TY - BOOK AU - Maher,Bridget AU - Henn,Pat TI - Learning clinical skills: pearls, pitfalls and tips for the OSCE T2 - Health care in transition SN - 9781621004691 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Nova Science Publishers KW - Clinical competence KW - Case studies KW - Clinical medicine KW - Medical students KW - Clinical Competence KW - Clinical Medicine KW - education KW - Students, Medical N1 - "Nova biomedical."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The consultation / Joe Moran -- Persistent cough / Marcus P. Kennedy -- Murmurs, heart sounds and more / David Kerins and Carl Vaughan -- Diarrhea: a common symptom / Eamonn M. Quigley -- Neurological examination / Patricia M. Fitzgerald -- Petechiae and purpura / Mary R. Cahill -- Meningococcal septicaemia in children / Jackelina Pando-Kelly and Deirdre Murray -- Neonatal jaundice and the newborn screening examination / Tony Ryan -- Examining the abdomen / David Power and Mark Corrigan -- The diabetic foot: pearls, pitfalls, and tips for the OSCE / Antoinette Tuthill -- Shock and collapse in the emergency department / Stephen Cusack -- D is for dyspnoea / John Hinchion -- Infectious diseases: a broad differential / Mary Horgan, Sarah O'Connell and Sarah Moran -- Chronic kidney disease uncovered / Liam Plant -- The older patient / Denis O'Mahony -- Introduction to skin examination / Benvon Moran and John Bourke -- Syncope: reassure or refer? / Fionnuala Quigley -- Safe for surgery: pre-operative assessment for anaesthesia and surgery / Brian O'Donnell -- The psychiatric interview and mental state examination / Aisling Campbell -- Ophthalmology for medical students / Sinead Byrne -- Common things are common. Otitis Media / Brendan Fennessy and Gerard O'Leary N2 - Hearing the patient's story, asking the right questions, and doing a careful, thorough and informed physical examination are intrinsic to good medicine. This book is a clinical skills textbook with a third dimension - the human factor. We read about real people, real symptoms and real diagnostic problems UR - #gotoholdings ER -