Clinical approaches to common problems

The resident must be comfortable with evaluating and treating the following:

1. Changes in body temperature (hyperthermia, fever, hypothermia; fever of unknown origin, heat stress and malignant hyperthermia). 
2. Changes in body weight.
3. Poor performance.
4. Dysphagia.
5. Colic, diarrhoea.
6. Respiratory distress.
7. Cough.
8. Polyuria/polydipsia.
9. Oedema. 
10. Ataxia.