Friday, December 24, 2010

Important Announcement for Fam Med Posting

Please download this TBL trigger for Monday afternoon. There are 2 cases for chest pain in the trigger. Print it out if possible.

Read-up on chest pain before Monday, learning issues such as:
1. Differential diagnosis of chest pain
2. How to differentiate between various types of chest pain, characteristics of various chest pain.
( especially, ischemic chest pain, pulmonary cause and gastrointestinal cause)
3. What investigations to do ?
These suggestions are not exhaustive, can read more on chest pain in Murtagh's General Practice, chapter on chest pain.

Use this study guide on chest pain as reference.

Please come prepared for TBL on Monday.

Thanks.