The last two days have been pretty packed with lectures and case work. We have skipped through vomiting, diarrhoea, weight loss, epistaxis, pale mucous membranes, jaundice, haematuria, coughing and dyspnoea, weakness-syncope-seizures and last, but not least, PU/PD. This whirlwind tour has been designed to get us thinking again after the Christmas break and aims to get us to consider possible clinical presentations and how we can use the clues from a history, presentation and clinical exam to work logically through cases to achieve a diagnosis. The concept is simple and the feedback from clinicians teaching current final years is that these students are measurably better at clinical problem solving. There is only one problem: I am absolutely terrible at it! Incidentally, the logical approach to clinical problem solving also runs as a CPD course (http://cpd.rvc.ac.uk) and I would recommend it very highly.
No comments:
Post a Comment