2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
Instructions
You are an intern on the medical ward. It is 10 am, and the nurse has called you to see Kenneth Lau, 78, admitted six days ago with pneumonia, who has had frequent watery bowel motions since yesterday afternoon.
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Take a focused history
2
Examine the patient
3
Outline to the examiner:
Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
Next steps in management, including relevant investigations
Please verbalise your examination; findings will be provided on request
You do not need to summarise your findings
Practising alone? Ask the examinerFindings appear only when you ask for them
Investigations
Examination
After treatment
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