Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Bates' is the gold-standard for clinical practice of patient physical assessment NEW! Nearly 30 new videos to get students more comfortable and confident interacting with patients during an exam

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. 

Based on the Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking guidebook, this online resource maintains the book’s evidence-based origins and focuses on clinical accuracy and the range of patient types profiled in the series. 

Videos are easily accessible for any student or instructor via a single point of access on a robust, reliable online platform, which helps to standardize instruction across your institution. 

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 down-loading 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.