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Procedural Skills

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As a doctor you may have to perform practical medical procedures which may vary from technically simple to technically complex tasks. No matter how technically simple a procedure may seem, it is still a significant event for a patient and should hence be approached as such.

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Charalambous, C.P. (2015). Procedural Skills. In: Career Skills for Doctors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13479-6_6

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