Technical expertise

Other Core Competencies:

Collaboration and teamwork
Communication
Cultural competence and cultural safety
Health advocacy
Judgement and clinical decision making
Leadership and management
Medical expertise
Professionalism
Scholarship and teaching

To be technically competent in the clinical workplace you should be able to safely and effectively assist with, or perform, appropriate surgical procedures while:

  • recognising conditions for which surgery may be necessary
  • maintaining dexterity and technical skills
  • recognising one's level of skill development.
     

Select the PGY (1–3) tabs below to view the progression of the expected skills, knowledge and behaviours across the early postgraduate years

Key clinical tasks and the workplace

The related key clinical tasks (KCT) have been designed to help you apply the Framework to your job.  You can use these to obtain feedback on, and/or assessment of, your level of performance.

Select the check box next to a KCT for guidance on developing your technical expertise skills and knowledge for this task

Select the KCT title to see the complete task, related competencies and downloadable assessment form

1

Identify infection control practices
2

Undertake training through a combination of simulation and direct supervision
3

Perform some generic elementary technical skills
4

Identify common symptoms, signs, clinical problems and conditions
1

Attend training sessions undertaken by other members of the multi-disciplinary team
2

Perform generic elementary technical skills
3

Engage with Basic and Intermediate surgical constructs
4

Assist with teaching junior staff
1

Able to demonstrate that basic essential surgical skills constructs are well established
2

Able to teach basic Essential Surgical Skills constructs to juniors and supervise their clinical application established
3

Able to assess advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs (competent with basic and intermediate) both for use in current position as well as for surgical education and training (SET) application – career pathway
4

Competent with intermediate and many of the advanced Essential Surgical Skills constructs