Mastering each aspect of the patient interview and physical exam is fundamental to medical education, resulting in more accurate diagnostic skills, more effective patient management, and better patient outcomes! Dr. Swartz’s Textbook of Physical Diagnosis is a highly respected reference in this critical area, offering a compassionate, humanistic approach to the art and science of interviewing and physical examination. From cover to cover, you’ll learn how your interpersonal awareness is just as important in physical diagnosis as your level of skill – and why clinical competence in this area is essential for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and all members of the healthcare profession.
Key Features
- Explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs – which may affect your approach to a patient’s treatment.
- Features hundreds of high-quality color images, an easy-to-use design, and detailed descriptions of practical techniques throughout.
- Offers clear, easy-to-understand explanations of interviewing and examination techniques, clinical presentations, pathophysiology, complementary and alternative medicine, and physical diagnosis standards and tests. All chapters completely reviewed and revised.
- Features a new chapter on deconstructing racism and bias in clinical medicine.
- Provides expanded coverage of the musculoskeletal system with more specialty examinations of joints.
- Emphasizes precision, accuracy, and critical thinking in clinical assessment.
- Highlights clinical ethics and professionalism.
- Includes more than 6 hours of in-depth video, featuring step-by-step key aspects of the physical examination for adults, toddlers, and newborns, important interviewing scenarios, and audio of heart and lung sounds.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
"This edition is a tremendous augmentation to the standard approaches to teaching the history and physical examination to medical students. It gives the traditional perspective and greatly improves the educational process by addressing the diversity concepts and the need for professionalism that medical students must keep in mind."
-Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) Doody's Review Score: 100-5 Stars!
I am chairman of the department of Clinical skills at Alfaisal university. We offer 5 semester long courses during semester 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. These courses cover communications skills, basic clinical skills, History taking, physical examination, interpretational and procedural skills. This is our main resource book for all checklists, handouts and OSCE preparation. I highly recommend.
Excellent and timely section on racism and bias in medicine. Although written for an American audience, many of the themes regarding bias were still relevant. I will recommend this chapter as essential for my students.