The study tour was inspired by recent developments in health professional practice, which increasingly require nurses and other health care professionals to undertake the skills of history taking, inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.
In addition, community project officers (CPOs) were selected from collaborating health institutes and were responsible for field activities, the provision of technical and other advice, and undertook skills audits of CMC capacity to ensure they were equipped to manage the network.
This study explored the experiences of those few rheumatology clinicians who had undertaken brief skills training.
It is a new model of care delivered by GPs who have undertaken advanced skills training (the ICDMS GP Clinical Fellows) with on-site specialist support from the endocrinologist and a multidisciplinary team.
Students who have mastered basic painting skills undertake sustained projects, including portrait and plein air landscape work.
This is particularly the case with registrars wishing to undertake Academic Extended Skills posts (an optional component of vocational GP training in Australia).
But depending on the goals of the behavioral projects being undertaken, this skill set might not always be needed.
Our overarching vision is that, ultimately, our homeless and formerly homeless guides will run and strategically shape the enterprise themselves, and we are currently undertaking intensive skill-building work to that effect.
to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-based module and in-service educational programme in perineal repair for midwives on their perceived level of competency undertaking this skill in clinical practice.
The variety of work that rural doctors undertake and the skill development that results is likely to interest females, allied health students and those from a city background, for example, as career factors are highly important to these students.
