Clinical Skills For Our International Students

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Clinical Skills For Our International Students

• 1st Faculty of Medicine
• Gajan Chellappah

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Are we getting the best use out of our clinical
years?
On the pedagogic side, modern medicine, like all
scientific teaching, is characterized
by activity. The student no longer merely
watches, listens, memorizes he does. His own
activitiesin the laboratory and in the clinic are
the main factors in his instruction and
discipline. An education in medicine nowadays
involves both learning and learning how the
student cannot effectively know, unless he knows
how. Abraham Flexner, 1910
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After Graduation

• Our Practical-Clinical skills are now a more
  essential part of job applications in modern
  medicine around the world
• how many of you feel happy with your level of
  practical skills?

Procedures that an F1 trainee should be
competent and confident to perform
venepuncture and IV cannulation arterial
puncture in an adult blood cultures from
peripheral and central sites urethral
catheterisation nasogastric tube
insertion. Why not get started now?
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Where are we learningclinical skills now?
I cant hear that murmur How do you examine
the abdomen? Im too scared to suture or admin
an injection Arterial blood gas measurement
looks too hard

• First Aid 1st year
• Patient Care 2nd year
• Patient Care Clerkship
• Internal/Surgical Propaedeutics 3rd year

How beneficial were /are these to you? How would
you evaluate them? What are your ideas? TELL
US!!
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How do we need to Learn?

• adapted from Curriculum for the foundation
  years in postgraduate education and training
• reflecting and building upon their own
  experiences
• identifying what they have learnt and what they
  need to learn
• being involved in planning their education and
  training
• reflecting on the effectiveness of their
  learning and the nature of learning experiences
• observing role models

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Skills as a Medical Student-Ideas

• Many medical schools have different ways of
  teaching and assessing their students skills.
• Log books
• Clinical Skills Centres covering skills such as
  putting in IV lines, suturing etc
• After-School workshops
• Problem Based Learning sometimes involving actors
  
• Should we think about introducing these ? ? ?
• What systems would you like to see here ? ? ?

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Our school is world-reknown and our graduates
have gone on to have distinguished careers in
medicine

• However, we must never stop thinking about
  improving our course for the rigours of tomorrow
• The 1st Faculty of Medicine value your
  opinions/ideas/criticisms!
• What is the point in keeping them to yourself? We
  all will be graduates of this university so its
  our responsiblity for ourselves and those who
  come after us
• Please share them with the Student Council,
  Faculty Senate or Dean

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Contact Information

• 1st Faculty of Medicine Senate
• President Marek Hilšer
• marek.hilser_at_email.cz
• Vice-Dean For The English Parallel
• Prof. Otomar Kittnar M.D, CSc
• otomar.kittnar_at_lf1.cuni.cz
• Dean of the 1st Faculty of Medicine
• Prof.Tomáš Zima M.D,DrSc,MBA
• zimatom_at_cesnet.cz