Welcome to Resource Spotlight! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library provides access to an incredible array of databases, e-book collections, software and more. In this series of posts, we’ll be showcasing highlights from our collection.
In this edition of Resource Spotlight, we’ll be looking at Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination. An online complement to the classic textbook, Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination offers users head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination instructional videos.
The fifth edition of the Guide offers more than eight hours of high-quality video divided into 18 ‘chapters’. Each chapter is themed (e.g. “Head-to-Toe Assessment: Infant” “Cardiovascular System”, “Nervous System: Cranial Nerves & Motor System”) and the videos within each chapter range from bite-size, animated anatomy review to extended examination demonstrations.
In addition to the general knowledge presented in the Guide, it also features a section of OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) Clinical Skills Videos. These videos allow you to test your clinical reasoning skills by observing a clinical encounter and then being given an opportunity to develop an assessment or differential diagnosis, and provide a diagnostic workup.
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination is available to Yale affiliates through the VPN, YNHH affiliates through the proxy server and everybody on the YaleSecure WiFi network.
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