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Skills

Clinical examination of ten regions – medical history, standard examination, and special tests.

Medical history

Use the medical history to formulate one or more testable clinical questions.

Tentative diagnoses

Use the medical history and findings from the standard examination to formulate tentative diagnoses, taking account of how likely each condition is in the relevant clinical setting (primary care or specialist healthcare services).

Special tests

Perform relevant clinical tests to increase or decrease the likelihood of one or more tentative diagnoses.

Clinical examination

Ti regions – divided into basic and advanced level

  1. Neck

  2. Shoulder

  3. Upper arm and elbow

  4. Hand

  5. Back

  6. Hip joint

  7. Knee joint

  8. Lower leg, ankle and foot

Skill level

  1. In the medical history, obtain relevant information about disorders of the musculoskeletal system that makes it possible to establish a working hypothesis, a testable problem regarding the cause.

  2. In clinical examination with standard examination and use of special tests, test the relevant working hypotheses about the cause, and to have the assumption strengthened or weakened through the functional examination.

  3. Suggest relevant supplementary examinations and measures.

  4. Set up relevant treatment options.