The Basics
Before we start, some really basic stuff you guys should know. At the first day of any posting, the students will be required to meet up in the Associate’s Dean Office (somewhere in each hospital) and meet up with the administrator. Most of the time there will be a welcome talk (sometimes they have breakfast receptions ^^) and you will be given the names (impt) and pager numbers (impt) of your respective tutors.
Tutorials can be in a small group (meaning just you and your CG members or they can be involving the entire group that is posted at that hospital. For small group tutorials, there are 2 kinds of tutorial: Long Case and Short Cases. You WILL have to contact your doctor to fix a time for your tutorials. Thus, remember that you are RESPONSIBLE for your own tutorials. And of course, do not page or irritate your tutors too often. Most of them give 1-2 tutorials a week.
In a Long case, your doctor would get you to clerk a patient before the actual tutorial and you will have to present the case in front of the doc and your CG mates. Long Case involves both a clinical history and also a physical examination. Details of how to take a history and how to do a physical examination can be found in books like Clinical Examination (Talley & O Conner) for medicine and Introduction to the symptoms and signs of surgical disease (Browse). Details of books of medicine/surgery will be included at a later section of this guide.
In a Short case, the doctors will bring the students to various beds of his patients and students will be requested to perform a physical examination on the patient. At each tutorial, the doctor will generally go through the signs and symptoms of the patient having such a disease. The investigations, i.e. the diagnostics tests you would order for the patient and also the management of the patient.
Index Overview of M3 Basics General Hospital Layout General pointers in clinical work
Main Objectives of the various postings Books Case Write-ups Presentations
On-line resources General Tips for Exams Ethics