Presenting Your Case: A Concise Guide for Medical Students

✍ Scribed by Clifford D. Packer

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Medical students often struggle when presenting new patients to the attending physicians on the ward. Case presentation is either poorly taught or not taught at all in the first two years of medical school. As a result, students are thrust into the spotlight with only sketchy ideas about how to present, prioritize, edit, and focus their case presentations. They also struggle with producing a broad differential diagnosis and defending their leading diagnosis. This text provides a comprehensive guide to give well-prepared, focused and concise presentations. It also allows students to discuss differential diagnosis, incorporate high-value care, educate their colleagues, and participate actively in the care of their patients.

Linking in-depth discussion of the oral presentation with differential diagnosis and high value care, Presenting Your Case is a valuable resource for medical students, clerkship directors and others who educate students on the wards and in the clinic.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
The Importance of a Good Case Presentation and Why Students Struggle with It (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 1-8
Organization of the Oral Case Presentation (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 9-22
Variations on the Oral Case Presentation (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 23-38
The HPI: A Timeline, Not a Time Machine (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 39-55
Pertinent Positives and Negatives (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 57-71
The Diagnostic Power of Description (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 73-81
The Assessment and Plan (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 83-97
Approaches to Differential Diagnosis (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 99-117
Searching and Citing the Literature (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 119-126
Adding Value to the Oral Presentation (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 127-144
Teaching Rounds: Speaking Up, Getting Involved, and Learning to Accept Uncertainty (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 145-154
On Pimping (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 155-165
The Art of the 5-Minute Talk (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 167-176
Future Directions of the Oral Case Presentation (Clifford D. Packer)....Pages 177-186
Back Matter ....Pages 187-196

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; General Practice / Family Medicine