Helping Hands: An Introduction to Diagnostic Strategy and Clinical Reasoning

Key features:

• Encourages a conscious approach to clinical reasoning – ‘see’ rather than just ‘look’

• Develops an understanding of why all clinicians can be responsible for diagnostic mistakes and how, with a raised awareness, they can work towards avoiding error

• Outlines approaches that can be used when taking a history and when examining patients in any clinical setting

• Bundled e-book for use ‘on the go’ while the companion website provides additional materials for students and lecturers including self-assessment questions and teaching guidance

Outlining the process of formulating and refining an initial diagnosis, in using this book the medical student or junior doctor will develop a critical self-awareness of the strategies they employ in assessing patients, learn how to improve and enhance their skills, and feel enabled to craft an appropriate management plan.