Other important skills for
medical students are :
a) Clinical skills
1. Clerking
Clerking of cases requires a good
approach – refer to clerking scheme.
2. Presentation
This is an art that will be
learned over the year. This is when ability to avoid presenting and this is not
a clever move as they get no practice and in the end in the final year
examinations they will face problems to express themselves leading to poor
marks.
3. Documentation
Appears not important but crucial
in many medical records which later becomes medicolegal documents.
4. Clinical skills and procedures
This is again obtained by
practice and getting adequate supervision during the procedures. Hence a good
relationship with the senior medical students and junior doctors will increase
the chance getting opportunities to try new procedures.
5. Bedside manners
This is an often forgotten aspect
by students but much assessed during clinical examinations. Having the attitude
that one will only practice good bedside manners during the examination only is
futile as it is very obvious if one is doing it as ‘showmanship’ in the exam.
6. Beside tests
These are simple tests such as
urine test that will be required to be done during examination. It is important
that it is practiced well.
7. Clinical reasoning – Problem Based Learning
This is an approach to stimulate
critical thinking among medical students and is increasingly used by many
medical schools.
b) Life skills
- ICT skills
- Social skills
- Stress management skills
- Personal management
- Time management
- Public Education Skills
- Ability to express medical facts in layman’s term
- Ability to do public health education
- Communication skill
c) Academic skills
- Listening skills
-Effective note-taking skill
- Summarising skill, compare and contrast
- Schema drawing (eg. i. Two minute approach to unilateral visual loss
and ii. Approach to optic disc swelling).
- Examination skills
- Critical appraisal skills.
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