MED 441 Course:

• It teaches medicine for final year medical students.  They will be attached to the consultant and his team for two months
• Teaching rounds on patients
• Students are required to attend clinics with the consultant (Saturday morning and Tue afternoon)
• Students are required to follow patients' assigned to them
• Students are required to attend departmental and unit academic and teaching activities
• Lectures given by me: Pulmonary embolism for four groups of students

·        How to pass your clinical exam:  The following sites help you to prepare for your clinical exams:

o   Clinical Skills Online (CSO): CSO is a project aimed at providing online videos demonstrating core clinical skills common to a wide range of medical and health-based courses.  These videos are covered by the Creative Commons and are freely available to anyone using them for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes only.

o   Physical Exam Study Guides:

·            References مراجع:

o   Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.)) by Anthony S. Fauci, Eugene Braunwald, Dennis L. Kasper, and Stephen L. Hauser (2008)

o   Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access by Nicholas A. Boon, Nicki R. Colledge, Brian R. Walker, and John A. A. Hunter (2006)

o   Kumar and Clark Clinical Medicine by Parveen Kumar and Michael Clark (2005)

o   Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis (Paperback)  by Nicholas J. Talley (Author), Simon O'Connor (Author)

·            Important links روابط مهمة:

o   Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, 5th Edition

o    A web site that has links to several clinical skills web sites: