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Comment on The importance of a good handover between doctors by admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:52:08 +0000

We would reccomend most medical students to try and sit in in one of the ‘hospital at night’ handovers, it does give a real perspective on how the multi-disciplinary team should be working overnight. So much can go so right if these are done properly, and the converse is also true.

Comment on The 10 things you need to know to Master OSCE Clinical Exam Technique by admin

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:50:47 +0000

Absolutely, it can be really difficult. You’ll often find quite senior doctors getting quite a hard time from consultants when they take this approach.

When you look at the main types of clinical reasoning, some people prefer a hypothetico-deductive approach, others prefer to use things like ‘illness scripts’ to memorise key features of cases so you can give the correct answer.

One interesting factor suggested by an editorial in the NEJM (content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/355/21/2217) was the fact that learning to concisely syntehsise representations of clinical problems is an important part of the student become an expert.

If you’re asked-what are the main causes of hypercalcaemia, you’re not going to look clever if you put down ’sarcoid’ (a rare but possible cause) over primary hyperparathyroidism (probably the commonest cause for incidental finding of hypercalcaemia). So it is difficult, and you probably have to master a bit of everything.

Comment on 10 things you need to know to Master OSCE Clinical Exam Technique (part 2) by elham

elham — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:34 +0000

thanks a lot I find these information very useful to me

Comment on Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next? by Glidingdoc

Glidingdoc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:10:36 +0000

What was the pathology seen on fundoscopy?

Comment on The 10 things you need to know to Master OSCE Clinical Exam Technique by K.Pirabo

K.Pirabo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:27:42 +0000

It’s cool. but some examiners don’t like the orthodox way of presentation,rather what they expect is the impression,(inference)i.e the most probable diagnosis or the differential diagnoses.

Comment on Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next? by K.Pirabo

K.Pirabo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:59:32 +0000

It seems that she has the right eye is visualized here.What appears to me is blurring of the upper & lower margins of the disc,with the disappearance of the physiological cup&slightly distended veins, which implies the early changes of papilloedema.These changes could be due to the benign idiopathin ICP secondry to Steriods what I think.The split S2 on deep inspiration is insignificant.

Comment on Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next? by mary

mary — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:41:20 +0000

i think the answer number three ( reassure for the patient_) because some asthmatic patients had history eczema,migraine headache and hay fever
left eye was seen by opthalmoscopy

Comment on Question of the day: OSCE revision on the wards- what should be done next? by drmustafa

drmustafa — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:43:54 +0000

eczema and allergic bronchitis commonly found in the past medical history of patient with asthma….so reassure the patient is enough….
left eye seen by fundoscope….

Comment on The importance of a good handover between doctors by tranquility

tranquility — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:46:12 +0000

True that. But not many people realise its importance.

Comment on Answer to our medical student fundoscopy question: About a third of you got this right! by admin

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:48:13 +0000

Tom, a thousand apologies, we seem to initially have uploaded a flipped image which was indeed a left eye. We have changed it now! Apologies, and thanks for staying awake whilst reading the blog! The original image in the blog was of course the right eye. That’s worth a free subscription, please email us from your posting address if you have registered for the free trial and we will arrange it. Many thanks.