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ABDOMEN EXAMINATION
ABDOMINAL PAIN – HISTORY
ABG – BLOOD SAMPLING
ALGOMENORRHOEA – DISCUSS MANAGEMENT (PAIN RELIEF)
AMENORRHOEA (SECONDARY) – COUNSELLING
AMITRIPTILINE – COUNSELLING (SIDE EFFECTS)
ANKLE STRAIN MANAGEMENT
ANOREXIA NERVOSA – HISTORY & MANAGEMENT
ANTEPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE – HISTORY & MANAGEMENT
ANTIDEPRESSANT THERAPY – COUNSELLING
APPENDICITIS IN CHILD – COUNSEL A PARENT
ASTHMATIC PT – COUNSEL RE MANAGEMENT (SALBUTAMOL, STEROID INHALER, PREDNISOLONE TAB.)

B

BASIC LIFE SUPPORT
BLOOD SAMPLING IV
BLOOD SAMPLING FOR ABG
B.P. MEASUREMENT
BREAST EXAMINATION
BREATHLESSNESS – HISTORY (LVF)

C

CARBAMAZEPINE – COUNSELLING
CATHETERISATION
CERVICAL SMEAR
CHEST PAIN – HISTORY AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
CHILD ABUSE – HISTORY
CHRONIC BACK PAIN UNCONTROLLED WITH PARACETAMOL – DISCUSS FURTHER MANAGEMENT
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME – HISTORY & COUNSELLING
COLPOSCOPY
COMATOSE PATIENT – NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
CONVULSIONS IN CHILD – HISTORY & COUNSELLING
CONSTIPATION – HISTORY FROM A NURSE (PATIENT ON DIHYDROCODEIN)
COUGH IN A SMOKER – HISTORY
CPR – ADULT
CPR – CHILD
CRANIAL NERVES II – VII EXAMINATION (HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA)
CVS EXAMINATION

D

DEPRESSION AFTER WHIPLASH INJURY - COUNSELLING
DEPRESSION – HISTORY
DEPRESSION – MENTAL STATE ASSESSMENT
DIABETIC FOOT EXAMINATION
DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS – MANAGEMENT
DIABETIC PATIENT – ANNUAL CHECK-UP
DIARRHOEA IN CHILD – COUNSEL MOTHER
DIZZINESS – EXAMINE VIII CRANIAL NERVE
DIZZINESS – HISTORY AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DOSE CALCULATION
DRUG ABUSE COUNSELLING (HEROIN, WANTS TO QUIT)
DYSMENORRHOEA – TAKE HISTORY & DISCUSS MANAGEMENT WITH THE EXAMINER
DYSPHAGIA – HISTORY
DYSURIA (BURNING & POOR STREAM) – HISTORY AND COUNSELLING (DISCUSS MANAGEMENT)

E

ear EXAMINATION (INCL. TUNING FORK)
ECLAMPSIA – COUNSELLING
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY – COUNSELLING (PT WANTS TO GO HOME)
EPILEPSY NEWLY DIAGNOSED - COUNSELLING
EPILEPSY UNCONTROLLED BY CARBAMAZEPIN – HISTORY & COUNSELLING
EXCESSIVE CRY IN A NEWBORN – COUNSEL MOTHER

F

FALLING ON OUTSTRETCHED ARM – DISCUSS MANAGEMENT WITH THE EXAMINER (SCAPHOID FR.)
FEBRILE CONVULSIONS IN CHILD – HISTORY & COUNSELLING
FEMUR FRACTURE – SECONDARY SURVEY
FEVER – HISTORY (PNEUMONIA)
FEVER IN 2 Y.O. CHILD – COUNSEL MOTHER
FOREIGN BODY INGESTION IN A CHILD – COUNSEL MOTHER
FUNDOSCOPY

G

GONORRHOEA – HISTORY & COUNSELLING, CONTACT TRACING
GCS ASSESSMENT & NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION

H

HAEMOPTYSIS IN ELDERLY WOMAN – HISTORY
HAEMORRHAGE ON FUNDOSCOPY IN CHILD
HEADACHE – COUNSELLING (CLUSTER HEADACHES)
HEADACHE – HISTORY
heart FAILURE – EXAMINATION
HAEMATURIA – HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT (BLADDER CARCINOMA)
HEMICOLECTOMY, P/O BLEEDING – PHONE CONSULTANT
HEMICOLECTOMY – PRE-OPERATIVE COUNSELLING
HERNIORRHAPHY – POST-OPERATIVE COUNSELLING (INFECTION & BLEEDING AT THE OPERATION SITE )
HERNIORRHAPHY – PRE-OPERATIVE COUNSELLING
HIP EXAMINATION (PAIN) (OSTEOARTHRITIS, MENISCAL RUPTURE)
HOARSENESS – HISTORY AND DD
HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA, ANNUAL CHECK-UP – EXAMINE LYMPHORETICULAR SYSTEM
HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM – TAKE HISTORY AND DISCUSS SIMPLE MANAGEMENT

