Personal Characteristics
Key skills and competencies
These include:
- Team working and team leadership skills.
- Communication skills.
- Clinical skills in the recognition, diagnosis and management of
critical illness.
- Practical procedural skills.
- Manual dexterity.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Awareness of cultural differences in the impact of serious
illness and death.
- Ability to communicate bad news.
- Educational skills.
What other specialties use a similar skill/competence set?
None use all of the competencies of this
specialty, but some are used in the operating theatre and in
emergency medicine departments.