Medicine for medical students

By Marc A. Crutchley

Subjects: Medical Students, Study skills, Examinations, Examination Questions, Study and teaching, Health and Fitness, Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures, Problem-Based Learning, Medical students, Clinical Medicine, Medicine, Study guides, Medical History Taking

Description: This book is a compilation of every bit of useful information that I have learnt during my time in medicine, it covers virtually every specialty and is organised into easily understandable chapters.History taking: what questions to ask, how to ask them, why you are asking them, plus tips to easily remember histories and to impress examiners.Performing examinations: detailed step-by-step instructions on how to perform a perfect clinical examination, what you are looking for, why you are performing each step, and how to look confident and faultless in your OSCEs.Revision: put simply these sections contain key knowledge about each specialty that is crucial to your learning as a medical student. They contain hints and tips throughout to help with your understanding of the subject and cut out all of the waffle found in other books. This makes them an invaluable source of information not only for your written exams, but as a quick reference in your junior doctor years.Medication: covers the major medications, in what situations they should be used, possible side effects, and how each work on the body.Investigations: these sections detail the investigations you would order to support or disprove diagnosis, plus how to interpret and present the results, e.g. bloods, ECGs, X-rays, ABGs, and more.Clinical Skills: detailed step-by-step instructions how to perform virtually all the clinical skills you will need to become a doctor, e.g. venepuncture, urinary catheterization, cannulation, and much more.Appendix: the book also contains extensive appendices that are full of valuable information.Throughout the book I also refer to `tricks of the trade' that my colleagues and I have found to be a great help throughout our careers.I am very proud of this book. I honestly believe that it will help you tremendously with your studies, and also save you time and money which may have been spent on buying and painstakingly reading through the other, overly complicated medical textbooks currently on the market.