Familiarity with Important More Complex Skills
The student graduating should:
- Be able to describe the indications for, and complications of these procedures
- Be familiar with and be able to describe the basic techniques of these procedures
- Strive to observe or assist with (not necessarily perform) these procedures on one of the following:
- a patient simulator
- a mannequin (most likely)
- a patient
- in a Skills-Teaching Laboratory (e.g. Skills Laboratory – Emergency Medicine)
| Specific Skills | Teaching Responsibility | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Other | |
| Skin biopsy (punch or excision) | FP | M, P |
| Upper GI endoscopy | M | S, FP |
| Lower GI endoscopy (flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy) | M | S, FP |
| Exercise stress testing | M | FP |
| Endometrial biopsy | O/G | FP |
| Incision and drainage of a superficial abscess | S | FP, MP |
| Use of laparoscopy | S | SS, O/G |
| Open abdominal surgery (for example: appendectomy, laparotomy) | S | FP |
| Performance of injections: intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous | Skills | P, FP, M |
| Thoracentesis | Skills | M, S, P |
| Insertion of an arterial canula | Skills | M, S, P |
| Placement of Swan-Ganz catheter – understand wave forms | Skills | M, S |
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Specialities Abbreviations: FP – Family Practice / Primary Care Clerkship M – Medicine P – Pediatrics O/G – OB/GYN S – Surgery SS – Surgical Subspecialties Skills – Skills Laboratory (e.g. Skills Laboratory – Emergency Medicine) |
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