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Teaching and Assessing Manual Skills

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Manual skills are all those skills which involve use of the hands. For example, giving an injection, palpating an abdomen, focusing a microscope, measuring blood pressure (BP), preparing a blood slide, etc., are all manual skills.

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© 1985 Fred Abbatt and Rosemary McMahon

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Abbatt, F., McMahon, R. (1985). Teaching and Assessing Manual Skills. In: Teaching Health-Care Workers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18046-2_13

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