Written for medical students approaching their final examinations, this work explores clinical examination stations and communication skills criteria. It includes information on the OSCE marking scheme and mock exams and covers: Paediatrics; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Ethics and Legal Medicine, including Consent, and IV Procedures.
Integrating internal medicine and psychotherapy, this text takes an holistic approach to those illnesses that present physical symptoms but whose underlying cause may be psychological. It is about what can happen when considering connections between physical symptoms and the patient's story.
Conceived by consultants with years' of experience in the teaching of medical students, this book explores the murky mysteries of General Medicine. It also includes a pointer puzzle on 'Stroke' a word search on 'Diabetic ketoacidosis', a shading-shape puzzle on ARF and a crossword on 'Rheumatoid arthritis'.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS, is a debilitating and complex disorder characterised by profound fatigue that is not improved by bed rest and that may be worsened by physical or mental activity. Persons with CFS most often function at a substantially lower level of activity than they were capable of before the onset of illness.
Provides answers to questions about common medical and behavioral problems in teenagers. This book features tables, bulleted lists, and charts. It addresses concerns such as sports medicine, substance abuse, and adolescent violence and suicide.
Written by a team of residents, fellows, and faculty, this book is a guide to the evaluation and management of trauma and burn patients. It presents hospital tested guidelines and procedures for pre-hospital care and transport, immediate assessment and interventions, and evaluation and management of specific injuries at each anatomic site.
Teaches the skills necessary to obtain blood specimens safely, in accordance with Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (formerly NCCLS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines. This book presents step-by-step procedure instructions and explains why these procedures are important to blood specimen collections.
Presents information on the management challenges facing clinical laboratories.
The state of our understanding of each single step of human reproduction is presented in this volume, which also looks at the ongoing research aiming to improve human reproductive efficiency. This title is part of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal.
Notes and CD examination aids, for the Part 1 MCQ papers from the Royal College of Physicians examinations.