Talley and O'Connor's Examination Medicine A Guide to Physician Training

Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skills
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.
For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.
This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.

• Suitable for every level of medical student in Australia and New Zealand as well as those in the UK, Ireland, Canada and across Asia and Africa - from pre-clinical studies through to final exams
• Offers a systematic approach to physical examination and history taking
• Includes all important specialties - including women’s health, paediatrics, mental health, and acute care
• Fully updated with the latest evidence, references and historical notes
• Content organised to maximise comprehension, with supporting full-colour figures, comments, footnotes and aide-memoires
• Additional online material to support learning

• New section on dermatology and skin colour and the racial differences in disease
• Content displayed separately for junior and more advanced students
• New videos demonstrating physical examination techniques