Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Rheumatology: Clinical Examination in Rheumatology

Clinical Examination in Rheumatology

Michael and John Doherty. 144 pages. London: Wolfe Publishing; 1992.

The predominantly hospital-based nature of medical school and resident training programs has long denied students of medicine exposure to the real problems faced by practitioners. These students have not been sensitized to the need to become facile with the recognition of rheumatologic-musculoskeletal disease. Education in the techniques of rheumatologic examination has generally been inadequate, which perhaps reflects the limited coverage of …