BASIC CLINICAL SKILLS

Course description:

The Basic Clinical skills will be learnt in clinical skills laboratory. Skills lab will be an important learning resource for students during the period of learning to take histories and examining the patient. Students will learn basic skills of certain clinical examination and performing common medical procedures.

The great majority of clinical skills are learnt by seeing the seniors do it multiple times and by slowly doing it oneself. Working in a skill lab will supplement this and is not a substitute for practicing these in the different wards, in accident and emergency and in the surgery in real patients.

Students will be posted in skills lab during second year; junior internship and in the beginning of internship. Detailed timetable will be provided through the co-ordinators.

General objectives:

Students will be able to acquire certain clinical skills and procedure skills I:, skills lab.

Specific objectives:

1. Clinical skills: Students will be able to

• perform rectal examination
• perform ear drum examination
• perform breast examination
• appreciate various heart sounds and murmurs.
• appreciate different breath sounds and abnormal sounds.
• palpate the uterus.

2. Procedural skills: Students will be able to

• perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on neonate, child and adult
• perform intubation on a paediatric patient.
• perform intubation on an adult patient.
• obtain venous access.
• perform umbilical cathetarization in neonate.
• perform radial artery puncture.
• perform pleural aspiration.
• insert a chest tube.
• put a central venous line.
• identify dislocated hip in a neonate.
• interpret different electrocardiogram.
• perform a wound closure.
• scrub properly, put on gown and gloves properly.