Guide to Clinical Examination/Quick Guide

This is just a quick guide to various history and examinations.

The pages are mostly quick bulleted points, designed to be used on their own when practising a particular exam station. Things that you might want to say to the examiner appear in quotation marks "like this".

They should keep everything in a logical order, and minimise the amount a patient has to move around.

History and assessment

• General medical history
• Psychiatric history
• Self-harm or suicide attempt

Examination

• Quick examination of everything (useful for clerking in a patient)
• Cardiovascular examination
• Respiratory examination
• Combined cardiovascular and respiratory examination
• Gastrointestinal examination
• Abdominal examination
• Neurological examination
• Musculoskeletal examination

Advice giving

These tend to vary more from place to place. We have tried to stay general, without being to vague. Just use your common sense when using them.

• Cutting down alcohol
• Stop smoking
• Asthma inhaler