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Personal Characteristics

Key skills and competencies  

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery requires a combination of diagnostic skills and surgical technique. This specialty requires a good sense of spatial awareness and 3D reasoning, the ability to think clearly and rationally under pressure and to be able to work in a physical as well as an intellectual capacity.

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