Clinical Learning Resources

We know that it can be daunting when you first begin the clinical section of your undergraduate training and so we have bought together a range of teaching resources on this page. These will enable you to improve your examination, history taking and procedural skills, so you can make the most of the excellent clinical opportunities that Newham has to offer.  

On this page you will find teaching materials covering the following topics:

• History Taking - History taking templates and guidance 
• Clinical Examinations - Tutorials detailing how to perform the main clinical examinations and links to videos of common clinical examinations
• Clinical Skills - Under Construction  
• Data Interpretation - Tutorials and quiz's on ECG and x-ray interpretation
• Image Atlases - Atlases of clinical signs that you may encounter when performing the principal clinical examinations.     
• Pharmacy - Drug prescrbing tutorials

Please click on the links above or scroll down the page to access these learning resources.

History Taking:

This history taking template will help you to structure your history taking and act as an aide memoire when you are first learning this fundamental skill 

• History Taking Template
• History Taking Presentation 

Clinical Examinations:

Click on the links below to access the examination skills tutorials, including a tutorial on presentation skills for final year OSCE's

• Cardiac Examination 
• Respiratory Examination
• Abdominal Examination
• Cranial Nerves Examination
• Peripheral Nervous System Examination
• Thyroid Examination
• Peripheral Vascular Examination
• Musculoskeletal Examinations
• Presentation Skills - How to present your findings 
• Heart and Lung Sounds - We recommend this website which has great examples of the clinical sounds you will hopefully hear on your patients
• Videos (with accompanying comments) on all Clinical Examinations 

Clinical Skills (under construction):

• Venepuncture and Cannulation
• Catheterisation
• NG Tube Insertion
• Oxygen and Respiratory Skills

Data Interpretation:

These tutorials and quiz's will help your ECG and X-ray interpretation skills to improve 

• Chest X-Ray Scenarios 
• ECG Basics tutorial 
• ECG Quiz

Image Atlases: 

These atlases will help you to interpret and recognise the signs that you observe when you examine patients as part of your clinical placements. 

• Abdominal Examination - a clinical atlas 
• Cardiovascular examination - a clinical atlas
• Respiratory Examination - a clinical atlas 
• Rheumatology and dermatology - a clinical atlas 

Pharmacy:

• Drug prescribing

Feedback:

This page is still under construction and any feedback would be grately appreciated.  Please email your comments to medicalundergraduateteachingteam@bartshealth.nhs.uk