The Concise Guide to Medical History Taking

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-91473-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

This concise medical reference is designed to help medical students, doctors, nurses and physician's associates apply best practice to the taking of effective medical histories. It provides informative but succinct guidance for clinical professionals on how to capture and interpret a medical history from their patients. The approach presented is new and innovative, and based on expert medical opinion and in depth research with senior clinical leads from multiple medical and surgical specialities from the UK's leading virtual hospital.   makes use of the development of new patient-focussed medical history tools, where the essential elements of clinical history taking have been refined and improved in order to develop a meaningful and relevant way of taking a clinical history whilst avoiding much of the traditional filler content that is taught traditionally. The question sets are now more user friendly, discriminating and linked to the underlying set of differential diagnoses. This reflects an updated approach to clinical history taking, seeking tangible benefits, based on the evidence of what has been found to be most useful in real world clinical practice.   With a foreword by Dr Richard Chudleigh, Consultant Physician & Diabetologist, Singleton Hospital, Associate Professor, Swansea University Medical School

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction & background history taking.- The cardiac system.- The respiratory system.- The gastroenterology system.- The endocrine system.- Dermatology.- The haematological system.- The renal & urological system.- Taking a gynaecological & sexual history.- The ophthalmological system.- The rheumatological system.- Ear, nose and throat.- A psychiatric history.- Taking a family history.- What’s relevant in the social history.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Grant is a former Consultant Physician and award-winning medical educationalist. He is a tutor and dissertation supervisor on the Medical Education MSc course at the University of South Wales. He has previously served as part of the MRCP examinations question writing group and as a PACES examiner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Diabetes, and his previous books include The Virtual Hospital (Springer Nature) and The Gestational Diabetes Survival Guide (Sheldon Press)'.