Clinical History & Examination

This guide has been assembled with an eye towards clinical relevance. It represents a departure from the usual physical exam teaching tools which, in their attempts to be all inclusive, tend to emphasize the practical nature of patient care. As a result, students frequently have difficulty identifying what information is truly relevant, why it's important and how it applies to the actual patient. By approaching clinical medicine in a pragmatic and demystified fashion, the significance of the material should be readily apparent and the underlying principles more clearly understood.

I hope that this app helps to make the educational process both fun and rewarding. As the skills required of a physician cannot be learned from any single source, I encourage you to make use of as many other references as possible. This should reinforce basic principles and alert you to the fact that there are often many ways of achieving the same end (i.e. there is frequently no single right way of doing something). What follows, then, serves merely as an introduction. I have tried to capture those core behaviors that define clinical excellence and will have prolonged applicability, even in a technology driven world. The learning process continues (I hope) until the day you stop practicing medicine. There are always new techniques to learn and unusual findings to incorporate into your personal libraries of medical experience. However, unless you take the time to build a solid foundation, you will never have confidence in the accuracy and value of what you can uncover with a sharp mind, agile fingers and a few simple tools!.

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本指南的组合着眼于临床相关性。它代表了与通常的体检教学工具的不同之处，这些教学工具在试图全面包容时倾向于强调患者护理的实际性质。因此，学生经常难以确定哪些信息真正相关，为什么重要以及它如何适用于实际患者。通过以务实和神秘的方式接近临床医学，材料的重要性应该是显而易见的，并且更清楚地理解基本原理。

我希望这个应用程序有助于使教育过程既有趣又有益。由于不能从任何单一来源学习医生所需的技能，我鼓励您尽可能多地使用其他参考资料。这应该强化基本原则，并提醒您通常有很多方法可以达到同样的目的（即通常没有单一的正确方法）。接下来，仅作为介绍。我试图捕捉那些定义临床卓越性的核心行为，并且即使在技术驱动的世界中也会延长适用性。学习过程继续（我希望），直到你停止练习药物的那一天。总会有新的技术学习和不寻常的发现融入您的个人医疗体验库。然而，除非你花时间建立一个坚实的基础，否则你将永远不会对你用敏锐的头脑，灵活的手指和一些简单的工具发现的东西的准确性和价值充满信心！

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