Core Skills Clinical Medicine for the Remote Practitioner exam

Two patients have presented to your clinic. One complains for a headache with focus across bridge of nose. The second complains of a “thunderclap headache” with 10/10 pain.

Explain the clinical significance of these different presentations

Write a brief note on cellulitis.

List 3 routes of infectious disease and list a common infection spread by each route.

Your working post has had an outbreak of gastroenteritis. You have been asked to brief the post manager on methods of reducing/limiting spread of infection.

Discuss.

You are briefing a group of miners on simple first aid treatment for Superficial and Partial thickness burns. One of the miners asks you to explain the difference.

Discuss

You are employed in an austere environment as a team medic. A patient who had a 5 inch laceration sutured 4 days previously has returned to you for review.

Outline the signs and symptoms of a developing infection in the wound

A patient presents for assessment. He is a 20 per day smoker and is overweight for height. His BP reads as 150/90

Explain to the patient the significance of this given lifestyle choices

A patient in your care has recently been diagnosed with COPD. She does not understand this condition.

Explain the condition to your patient

List the constituent parts of a SAMPLER question

List the constituent parts of an OPQRST assessment