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Relevant Auckland MBChB Learning Outcomes

Clinical Practice: medical graduate as practitioner
2.6: Select and perform safely a range of common procedural skills.
MBChB Graduate Learning Outcomes
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Competently perform a range of procedures for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes;
MBChB 221: Digestive System
 Clinical and Communication Skills
5 •  Correctly use equipment and perform selected procedures.
MBChB 221: Respiratory System
 Clinical and Communication Skills
6 •  Correctly use equipment and perform selected procedures.
MBChB 221: Cardiovascular System
 Clinical and Communication Skills
7 •  Correctly use equipment and perform selected procedures.
9Perform clinical and procedural skills in laboratory settings.
MBChB 221: Genitourinary System
 Clinical and Communication Skills
6Perform selected clinical and procedural skills.
MBChB 321: Professional and Clinical Skills 2
 Clinical and Communication Skills
9Emergency procedures
 •  Demonstrate basic emergency skills in a simulated setting
 •  Demonstrate safe practice in relation to venesection and cannulation in a simulated setting
MBChB 401: Anaesthesiology
 Clinical and Communication Skills
5Perform basic practical and clinical procedures relevant to the care of unconscious/seriously ill patients and to patients presenting for surgery under anaesthesia.
 •  insert a peripheral venous cannula;
 •  maintain the airway in the unconscious patient;
 •  manually ventilate an unconscious patient using a bag and mask;
 •  insert and use an oropharyngeal airway;
 •  insert and use a laryngeal mask;
 •  follow basic theatre protocol;
 •  prepare IV fluids for administration;
 •  draw up drugs for IV administration as boluses and infusions.
MBChB 401: Musculoskeletal
 Clinical and Communication Skills
7Apply specific techniques and principles appropriately.
 •  Apply simple casts;
 •  Explain how intra-articular and soft tissue steroid injections are administered.
MBChB 401: General Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
2 •  Outline the basic approaches to the examination of the endocrine and locomotor systems and fundoscopy.
MBChB 501: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
 Clinical and Communication Skills
3Assist with the care of women in labour and vaginal birth;
6Perform supervised speculum and pelvic examinations.
MBChB 501: Specialty Surgery
 Clinical and Communication Skills
5Demonstrate competence in specifically defined surgical procedures.
 •  Demonstrate the correct procedural techniques.
MBChB 551: General Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Diagnostic tests/investigations are selected and evaluated to confirm or alter a working diagnosis.
 •  Common investigations are interpreted (ECGs, plain radiology, pulmonary function tests and general laboratory tests)
 Personal and Professional Skills
 •  Limits in knowledge and skills are identified and action taken to correct these.
MBChB 551: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Specifically concentrate on taking histories and performing sensitive examinations, using correct techniques and appropriate communication.
 Applied Science for Medicine
 •  Normal mechanism for delivery and the principles of assisted instrumental and caesarean delivery.
MBChB 551: Emergency Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Procedural skills are enhanced, especially for venepuncture, IV lines and urinary catheters.