The Yellow Card - Clinical History and Examination Plus!

Clinical History and Examination Skills Plus!

For clinical medical students including MB ChB, MBBS, MRCP, USMLE candidates.

The Yellow Card© is an indispensible aide for the clinical medical student and a resource for the practising physician.
The Yellow Card is an educational resource to enable clinical medical students and physicians to perfect the art and science of medical history taking and clinical examination. It has been a trusted resource, tried and tested by and for clinical medical students.  It presents the scheme of the clinical history and examination in a concise way along with additional useful reference material.
 
Features include…

Clinical history
• Patient data
• Presenting complaint
• History of presenting complaint
• Past medical history
• Medications
• Family history
• Personal and social history
• History about an infant or child
• Review of systems
 
Physical examination
• General assessment
• Cardiovascular system
• Respiratory system
• Abdomen
• Neurological
• Locomotor
• Metabolic and endocrine
• Hematopoietic
 
Summary of findings
Problem list
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Management plan
Progress notes 

Reference material

• ECG report headings
• The sieve
• Myotomes
• Dermatome reference points
• Reflex root values
• Examination of a lump – the eight S’s
• Management of any medical problem
• Pain – characteristics
• Peripheral nerves
 
Maps and figures

• Cutaneous supply of the head and face
• Upper limb peripheral nerves
• Whole body dermatomes
 
 
History of “The Yellow Card”

The Yellow Card derived its name from the original bright yellow, pocket-sized card that was first produced in 1988 by Mark Sherwood while he was a clinical medical student at Otago University, New Zealand.
 
About the Author

Mark Sherwood, B Med Sc, MB ChB (Otago), FRACS (Orthopaedic Surgery) is an orthopaedic and spinal surgeon at Wellington Regional Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in all aspects of spinal surgery in adults and children, and in general orthopaedics.

If you would like an original hard copy of “The Yellow Card” – A5, two-fold, laminated – please email [email protected] for more information.