Generic Skills Requirements

Medical education is a continuum that extends from undergraduate education through a doctor's career. It is important to reinforce and expand the knowledge and skills acquired during undergraduate and pre-registration training.

For basic trainees of the RACP the following generic skills are required:

• Communication skills, which should include the ability to communicate verbally and by written word with patients and relatives, and with other health professionals.
  
• Management of common acute emergencies.
  
• Competence in resuscitation techniques, including the immediate management of cardiac arrest.
  
• Principles in pharmacology of drug delivery.
  
• Acute and chronic pain relief.
  
• Preoperative and postoperative assessment.
  
• The ability to work as a member of a team.
  
• Knowledge of basic medical ethics.
  
• Principles of audit and of self-assessment.
  
• Basic understanding of health service management and health economics.
  
• Knowledge of the value of computing both as a communication tool and as a tool for the collection of data and for literature searches, etc.

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