Mastering the Medical Long Case

The book is to assist medical students and trainee doctors who are preparing to take clinical examinations that include a long case. There has been a recent review of medical school curricula and all medical schools have recognised the "Long Case? as an integral part of the learning and examination process of the medical program. The book explains the scientific and clinical basis of long case assessment and how long case mastery provides the doctor with the confidence and aptitude to practice medicine from clinical assessment to definitive treatment. The book deals with the different subspeci.

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Front Cover; Mastering the medical long case; Copyright Page; Contents; Author's note; Preface; Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Part 01 -- Clinical assessments; CHAPTER 01 Approach to the long case; To the physician trainee; To the medical student; CHAPTER 02 Approach to various common symptoms; SYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT; PAIN; DYSPNOEA; FEVER; JOINT PAIN/STIFFNESS; FALLS; DIZZINESS; SPECIFIC DISEASES AND CONDITIONS; CHAPTER 03 Cardiology; HYPERTENSION; ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE AND ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; CONGESTIVE CARDIAC FAILURE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION.

CHAPTER 04 Respiratory medicineASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD); BRONCHIECTASIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; PNEUMONIA; CHAPTER 05 Neurology; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; STROKE AND TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK; EPILEPSY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; DEPRESSION; CHAPTER 06 Nephrology; ACUTE RENAL FAILURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE); CHAPTER 07 Oncology; COMMON MALIGNANCIES; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOMA OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY; CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE; CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG; CANCER OF THE COLON; CANCER OF THE HEAD AND NECK; CHAPTER 08 Haematology; ANAEMIA.

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