Presenting to Attendings

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Fred

This depends on how you want people to present and what you want them to
focus on:

My approach:
Medical Students
-Start with a "one-line" summary e.g. this is MrX who presents with what I
clinically suspect to be the following clinical problems 1,2,3...
-Next present the History & Exam focussing on pertinent positive and
negative points, but I don't believe they need to cover unrelated bits.
-Summarise and suggest which labs and imaging would confirm the suspected
diagnosis.
-If results are available I present them to the student to interpret. (I
don't believe students should access the files beforehand - their task is
to learn to interpret findings for themselves, however I know this
approach is not always followed in the USA)

For Residents and Midlevels they should be able to summarise the pertinent
points as above including the trends in the labs and present me a clinical
and special exam plan for the next 24 hours at the end of the
presentation.

Tim
Dr T C Hardcastle
M.B., Ch.B. (Stell); M. Med. (Chir) (Stell); FCS (SA)
Principal Specialist Trauma Surgeon /
Honorary Lecturer University of KwaZulu-Natal Dept Surgery
Deputy Director - IALCH Trauma Service
Durban - South Africa

> For those of you that work with residents, midlevels, and medical
> students:
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> I'm putting together a presentation on how to present to an attending. If
> anyone has any pearls or resources that they'd like to share, it would be
> appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> Fred
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