Clinical skills questions with verified answers

Clinical skills questions with verified
answers

Presenting complaint - ANS ✔✔- History of PC

- SQUITAS

- System review

- Red flags



Past medical history - ANS ✔✔- Operations /serious illness

- Drugs : Prescribed, OTC, herbal , recreational

- Allergies : drugs, food, penicillin



Social history - ANS ✔✔- Occupation + home

- Smoking / Alcohol

- Family history



ICE - ANS ✔✔- Ideas

- Concerns

- Expectation

- extra information for me?

- Any question?



SQITAS - ANS ✔✔Site

Quality - how would you describe your pain?

Intensity - 1 to 10

, Timing

Aggravating/relieving

aSsociated factors



Red Flags - ANS ✔✔Blood anywhere?

Lumps or bumps?

Change in bowel habit?

Change in weight or appetite?

Nausea or vomiting?



Cardiovascular history - ANS ✔✔- Chest pain

- Palpitation

- Shortness of breath - tolerance

- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea - wake up while sleeping because breathless

- Peripheral oedema

- Pain in legs on walking / cold limbs



Respiratory history - ANS ✔✔- Chest pain on breathing

- Shortness of breath

- Wheeze, stridor , snoring

- Cough = duration , haemoptysis

- Sputum = productive, blood, pink



Gastrointestinal history - ANS ✔✔- Difficulty / pain swallowing

- Nausea , vomiting, blood

- Indigestion / heart burn / abdominal pain