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Talley and O'Connor's Examination Medicine

A Guide to Physician Training

  • 10th Edition - November 1, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Nicholas J. Talley, Simon O’Connor
  • Language: English

Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skillsTalley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles,… Read more

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Comprehensive guide to core principles and clinical skills
Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination is a complete resource for students and educators covering the core principles, skills and competencies needed for effective patient examination and diagnosis.

For each body system, the book details how to take a systematic and comprehensive health history, how to examine a patient, how to correlate physical signs with disease, and how to use rigorous clinical thinking skills to form a diagnosis.

This tenth edition of the book has been fully updated and forms part of a complete package that includes an eBook, skills videos, ECG and imaging cases, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), and is complemented by two companion texts, Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical OSCEs and Clinical Examination Essentials.

Key features

  • Essential preparative text for internal medicine clinical examinations for those planning to go on to advanced training in a specialty
  • More than 50 common and important long cases and 30 common short cases
  • Teaches how to think like a physician and like an examiner
  • What to expect on the examination day and how to succeed
  • Hints and tips for remembering the essentials and avoiding pitfalls
  • Common lines of questioning supporting development of critical thinking skills
  • Presents a methodical and calm process for trainees to manage patients with complications and co-morbidities
  • Reliable and proven format: history, examination and interpretation
  • Long cases ordered logically by body system
  • Videos demonstrating long and short case technique
New to this edition
  • New long cases likely to occur in the exam
  • New long-case segments including approaching obesity and the role of new drugs and their important side effects

Table of contents

  1. Basic physician training

  2. The written examination

  3. The clinical examination

  4. The long case

  5. The cardiovascular long case

  6. The respiratory long case

  7. The gastrointestinal long case

  8. The haematological long case

  9. The rheumatological long case

  10. The endocrine long case

  11. The renal long case

  12. The neurological long case

  13. Other important long cases

  14. Think like a physician, think like an examiner – an approach with long-case examples

  15. The short case

  16. Common short cases

Product details

  • Edition: 10
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 6, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Nicholas J. Talley

Nicholas J Talley AC

MD (NSW), PhD (Syd), MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.), FRACP, FAFPHM, FAHMS, FRCP (Lond. & Edin.), FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAMS, FRCPI (Hon)

Distinguished Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle and

Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia;

Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

North Carolina, United States

Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Laureate Professor, University of Newcastle and Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia; Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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Simon O’Connor

Simon O’Connor

FRACP, DDU, FCSANZ

Cardiologist, Canberra, Australian Capital

Territory, Australia

Affiliations and expertise
Cardiologist, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia