1. Clinical Skills For Our International Students 1st Faculty of Medicine Gajan Chellappah

2. Are we getting the best use out of our clinical years? “On the pedagogic side, modern medicine, like all scientific teaching, is characterized by activity. The student no longer merely watches, listens, memorizes: he does. His own activitiesin the laboratory and in the clinic are the main factors in his instruction and discipline. An education in medicine nowadays involves both learning and learning how; the student cannot effectively know, unless he knows how.” Abraham Flexner, 1910

3. After Graduation Our Practical-Clinical skills are now a more essential part of job applications in modern medicine around the world how many of you feel happy with your level of practical skills? Procedures that an F1 trainee should be competent and confident to perform: venepuncture and IV cannulation arterial puncture in an adult blood cultures from peripheral and central sites urethral catheterisation nasogastric tube insertion. Why not get started now?

4. Where are we `learning´clinical skills now? First Aid 1st year Patient Care 2nd year Patient Care Clerkship Internal/Surgical Propaedeutics 3rd year How beneficial were /are these to you? How would you evaluate them? What are your ideas? TELL US!! ¨I can´t hear that murmur ¨ ¨ How do you examine the abdomen? ¨ ¨ Im too scared to suture or admin an injection ¨ ¨Arterial blood gas measurement looks too hard ¨

5. How do we need to Learn? adapted from `Curriculum for the foundation years in postgraduate education and training` reflecting and building upon their own experiences identifying what they have learnt and what they need to learn being involved in planning their education and training reflecting on the effectiveness of their learning and the nature of learning experiences observing role models

6. Skills as a Medical Student-Ideas Many medical schools have different ways of teaching and assessing their students’ skills. ¨Log books¨ Clinical Skills Centres covering skills such as putting in IV lines, suturing etc After-School workshops Problem Based Learning sometimes involving actors Should we think about introducing these ? ? ? What systems would you like to see here ? ? ?

7. Our school is world-reknown and our graduates have gone on to have distinguished careers in medicine However, we must never stop thinking about improving our course for the rigours of tomorrow The 1 st Faculty of Medicine value your opinions/ideas/criticisms! What is the point in keeping them to yourself? We all will be graduates of this university so its our responsiblity for ourselves and those who come after us Please share them with the Student Council, Faculty Senate or Dean

8. Contact Information 1 st Faculty of Medicine Senate President Marek Hilšer marek.hilser@email.cz Vice-Dean For The English Parallel Prof. Otomar Kittnar M.D, CSc otomar.kittnar@lf1.cuni.cz Dean of the 1st Faculty of Medicine Prof.Tomáš Zima M.D,DrSc,MBA zimatom@cesnet.cz