Macleod's Clinical Exam

[318038]

Anyone have any experience with this text? I figure now is the best time to hone my physical exam skills since I am on IM and this book came highly recommended from one of my attendings.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

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[OveractiveBrain]

Anyone have any experience with this text? I figure now is the best time to hone my physical exam skills since I am on IM and this book came highly recommended from one of my attendings.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

Never heard of it. For the novice, I've always heard Bates. For someone with practice (intermediate to advanced) jump to Sapira's Art and Science.

For going through the motions, I was a fan of this site http://opeta.medinfo.ufl.edu/

Intended to be for UF students, but they are very well produced videos for the Novice. Some of the explanations aren't 100% correct, but they show you how to do a pretty decent physical exam. Monkey See, then Monkey do.

Most importantly, get your residents to show you how to do it right, and hopefully correlate with Ultrasound or Radiographic findings!

 

[bambi]

Anyone have any experience with this text? I figure now is the best time to hone my physical exam skills since I am on IM and this book came highly recommended from one of my attendings.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

Most med students in the UK use this book at some point. I would say it is much better than bates but not as good as the oxford handbook of clinical examination. In my 3rd and 4th years I would use a mixture of books but never really bates because it missed so much stuff. There is another really good set of books I used for finals, essential osce something, pale yellow cover.

 

[Bacchus]

I've been told by my intern, residents, and some attendings this book is good. I had an attending yesterday tell me to buy a book pre-Civil War, though, since there was no technology back then 😉.

 

[318038]

Great, thanks guys! I think I will go ahead and get this one since Bates is soooooo long.