Davidson's Foundations of Clinical Practice
By- Hazel Scott, MD, FRCP, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, West of Scotland Deanery, Glasgow; Professor of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow; Consultant Respiratory Physician, NHS Lanarkshire, Wishaw, UK
- Kevin Blyth, MD, MRCP, Specialist Registrar in Respiratory and General Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
- Jeremy Jones, MBChB, MRCP, Radiology Registrar, West Yorkshire Radiology Academy, Leeds, UK.
This book is designed as a companion to the initial years of hospital training for junior doctors in training, including, but not limited to, the core elements of the curriculum for Foundation Training in the UK. Patients have co-morbidity and mixed patterns of clinical presentation and thus the book brings together the key guidance on the presentation and care of all those who attend within a wide range of disciplines. These appear in the book as they present in real life, according to symptoms. Given the balance of the type of work done by most trainee hospital doctors, the emphasis of the book is on acute, as compared with chronic, symptom presentation and effective management.
Paperback,
Published: June 2009
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-06829-4
Contents
- Section 1 Basic principles of patient care
Initial assessment and emergency management
Use of equipment and procedures
Interpreting tests
Drugs and prescribing
Section 2 Symptoms and related acute presentations
Cardiac and chest
Abdominal
Endocrine, electrolyte and renal
Neurological and psychiatric
Sepsis, shock and trauma
Section 3 Specialties and cancers
Specialty acute presentations
Cancers and palliative care
Section 4 Everyday life as a junior doctor
On the ward
Legal and ethical practice
Looking after yourself
Developing a career
Working as part of the system of care
Working in the UK
