Medical student resources

• The content on this site is an attempt to provide a study plan for medical students approaching their clinical exams.
• It does not detail the actual content but helps to direct and prioritise the learning requirements.
• The abbreviated reading list that is provided is entirely adequate (with very few exceptions) to cover a standard syllabus.
• Understanding the principles of care are not in themselves adequate for independent practice but they are critical to interpreting and acquiring the knowledge based required to do so.  In an unfamiliar situation, sound application of principles may be the difference between a pass or fail in an exam or life and death for a patient.
• The guides are felt to be comprehensive enough to cover a student curriculum. 
• Nothing substitutes for hard work, consistent application, thoughtful reflection and enthusiastic involvement on the wards.  The material on this site is in constant refinement and minor additions, amendments and revisions may occur without notice.

• Medical maxims
• Anti-maxims

Study guide

• Good advice
• A Useful reading list
• Making a study plan
• Making study notes
• Exam preparation
• Study guide, OSCEs
• Study guide - Key conditions (Master Index)
• OSCE / clinical scenarios (Paediatrics)
• OSCE / clinical (Obstetrics)
• Study guide - Therapeutics
• Clinical attachments

Developing clinical learning issues

• Introduction
• Psychiatric case
• Medical case
• Obstetric case
• Paediatric case

Special patients

• Paediatric patients
• Psychiatric patients
• Peri-operative patients

Assessment

• History taking
• The art of history taking
• Core Clinical skills and examination
• The Short Case
• Problem list
• The Unreliable historian

Case formulation

• Clinical examination and 'Short Cases'
• Case synthesis and presentation - 'The Long Case'

Medical documentation

• Progress notes - SOAPE style
• Writing a discharge letter

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