2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
2 min reading · 8 min station · reminders at 1 min
Instructions
You are a medical student on placement in the surgical outpatient clinic. Your next patient is Beryl Ashcroft, 76, referred by her GP with something coming out of her back passage for six months.
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Take a focused history
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Perform a focused examination
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Outline to the examiner:
Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
Next steps in management, including relevant investigations
You do not need to summarise your findings to the examiner
Verbalise your examination; the examiner will give findings on request
Any intimate examination is performed on a manikin
Practising alone? Ask the examinerFindings appear only when you ask for them
Investigations
Examination
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