Category: Clinical Skills

Smith’s Patient Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, Fourth Edition

Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing, Fourth Edition is a practical introductory textbook covering the essentials of patient interviewing. The most evidence based-guide available on the topic, and endorsed by the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, this acclaimed resource applies the proven 5-Step approach which integrates patient and clinical centered skills to improve effectiveness without adding extra time to the interview duration.

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Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing covers important topics such as:
•Patient Education
•Motivating for behavior change
•Breaking bad news
•Managing different personality types
•Increasing personal awareness in mindful practice
•Nonverbal communication
•Using computers in the exam room
•Reporting and presenting evaluations
The book’s user-friendly design features icons, boxed case vignettes, and the use of color to highlight key points. Learning aids include practice exercises in each chapter, a pocket card, lists of essential questions, and graphics that facilitate understanding and retention.
If you are in need of an evidence-based text that provides a proven systematic framework for taking an effective history, your search ends here.

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Injection Techniques in Musculoskeletal Medicine: A Practical Manual for Clinicians in Primary and Secondary Care 5th Edition

The fully updated fifth edition of Injection Techniques in Musculoskeletal Medicine is a trusted step-by-step guide for a wide range of practitioners who deal with the management of painful joints and soft tissues, particularly in relation to sports and overuse injuries.

Area by area guidance is given for each lesion on appropriate patient selection and delivery of the drug. Every technique has its own two-page spread; the first consisting of a detailed but easy to follow description of the causes, positive assessment findings, anatomical details and injection procedure. The facing page shows an anatomical illustration of the region and a photograph showing the landmarks for the injection. This edition features brand new full colour photographs and case studies

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An online trainer, which covers all the most common injection techniques and aims to test the reader’s knowledge, accompanies this edition. This trainer uses case studies, videos, animations and interactive self assessment on anatomical landmarks, differential diagnoses, assessment criteria, drug selection and technical skills. There is also access to a library of over 50 video clips showing supplementary injection techniques which clearly demonstrate the correct anatomical position for each needle insertion.

• Illustrations, references, lesions, drugs, controversies

• Chapters on Other Injectable Substances; Landmark and Image Guided Injections

• Latest evidence in injection therapy literature

• Adapted and simplified practical sections

• Brand new full colour photographs

• Case studies

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OSCE PASSCARDS for Medical Students

Mrs Smith was prescribed Flucloxacillin despite being penicillin allergic, and suffered an anaphylactic reaction. Her husband now wishes to speak to you. You were not present at the time and you are not sure of what happened, however, he demands to speak to you as you are a doctor and part of the team looking after her. What do you do?

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These 96 invaluable flashcards thoroughly test OSCE candidates on correct procedure for a wealth of topics from taking blood to managing advanced life support, scrubbing for theatre to breaking bad news. Each topic is presented in an easy-to-read table, detailing best practice, including pertinent questions, tests to perform, possible responses and suspected diagnoses. Expertly laid out, the small, A5 format makes for easy handling – ideal for revision and self-examination.

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Deconstructing the Osce (Oxford Specialty Training) 1st Edition

The OSCE forms the practical part of educational and professional medical examinations and is often challenging and expensive. Deconstructing the OSCE takes a fresh approach to passing OSCE exams, teaching readers how to tackle the exam in a new way. This book doesn’t provide checklists of information needed for specific OSCE stations; instead it helps readers to develop generic strategies and skills that will lead to success in any OSCE exam regardless of specialty or level.

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Packed full of advice, practical tips, real life examples and exercises, this book will prepare candidates with the skills to prepare for effective OSCE study and strategies for overcoming common psychological hurdles and baggage. It also explores how to overcome past failures in the OSCE by overhauling previous study routines and suggesting new strategies for the road ahead.

Ideal for trainee doctors sitting PACES, CASC or other OSCEs, medical students, allied medical practitioners, nurses and medical practitioners from overseas, Deconstructing the OSCE is full of practical advice to increase candidates’ confidence and improve the chance of success in any OSCE scenario.