I

IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY IN CHILD – COUNSEL MOTHER
INGROWING TOE NAIL IN ALCOHOLIC PT WITH RAISED MCV – HISTORY AND COUNSELLING
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION IN 72 Y.O. – PHONE CONSULTANT
INTUSSEPTION IN A CHILD – TAKE HISTORY FROM MOTHER
IRRITABLE HIP SYNDROME IN A CHILD – COUNSEL MOTHER
I.V. CANNULATION

K

KNEE EXAMINATION (PAIN)

L

LEFT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN (POST IUCD) (ECTOPIC PREGNANCY)
LEFT VENTRICULAR FAILURE – COUNSELLING
LYMPHORETICULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION
LOC HISTORY???
LOWER SPINE EXAMINATION (PAIN)

M

MELAENA SINCE 4 DAYS – HISTORY
MENINGITIS – COUNSELLING
MENINGITIS – EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
MENINGITIS IN CHILD – PHONE CONVERSATION WITH A PARENT
MENINGOCOCCAL SEPTICAEMIA – COUNSEL MOTHER
MENORRHAGIA – HISTORY AND COUNSELLING
MESOTELIOMA – BREAKING BAD NEWS
MIGRAINE
MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION – PRE-DISCHARGE COUNSELLING
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION – DISCUSS ECG, X-RAY & MANAGEMENT WITH THE EXAMINER
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION WITH LVF – MANAGEMENT
MMR VACCINE COUNSELLING
MULTI-DRUG ABUSE – HISTORY AND RISK ASSESSMENT
MULTIPLE TRAUMA IN CHILD AFTER RTA (FEMUR FR., spleen RUPT.) – COUNSEL MOTHER

N

NEONATAL JAUNDICE
NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF A COMATOSE PATIENT
NON-ACCIDENTAL INJURY IN 7 M.O. CHILD (FEMUR FRACTURE) – HISTORY FROM MOTHER
NON-ACCIDENTAL INJURY IN 85 Y.O. WOMAN – HISTORY

O

OBESITY – COUNSELLING (PT REFUSED surgery BY ANAESTHETIST)
OSTEOPOROSIS – MANAGEMENT
OTOSCOPY
OVARIAN CYSTECTOMY BY PFANNENSTEIL INCISION – PRE-OPERATIVE COUNSELLING

P

PALPITATIONS – HISTORY
PARACETAMOL POISONING – ASSESS MENTAL STATUS AND FUTURE SUICIDAL RISK
PARACETAMOL POISONING – DISCUSS MANAGEMENT WITH THE PATIENT
PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL EXAMINATION
PER RECTUM BLEEDING – HISTORY
PER RECTUM EXAMINATION
PER VAGINA BLEEDING IN 47 Y.O. – HISTORY
PER VAGINA BIMANUAL EXAMINATION
PID WITH FREE FLUID ON US – COUNSEL ABOUT LIFESTYLE CHANGES AND PRECAUTIONS
POLYDYPSIA, POLYURIA AND LETHARGY IN A CHILD
POST MASTECTOMY PATIENT – ASSESS PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS AND COUNSEL
POSTNATAL DEPRESSION – HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT
PREMATURE MENOPAUSE – HISTORY
PRE-OPERATIVE ASSESSMENT
PRIMARY SURVEY
PROSTATIC CANCER – COUNSELLING (PAIN WELL CONTROLLED, WANTS TO GO HOME)

R

RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS AND PEFR
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS – COUNSELLING
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS – MANAGEMENT
RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN – HISTORY, DD

S

SCHIZOPHRENIA – HISTORY
SCROTAL LUMP – COUNSEL PT
SECONDARY AMENORRHOEA - COUNSELLING
SECONDARY SURVEY (FEMUR FRACTURE)
SENSORY EXAMINATION OF THE LOWER LIMBS
SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION WITH REFLEXES IN ALCOHOLIC PT
SPACER DEVICE – COUNSELLING
STD CHECK-UP – COUNSELLING
STD COUNSELLING
STERILISATION IN FEMALE PT - COUNSELLING
SUTURING

T

TERMINAL ILLNESS – COUNSEL DAUGHTER RE PAIN RELIEF AND PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM INVOLVEMENT
THYROID EXAMINATION (+RELEVANT SYSTEMIC FEATURES)
TIA – HISTORY AND COUNSELLING
TRAVEL FEVER (MALARIA)

U

UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN – HISTORY
UPPER ABDOMEN EXAMINATION (MURPHY+)
URINARY INCONTINENCE – HISTORY & COUNSELLING

V

VENEPUNCTURE
VENESECTION IN ANAEMIC PATIENT (?)
VOMITING – HISTORY
VOMITING IN CHILD – TAKE HISTORY FROM MOTHER

W

WEIGHT GAIN – HISTORY
WEIGHT LOSS – HISTORY (THYROTOXOCOSIS)
WEIGHT LOSS IN CHILD – HISTORY
WHIPLASH INJURY WITH DEPRESSION – COUNSELLING
WHIPLASH INJURY WITH NECK STIFFNESS – COUNSELLING
WHEEZE – HISTORY
WRIST PAIN – HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT (SCAPHOID FRACTURE)

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