Joint complaints are the second most common reason people go to a primary care physician. Because there are several possible causes of joint pain, physicians must be able to skillfully examine joints and also to interpret the findings. Anne Minenko, assistant professor and clinician educator scholar in the Division of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases, Medical School, has observed that many of her senior medical students don’t feel confident about their ability to perform a joint exam and notes that in a diagnostic workshop they “mechanically go about examining joints with little appreciation for the usefulness of every maneuver.” Read more.
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