The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment 2E

Clinical assessment is at the heart of medicine. Health professionals working in busy clinical settings, such as general practitioners, nurse practitioners and hospital doctors on-call, often have to assess patients under considerable time constraints. This book teaches the reader how to gather clinical information effectively, accurately and safely even when time is at a premium.

• Provides a systematic method of collecting and assessing relevant clinical information by suggesting step-by-step examination routines, including important patient-centred questions
• Focuses on common symptoms and presentations
• Treatment reflects the latest in evidence based practice (including latest NICE Guidelines)
• Specifically covers the clinical skills assessment (CSA) part of the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) examination
• Written by an experienced medical educator and practicing GP, in consultation with a multidisciplinary team of medical students, GPs, PG trainees, hospital doctors and nurses

Knut Schroeder MSc PhD DCH DRCOG DGM MRCP FRCGP CertMedEd Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice Centre for Academic Primary Care University of Bristol General Practitioner, Bristol