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Clinician Examination Research and Education Interest Group

Ongoing research about the physical examination

• Studies of the physical examination performed by the Clinical Examination Research Interest Group
• The Clinical Assessment of the Reliability of the Examination (CARE)
  

Clinical information about the physical examination

• Rational Clinical Examination series
• Search for information about the value of clinical findings
• Online tutorials and auscultation samples

Studies of the physical examination performed by the group

• CLINICAL EXAMINATION FOR THE DETECTION OF DIABETIC PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY.
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine 1999;14:418-424.
  • Abstract from 1997 SGIM National Meeting
• Improving the Clinical Examination for a Low Ankle-Brachial Index
  • Angiology 2002;11:41-45

Search for information about the clinical examination.

Please note that the PubMed filter is designed for research purposes. Thus the PubMed filter is very sensitive in finding articles about the clinical examination, the precision is lower (ie, many articles retrieved will not be about the clinical examination).

1. Enter your search term here:
2. Choose where to search: PubMed or Bedside Diagnosis
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Notes:

1. Bedside Diagnosis is an Annotated Bibliography of Literature on Physical Examination and Interviewing. Bedside Diagnosis is written by Henry Schneiderman, MD and Aldo J. Peixoto, MD and the electronic versions is at the ACP-ASIM website
2. PubMed is a product of the National Library of Medicine. Articles about the clinical examination are filtered by using the search strategy of David Simel.
3. You may search both of these sites at once and other medical web sites at the same time for physical diagnosis information with SUMSearch.
This search form for PubMed works best with Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4. 

Online tutorials and auscultation samples

• A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine, by The School of Medicine of the University of California, San Diego.
  A tutorial on the clinical examination. Many photographs of abnormal findings..
• Auscultation Assistant, UCLA
  Many audio samples from cardiac and pulmonary ausculation.
• Heart Auscultation Instruction, Loma Linda University
  Only has S4 and aortic ejection click, but very good demonstrations of these

Director of the Interest Group: David Simel M.D., M.H.S.

Last update 9/6/2006.
Comments or problems? Email Badgett@UTHSCSA.edu