a step-by-step approach suitable for the first year medical student and beyond.
• Starts with basic principles – ‘how best to relate to patients’ – followed by a detailed description of history and record keeping
• Examination is divided by body system for ease of reference
• Covers the equipment required for each system examination described.
• Helpful checklists provided throughout
• Text supplemented by explanatory diagrams

On reading Making sense of Clinical Examination of the Adult Patient the reader is given:

• Practical advice on recording all aspects of a patient’s history, including the present complaint, past medical history and family history
• Detailed guidance on performing an examination of each body system

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