LWW Digital Catalogue 2014

Me d i ca l Edu ca t i on

Prepare your students for exams and patient encounters with Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination. With 8 new hours of examination videos designed with your students in mind, it’s the ideal physical assessment learning system.

What are the learning benefits? Bates’ Visual Guide can be accessed from home, at the library and throughout the campus. It allows students to study at their own pace to supplement classroom learning or to refresh knowledge during clinical placement. Additionally, a downloadable script provides a blueprint to help support and develop

• Dynamic, clinically oriented, head-to-toe assessment videos.

• Interactive OSCE-style exercises to prepare students for exams and patient encounters.

• Access anytime, anywhere on and off campus with this web-based platform.

• Quick and easy searches and intuitive interface.

• Comprehensive and evidence-based - includes assessment techniques, health history, communication and building the patient- practitioner relationship. • Includes patients and examiners with a range of cultural/socio-economic backgrounds to provide students with a solid foundation in examination techniques.

assessment skills during clinicals.

Bates’Guide to Physical Examination and HistoryTaking Bates’ Visual Guide is based

How will the guide help educators? Bates’ Visual Guide was produced in consultation with educators to help prepare students with evidence- based content. The videos include normal and abnormal assessments and the clinical reasoning modules (OSCEs) are designed to promote clinical preparedness. Attention to detail and how to approach the patient with empathy are emphasised.

on the best-selling assessment textbook, now in its eleventh edition. Like the text, the video guide contains foundational content to guide students’ approaches to history taking, interviewing, and other core assessment skills.