The Expert Clinician

Bridging the Clinical Divide

Adam Widdison

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781035831999
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Have you noticed that more experienced clinicians manage the consultation differently from you? Quickly, efficiently and effortlessly they collect relevant information, reach an opinion and plan management. How do they do this? How can you become that good? Clearly a good knowledge of medicine and the basic sciences is important, but so is method. Instead of following the traditional history and examination format they tailor the consultation to the patient and the context. They know what questions to ask and which signs to look for. They learn, understand and interpret relevant information to suit the context, to respond to the patient, to meet the aims of the consultation. In The Expert Clinician, the skills needed and methods to use to be an expert clinician are explained and how these can be applied to the consultation described. The Expert Clinician will help you bridge the divide between the traditional "clerking" and the approach used by experienced clinicians. Experienced clinicians will be familiar with a lot of the content and will recognise the methods described. However, they have had to discover this for themselves. You won't have to when you read The Expert Clinician.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowldegement
• Preface
• Introduction
• Overview
• Section 1 The Methods Available and Skills Needed for a Meaningful Consultation
• Chapter 1 The Methods Available and Skills Needed to Establish a Working Relationship
• Chapter 2 The Skills Needed and Methods Available to Exchange Information
• Chapter 3 The Methods Available to Formulate a Diagnosis
• Chapter 4 The Methodology for Planning Management
• Section 2 Application of a Clinical Method to the Consultation
• Chapter 5 Starting the Consultation
• Chapter 6 Learn and Understand Information about the Person
• Chapter 7 Learn and Understand Information about the Person as a Patient
• Chapter 8 Learn and Understand Information about the Problem
• Chapter 9 Learn and Understand Information from the Examination
• Chapter 10 Concluding the Consultation
• Appendix 1: Examples of Checklists
• Appendix 2: Frequently Undertaken Investigations
• Abbreviations