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OSCE Guide for the ABA Applied Examination

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The OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) component of the ABA Applied exam is a new concept that involves a number of ‘live’ practical stations in which candidates must demonstrate communication, professionalism and technical skills to the examiners. This book covers topics that are outlined in the ABA curriculum, presented in a way that emulates the OSCE exam setting, and will help candidates prepare for the exam and test their knowledge. Each station is constructed in clear, logical fashion to make the revision of individual topics more accessible. The sample questions and answers allow self-testing and are complemented by discussions, numerous illustrations and up-to-date clinical guidelines which follow modern-day anesthetic practice. The OSCE Guide for the ABA Applied Examination is a must-have resource which will help candidates further understand and prepare for the OSCE process.https://emedicalbooks.com/

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Wall & Melzack’s Textbook of Pain: Expert Consult – Online and Print 6th Edition

Apply the latest scientific and clinical advances with Wall & Melzack’s Textbook of Pain, 6th Edition. Drs. Stephen McMahon, Martin Koltzenburg, Irene Tracey, and Dennis C. Turk, along with more than 125 other leading authorities, present all of the latest knowledge about the genetics, neurophysiology, psychology, and assessment of every type of pain syndrome. They also provide practical guidance on the full range of today’s pharmacologic, interventional, electrostimulative, physiotherapeutic, and psychological management options.

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• Benefit from the international, multidisciplinary knowledge and experience of a “who’s who” of international authorities in pain medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, palliative medicine, and other relevant fields.
• Access the complete contents online anytime, anywhere at www.expertconsult.com.

 

• Translate scientific findings into clinical practice with updates on the genetics of pain, new pharmacologic and treatment information, and much more.
• Easily visualize important scientific concepts with a high-quality illustration program, now in full color throughout.
• Choose the safest and most effective management methods with expanded coverage of anesthetic techniques.
• Stay abreast of the latest global developments regarding opioid induced hyperalgesia, addiction and substance abuse, neuromodulation and pain management, identification of specific targets for molecular pain, and other hot topics.

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The Definitive Guide to the OSCE: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination as a performance assessment

The new book is the definitive text on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), providing an easily accessible account of the breadth and depth of experience gained worldwide from its use in a wide range of contexts and in different phases of education.  The lessons learned from these diverse experiences are included throughout the text.

Used globally in all phases of education in the different healthcare professions, the OSCE was first described by the lead author, Harden, in 1975 and it is now the gold standard for performance assessment.

• This book provides a full understanding of the basic concepts underpinning the OSCE and shows how to implement an OSCE effectively and efficiently in a variety of contexts.
• It includes case studies demonstrating the use of the OSCE in practice in a range of different fields.
• Practical guidelines and tips are provided based on the authors’ extensive experience.

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Short Cases in Clinical Medicine

AThis book will serve as a helpful learning manual for undergraduate and PG students preparing for MBBS, FCPS, MD, MRCP, FRACP or any other equivalent examination in internal medicine or any other related subspecialty.

• An easy book to learn the approach in common short cases with the basic knowledge and skill, essential for presentation and interpretation in any examination.
• A complete outline of comprehensive medical encounter including physical examination and interpretation of gathered information to formulate a diagnosis.
• Provides short notes and brief discussions on various common diseases, helpful for a quick review without going through voluminous textbooks.
• 800 coloured photographs are there to help the students to develop a good clinical eye.
• Easy to understand, concise, yet full of necessary information.

Some new short cases like “Inferior vena caval obstruction”, “Tricuspid stenosis”, “Pulmonary regurgitation”, “Lobectomy and pneumonectomy”, “Rheumatoid lung”, “Polycythemia Rubra Vera” including many others are added. Also, new investigations and latest treatment protocols of many diseases are added, such as Filariasis, DVT, Atrial fibrillation, pneumothorax, consolidation, Kala-azar etc.

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