Psychomotor skills for the undergraduate medical curriculum in a developing country--Pakistan.
OBJECTIVE
To identify essential psychomotor skills for all the medical graduates of an undergraduate programme in Pakistan.


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.


CONCLUSIONS
This study provides baseline data about psychomotor skills that a medical graduate in developing countries should be able to perform. Further studies will be undertaken by involving other stakeholders to identify and incorporate these skills in the undergraduate medical curriculum, thereby enabling graduates to practice in all the settings in Pakistan.
Ahmed
Rashida
R
Educational Development and Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. rashida.ahmed@aku.edu
Naqvi
Zoon
Z
Wolfhagen
Ineke
I
D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010154:Pakistan; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011597:Psychomotor Performance