CLINICAL EVALUATION AT MENOPAUSE: HISTORY, CLINICAL EXAMINATION, INVESTIGATION : MINIMUM & IDEAL

Necessity of introducing postencounter note describing history and physical examination at clinical performance examination in Korea.

PURPOSE Information gathering ability had been evaluated mainly via checklists in clinical performance examinations (CPX). But, it is not proved yet if students write the information correctly in postencounter note (PN), although they asked questions or performed physical examinations (PE) about the information when they interacted with standardized patients in CPX. This study addressed the nec...

Evaluation of an objective structured clinical examination.

An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was introduced at the end of the fourth year undergraduate paediatric training. We have compared the results obtained with those of our traditional method of assessment. We feel that the OSCE is a valid and reliable assessment; it provided good feedback and was well received by the students.

CLINICAL REVIEW Managing the menopause

Training Methods of Clinical Breast Examination

With respect to the important role of clinical examination in breast lesion diagnosis, training of Clinical Breast Examination (CBE) to medical students are very critical. Despite the various method of physical examination, the current methods like using patients especially about breast aren’t accepted because of various reasons. Until now, any review studies about the optimum method of CBE hav...

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...