THE CLINICAL SKILLS SESSIONS
Background
The Clinical Skills Sessions form an important part of the practical element of your Medlink conference.
The aims of these sessions are two fold.
Firstly, to introduce you to some of the communication and team work skills that are an essential part of
your training as a doctor, to enable you to work successfully with both patients and professional colleagues.
Secondly, these sessions will allow you to experience and try some of the basic skills that you will learn and develop throughout your medical training and beyond.
There are four major elements to the Clinical Skills Sessions:
- Introduction to the Clinical Skills Session
- Working with Patients
- The Stethoscope Practical
- The Ear/Eye clinic
Introduction to the Clinical Skills Session
This presentation will outline some of the key skills you will need to demonstrate to be able to successfully take a patient history, and working in your teams, to be able to make clinical decisions and determine a diagnosis. You will also be given information about the purpose and function of the diagnostic instruments you will be using in the practical sessions.
Working with Patients
In this supervised practical session you will meet with real patients, and in a limited time, your goal is to make a correct diagnosis
of their illness.
The Stethoscope Practical
In this supervised practical you will use a stethoscope to listen to, and to try and identify, normal heart sounds.
The Ear/Eye Clinic
In this supervised practical session you will use both an ophthalmoscope and an otoscope to examine the normal eye and ear, and also to use eye and ear models to examine some common diseases of the eye and ear.
These sessions offer a great opportunity to gain some first hand experience of what it might be like to work as a doctor in training, and to gain an awareness of some of the diagnostic skills that will form an essential part of medical training.
Further details on the three practical sessions can be found by clicking on the blue information links to the right
