Essential Examination, third edition: Step-by-step guides to clinical examination scenarios with practical tips and key facts for OSCEs

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This latest edition of Essential Examination has been comprehensively revised and new sections added If you are learning how to examine patients, or preparing for an OSCE, then you need Essential Examination!

Always have some concluding remarks up your sleeve too – it’s a good way to finish off, and gives the impression that you really know your stuff. Excellent purchase for clinical examination "Excellent for medical students (clinical years mainly). The examiners will evaluate seven key skills: physical examination; identifying physical signs; clinical communication; differential diagnosis; clinical judgement; managing patients’ concerns; maintaining patient welfare.

It is far more than a checklist, it provides essential information without cluttering walls of text between one step and the next. Often in an OSCE you will not be asked to complete the full examination of a particular body system.

Now in full colour, the book is essential reading if you are learning how to examine patients, or preparing for an OSCE. I like the fact it provides a clear step-by-step structure to the assessment and examination of different body systems, with a few pages exploring key presentations and extra information to support clinical reasoning.B. Ruthven, MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), wrote this best-selling clinical exam and OSCE book while he was a medical student. I love the fact that this book is really condensed - has everything that you need to know about each examination in a couple of pages.