Clinical clerkships
Subtitle: the answer book
By: Jeff Wiese ; editors, Stephen Bent, Sanjay Saint.
Contributors: Bent, Stephen.; Saint, Sanjay.
Series: Saint-Frances guide
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: Clinical clerkship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Clinical medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Diagnosis -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Clinical Clerkship -- Handbooks.; Clinical Medicine -- Handbooks.; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- Handbooks.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Handbooks.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The purpose of the answer book; title: Roles and expectations; title: Performing on rounds; title: Ward structure and working with nurses and ancillary staff; title: Common ward pitfalls; title: Bedside skills and dealing with difficult patients; title: Being on call; title: Financial and legal medicine; title: Death and dying; title: Clinical reasoning; title: Taking a history; title: The physical examination and laboratory testing; title: The admission note; title: Finding your way around the chart; title: Other written notes; title: Spoken case presentation : basic principles; title: Spoken case presentation : troubleshooting; title: Spoken case presentation : the intensive care unit; title: Writing orders; title: Organizing patient information; title: Examination fundamentals; title: Vital signs; title: The tier I head and neck examination; title: The tier I lung examination; title: The tier I heart and vascular examination; title: The tier I abdominal examination; title: The tier I extremity examination; title: The tier I neurologic examination; title: The tier II head and neck examination; title: The tier II lung examination; title: The tier II heart and vascular examination; title: The tier II abdominal examination; title: The tier II extremity examination; title: The tier II neurologic examination; title: Breast examination (tier II only); title: Genitourinary and gynecologic examinations (tier II only); title: Internal medicine; title: Surgery; title: Obstetrics and gynecology; title: Pediatrics; title: Psychiatry; title: Working in the outpatient clinic; title: Time management; title: Reading strategies; title: Building a home library.