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Psychomotor Skills For The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum In A Developing Country--Pakistan, Rashida Ahmed, Zoon Naqvi, Ineke Wolfhagen

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Objective: To identify essential psychomotor skills for all the medical graduates of an undergraduate programme in Pakistan.
Materials and Methods: Twenty-five physicians practising in a tertiary care centre and ninety primary care physicians used a Likert's scale, ranging from "very essential" to"not required at all", to mark 99 psychomotor skills in the undergraduate medical curriculum in Pakistan.
Results: Overall the opinions of both the groups about the essential skills matched except for a few areas.
Conclusion: This study provides baseline data about psychomotor skills that a medical graduate in developing countries should be able to perform. Further studies will be …