Core Skills

Cross-cutting skills taught mainly in the skills lab. Each page states what the skill is, how it is assessed, and how to practise it.

• Prioritize patients by acuity / triage
• Initiate and execute consultant calls
• Recognize critically ill patients
• Identify cases that require attending involvement
• Manage multiple patients simultaneously
• Recognize the need to activate the STEMI protocol
• Recognize the need to activate the trauma protocol
• Recognize the need to activate the stroke protocol
• Confidence in examination