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Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
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What is this book about?
Clinical Reasoning In Medicine
The most difficult aspect of clinical medicine that students and younger doctors struggle with, is applying theory to practice. How do we take an informed history or do a focused physical exam? How do we come to a diagnosis or decide whether to investigate or treat? How do we interpret the test results? When do we start treatment? All difficult questions that few books touch upon let alone elaborate. Yet, this is what every clinician does, day-in, day-out. This is what is tested vigorously in our exams and real life.
The normal trajectory that we follow in learning this, is spread out over several years, if not decades. What if I could help you travel this distance quicker by giving you the essence of it in a book, using clinical examples in real-time? What if I could do this, not in flesh but in spirit, guiding you every step of the way, all the while having a wonderful conversation with you and getting you to crack the problems with me? Would you not enjoy this?
Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine does all this in a nutshell and more! I hope you enjoy it.
p.s. Make sure you avail of the online resource ‘Reflective Action Guide’ on the Wiley website which truly personalises your learning to your own unique environment.
Get to know what's inside!
- Cardiology
- Neurology
- Pulmonology
- Gastroenterology
- Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus
- Geriatric Medicine
- Nephrology
- Rheumatology
- Common Clinical Conditions
3 thoughts on “Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine”
The Hands-on guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine is an excellent book. It is easy to read and full of practical tips. I learned a lot and understood the basis for what I have been doing for decades. I can warmly recommend the book – not only to medical students but also to experienced doctors who want to refresh their knowledge easy and fast.
Yes a very novel approach and good to see worked up examples of the thought processes for many common and varied medical problems. I would be interested to see what student or more junior medical staff thought of this approach as it is different to how I have learned both the knowledge and application aspects. That might be a problem for the book as there is a risk that it falls between the two stalls and is neither a book about reasoning nor knowledge- it depends how students learn these days. The approaches though are very applicable to the style of the new Newcastle curriculum however and very useful for preparation for our clinical exams for students learning how to articulate their thinking.
– Anonymous, Newcastle University
The ‘Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine’ is a great book aimed at medical students. It uses ideas such as concept maps, activities, and cases to take learners through the diagnostic process in an explicit way. This approach is likely to be more useful than a ‘traditional’ textbook when it comes to thinking through real patients’ problems. The book covers the internal medicine curriculum, and there is also an accompanying website. It’s well laid out and easy to read.
It’s designed to be an internal medicine textbook written through a clinical reasoning lens – and the result is a practical book that makes learning more likely to happen. I’d recommend it to medical students, junior doctors, advanced clinical practitioners, and others who need to get to grips with the basics of medicine but in a thoroughly practical and applicable way.