Essential Clinical Methods in Paediatrics

Egbuna Olakunle Obidike

may 2023 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Clinical skills have been on the decline over the past many years. This book is an easy-to-read effort at the essential but in-depth approach (with explanations) to patient information generation (History and Physical Examination) and the correct documentation (and presentation) of such in a standardised format. It also guides on how to engage in the follow-up analytical and logically derived appropriate conclusions, the diagnosis.

To the trainee (medical undergraduate and paediatric postgraduate), it exposes them to the fundamentals of clinical practice skills helping them self-develop their skills thereby guaranteeing a resultant success in practice and Clinical examinations.

To the clinicians and trainers, this is their trusted companion to imbue them with the necessary confidence in their clinical practice and training needs.

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Dr Egbuna Olakunle Obidike graduated from Government College Umuahia, Nigeria in 1975, and the University of Nigeria Nsukka’s College of Medicine in 1981. He became a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1990. In 1992, he joined the Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, as a lecturer and became a professor of paediatrics in 2008. He has also been a consultant paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu (now Ituku-Ozalla) since 1992. Between 2003 and 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the University of The Gambia School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, and was a trainer and consultant at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, in 2021. He has been an external examiner at some medical schools in Nigeria, and is also an examiner of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.