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Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

37 Rule of Six

Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Dominic Barfield

814108, Higher Education, Education, Medicine, Rvc, Science & Medicine, Veterinary, Science, Higher, Royal

5643 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we talk to Tom Cardy, staff clinician in neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVC about the ‘Rule of Six’, or the ‘Six Finger Rule’ (which has no bearing on Count Rugen or indeed Inigo Montoya). It is a clever process used to teach clinical reasoning in canine spinal disease, in six steps.

  1. Signalment
  2. Onset
  3. Deterioration
  4. Pain
  5. Asymmetry
  6. Neuroanatomical localisation

Here is the link to the paper published in the Veterinary Record in 2015 http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/early/2015/07/21/vr.102988

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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0:22.4

So if you have any topics you would like us to discuss or comment suggestions for the show,

0:26.3

please tweet me at Dom Barfield or email me at debarfuel.RVC.ac.org.

0:32.5

Today we're lucky, very lucky indeed, to speak to Dr. Tom Cardi.

0:41.3

He's one of our staff conditions in neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVC. He's been a previous student, intern and resident here at the RVC.

0:45.3

And actually, Tom has a wide variety of interests and

0:50.3

obviously previous life experiences as well that include dolphin training which I find

0:55.2

makes one of the most interesting people to actually have any conversation with at the RBC.

1:01.9

Tom's interest in all forms of neurology but but also about helping us understand how to

1:08.3

teach neurology to our undergraduates.

1:11.6

And this sort of brings us to what we're going to talk to Tom today about is they,

1:18.6

what our students get taught as the six-finger rule, but you actually managed to,

1:24.6

or you actually publish this about their clinical reasoning in canine spinal

1:28.2

disease and what combination of clinical information is useful that was published I believe like last year in the veterinary record.

1:35.5

And it's an amazing like achievement not only to help our students understand clinical reasoning in neurology,

1:43.9

which I think is fundamentally quite

1:45.1

frightening to not only undergraduate students, but vets in general. I think it's kind of like

1:52.9

maybe maths, you know, maybe get people get it or they don't get it and they and if they're

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