Clinical case-taking

Psychiatric Case-Taking Cards

Taking the Case: An Evaluation of Digital Case Study Libraries

Case study libraries have emerged from the development of educational resource tools as a potent contender due to their accessibility and flexibility in supporting various aspects of a learning curriculum. However, despite their advantages, the effective realization of such a tool presents a number of design challenges in its implementation. This study explores the ability of a collection of su...

History Taking and Physical Examination—Essentials and Clinical Correlates

tissue structure, then goes on to examine types and causes of cellular damage and the subsequent patterns of disease responses. A section on trauma, for example, illustrates a subdural hemorrhage, a gunshot wound, and fat emboli, among others. The text accompanying each chapter, however, remains predominantly brief and generally emphasizes the histological appearance, more so than the pathologi...

Taking a fresh look at the pediatric clinical experience.

The National League for Nursing’s (NLN) fi nal report from the Think Tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education (2008) challenges the paradigm of the traditional “clinical rotation” and questions the practice of placing students exclusively in an inpatient unit to complete a set of tasks. This report prompted me, a veteran clinical instructor, to take a fresh look at how we structure the p...

Inadequacies in History Taking and Clinical Examination by the Dentists

History taking and clinical examination are the most important steps in the diagnosis and hence overall patient management in medicine, surgery and dentistry. The purpose of this study was to determine the history taking and clinical examination practices of dentists. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among two hundred randomly selected dentists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The ...