Becoming a Consummate Clinician (What Every Student, House Officer, and Hospital Practitioner Needs to Know) ||

✍ Scribed by Ary L. Goldberger, Zachary D. Goldberger(auth.), Scott A. Flanders, Sanjay Saint(eds.)

• Book ID: 118154010
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1118011430
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118380697

✦ Synopsis

With hospital medicine growing rapidly in both scale and complexity, the learning curve for students is steeper, while experienced physicians are often called upon to act as mentors and caregivers in areas outside their primary fields of expertise. Becoming a Consummate Clinician, an exciting new book in the series Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts, describes in practical terms how clinicians and students can think more critically and act more insightfully in this era of information expansion and time compression. Developed for hospital-based clinicians and physicians-in-training, the book provides a road map for navigating key challenges in real-life medical practice related to assessing, integrating, and presenting clinical information. Clearly formatted and easily accessible, the book:

• Fully integrates and emphasizes error avoidance and reduction
• Highlights uses and limitations of algorithmic and evidence-based medicine in medical decision-making
• Details effective strategies for looking and “re-looking” at biomedical data
• Explains essential do’s and don’ts of medicalpractice, from patient history and exam to differential diagnoses
• Describes best practices and pitfalls of gathering, processing, and communicating medical information
• Presents strategies for attending physicians to develop the critical thinking skills of their trainees

Featuring real-world clinical examples, this concise, down-to-earth text is written to help both practitioners and students improve their overall clinical performance, and learn to communicate effectively with members of the caregiving team.

Content:
Chapter 1 How (Not) to Present a Patient History (pages 11–36):
Chapter 2 Reexamining the Physical Exam (pages 37–66):
Chapter 3 How (Not) to Order and Present Lab Tests (pages 67–80):
Chapter 4 Seeing is (Almost) Believing: The Importance of Reviewing Data (pages 81–91):
Chapter 5 “Worsts First”: How to Frame a Differential Diagnosis (pages 93–102):
Chapter 6 Clinical Queries: Asking the 3? Key Questions (pages 103–112):
Chapter 7 E = MC3: Error Reduction Equals Motivation Times Communication to the Power of 3 (pages 113–129):
Chapter 8 Evidence?Based Medicine: What and Where is the Evidence? (pages 131–144):
Chapter 9 Caution! Dangerous Biomedical Semantics at Work (pages 145–163):
Chapter 10 Some Second Opinions: Outliers, Hoofbeats, and Sutton's (Flawed) Law (pages 165–172):
Chapter 11 A Sixfold Path: From Data to Knowledge to Understanding (pages 173–180):
Chapter 12 What is Disease? What is Health? (pages 181–194):