“Princess and the pea” – an assessment tool for palpation skills in postgraduate education

Abstract Background In osteopathic medicine, palpation is considered to be the key skill to be acquired during training. Whether palpation skills are adequately acquired during undergraduate or postgraduate training is difficult to assess. The aim of our study was to test a palpation assessment tool...

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Main Authors: Rainer Kamp, Andreas Möltner, Sigrid Harendza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-019-1619-6