Eureka: Clinical Skills
Eureka Series

Eureka – an innovative series for students that fully integrates basic science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.

Series features across titles:

• Engaging clinical cases show how skilled clinician would work through a presentation, and put diseases and biomedical principles into patient context
• Innovative graphic narratives bring clinical cases to life, show how to approach difficult scenarios and convey the experience of being a patient
• Starter questions - stimulating answers to intriguing questions make learning fun
• Boxes highlight tips, tricks and key learning points
  
  

Clinical Skills

• Consultation and communications skills chapter clearly explains how to talk, listen and gather information from patients
• Clinical reasoning chapter provides a framework for reaching a correct diagnosis and formulating management plans
• General examination chapter outlines the sequence and skills required to perform a general examination
• Subsequent systems-based chapters list commonly-seen symptoms, relevant history and the key examination skills
• Special circumstances chapter addresses how to examine fragile patients, those in palliative care and patients with no medical history

• Chapter 1 Consultation and communication skills
• Chapter 2 Clinical reasoning
• Chapter 3 General examination
• Chapter 4 Cardiovascular system
• Chapter 5 Respiratory system
• Chapter 6 Gastrointestinal system
• Chapter 7 Genitourinary system
• Chapter 8 Female reproductive system
• Chapter 9 Nervous system
• Chapter 10 Cranial nerves and ophthalmology
• Chapter 11 Musculoskeletal system
• Chapter 12 Psychiatry
• Chapter 13 Endocrine system
• Chapter 14 Paediatrics
• Chapter 15 Critically ill patients
• Chapter 16 Special circumstances

Ben Lovell
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Mark Lander
Specialty Trainee in Acute Medicine, Whittington Health NHS Trust, London, UK

Nick Murch
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London; Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine, Head of Team Based Simulation, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University College London, Acute Medicine Training Programme Director, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK