Publisher's Synopsis
Eureka - an innovative series for students that fully integrates basic science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.
Series features across titles:
- Engaging clinical cases show how skilled clinician would work through a presentation, and put diseases and biomedical principles into patient context
- Innovative graphic narratives bring clinical cases to life, show how to approach difficult scenarios and convey the experience of being a patient
- Starter questions - stimulating answers to intriguing questions make learning fun
- Boxes highlight tips, tricks and key learning points
Clinical Skills
- Consultation and communications skills chapter clearly explains how to talk, listen and gather information from patients
- Clinical reasoning chapter provides a framework for reaching a correct diagnosis and formulating management plans
- General examination chapter outlines the sequence and skills required to perform a general examination
- Subsequent systems-based chapters list commonly-seen symptoms, relevant history and the key examination skills
- Special circumstances chapter addresses how to examine fragile patients, those in palliative care and patients with no medical history
