Presenting Your Case A Concise Guide for Medical Students /

• Main Author: Packer, Clifford D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; General Practice / Family Medicine.

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 pres...

Table of Contents:

• The Importance of a Good Case Presentation, and Why Students Struggle with It
• Organization of the Oral Case Presentation
• Variations on the Oral Case Presentation
• The HPI: A Timeline, Not a Time Machine
• Pertinent Positives and Negatives
• The Diagnostic Power of Description
• The Assessment and Plan
• Approaches to Differential Diagnosi
• Searching and Citing the Literature
• Adding Value to the Oral Presentation
• Teaching Rounds: Speaking Up, Getting Involved, and Learning to Accept Uncertainty
• On Pimping
• The Art of the Five-Minute Talk
• Future Directions of the Oral Case Presentation.