Orthopaedic Curriculum Objectives
The aim of this curriculum is to improve the competencies of all future doctors in the assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions and to produce competent graduates with the knowledge and skills to manage common or important musculoskeletal conditions irrespective of future specialty. To achieve this, the minimum level of competence in musculoskeletal conditions for all medical students, that is all future doctors, has been defined in this curriculum.
A competency-based approach has been utilized to design this curriculum. In a competency-based curriculum, 452 courses, must demonstrate that the students are competent in the assessment and management of common or important musculoskeletal conditions irrespective of future specialty. This approach defines desired graduate abilities (outcomes) and allows those outcomes to guide the development of curricula, assessment, and evaluation.
Objectives
By the end of the course, students will have demonstrated the ability to:
- Demonstrate essential knowledge required to diagnose, initially manage and to know when to immediately refer a patient with a condition that requires urgent specialist management.
- Demonstrate knowledge to specify the symptoms, signs and immediate complications; to outline the assessment and appropriate investigation and; to outline the immediate and long term management of patients with common and community related orthopedic conditions and musculoskeletal trauma.
- To take a relevant and a focused MSK history in the knowledge of the characteristics of the major conditions of: bone; joints; connective tissue; nerve tissue and; muscle tissue.
- To perform a focused physical examination of major joints (shoulder, hip, knee, foot and ankle, PN and spine)
- To order and to demonstrate an appropriate use and interpretation of appropriate investigations including: radiography, CT/MRI/bone scan, MSK U/S, serology, synovial fluid analysis, and EMG/NCS.
- The ability to perform a common non-surgical orthopaedic procedures like joint aspirations and ability to apply and remove a cast.