Clinical Skills

This is a blog about clinical skills or bedside skills. That is the skills needed for a successful doctor patient relationship. The skills are history taking skills, physical examination skills and communication skills. The discussion on this blog is based on the book: ACES for PACES advanced clinical evaluation system for practical assessment of clinical examination skills by ajith jayasekera

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Respiratory Examination MRCP PACES

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We were teaching for MRCP PACES yesterday and had a patient with a common problem but the examination showed up common mistakes made by cand...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

SOCRATES versus ACES mnemonic

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I was teaching a medical student this afternoon. I discussed history taking with him. I asked him how he would analyse a patient’s symptoms ...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Neurology for MRCP PACES

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We saw a very interesting case when teaching for PACES After the initial examination and presentation of findings we went through the case a...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Differentiating Murmurs of Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation

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One of the questions I was asked at the recent IBC Dubai PACES course was how would one differentiate the systolic murmurs of aortic stenosi...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

History Taking, Communication and Ethics for MRCP PACES

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Many candidates and unfortunately many from outside the UK do not do well in these two stations. One of the main reasons for this is failure...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Cardiovascular Examination

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We had another good case at the recently concluded MRCP PACES course conducted by IBC in Dubai. The patient was a young child who looked sma...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Respiratory Examination

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We saw another good case at the Dubai MRCP PACES course run by IBC. The patient was a young Asian male man who seemed of normal height and w...
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