CLINCAL PROBLEM SOLVING INTRODUCTION

Aim
How clinical medicine is learned
Think like a doctor.

Learning objectives
1-Describe the types of information that may be collected from a patient
2-Define the concept of ‘clinical presentation’ and ‘diagnosis’
3-Describe how to use a ‘concept map’ to link relevant material to a
diagnosis.
4-Describe the process of ‘encapsulation’ of basic science in its
application to clinical medicine.

Clinical problem solving:
-Merging information collected from a patient,
Ideas and concepts
Diagnosis .
Construction of a management plan in collaboration
with the patient

Information collected from a patient is in three
categories:
1-Symptoms:
These are things that a patient reports to you, such as
a pain in some part of their body, feeling breathless,
feeling tired, or changes that they have noticed about
themselves.

2-Signs:
This is information you collect by examining a patient.
looking at the patient (inspection)
feeling the patient with your hands (palpation))

listening to some part of the patient, usually with a
stethoscope (auscultation)
Tapping a patient to elicit a sound or response
(percussion)