Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Online, interactive clinical assessment skills training for students in any healthcare program at your institution — MD, DO, PA, NP, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, exercise science, and pharmacy

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination® delivers videos featuring step-by-step, head-to-toe, and systems-based physical examination techniques, as well as interactive OSCE clinical reasoning modules and new communication and interpersonal skills videos.  

What makes Bates' examination techniques special for your institution?

• For over 50 years, Bates’ Visual Guide has served as the “gold standard” step-by-step guide to learning how to do physical examinations.
• Vividly recreates live patient encounters through demonstrations of step-by-step physical examination techniques
• Enables users to move seamlessly between videos and feedback with peers and instructors

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Why Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination?

• Supports teaching and learning objectives with hours of narrated and closed-captioned videos
• Prepares students for the patient encounter and board exams
• Allows students independent, frequent viewing and testing of their clinical reasoning skills
• Provides a resource for practitioners to review and refresh their understanding of examination techniques
• Creates direct paths to videos from library catalog or course syllabus; enables downloading of PDF transcripts for use in teaching guides

In addition to practicing clinicians, this resource is ideal for any institution’s assessment or clinical medicine courses within medical, nursing, physician assistant, physical or occupational therapy, and pharmacy programs.

Use Bates' to prepare your students for USMLE exams and boards

• Prepares students for board and OSCE exams that focus on patient physical assessment
• Allows students remote, independent, and frequent viewing and testing of their clinical reasoning skills to reinforce learning and remediate when necessary
• Promotes active learning and improves student engagement, leading to better retention of material and increased usage