# About

MySkills Medic is a clinical procedural skills guide for graduating medical students, interns and community service doctors, where they need it most: at the bedside.

Developed by the MySkills Consortium, MySkills Medic delivers a safe, shared and standardised approach to performing common medical procedures. Each module draws on international evidence-based protocols, medical school curricula and practical ‘troubleshooting’ tips from experienced clinicians working across diverse, often resource-constrained settings.

The MySkills Consortium is a social accountability collaboration of public sector clinicians, medical students and academic staff from South African universities (Cape Town, Free State, Stellenbosch and Witwatersrand). MySkills Medic is funded by Becton Dickinson, a leading provider of diagnostic medical equipment and consumables and a corporate driver for provider and patient safety at the bedside.

Our mission is to ensure that young clinicians have easy access to high-quality, validated learning resources, regardless of regional differences in training or practice. The Consortium is non-partisan, welcoming feedback and collaboration in editing or adding modules to this application, as well as developing future MySkills companion apps and offshoots. While aimed at young doctors, MySkills Medic recognises the importance of educating patients to make informed decisions on their care. Future versions aim expand the cultural and language diversity of the patient’s voice. Please make contact using myskillsmedic@gmail.com.

MySkills Medic is available free of charge from the Google Playstore, iStore and the SA Department of Health App store. Downloading the app does not require registration and logging in but users must abide within their legal scope of practice as a registered health care professional.

## Terms and Conditions

Legal code

- You may share (copy and redistribute) the material in any medium of format
- You may adapt (remix, transform or build on) the material
- You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made, in any reasonable manner but not in any way that suggests endorsement by the licensor
- The material may only be used for non-commercial purposes (it may not be ‘sold’)
- You may not apply legal terms or measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits

## MySkills Consortium

University affiliated clinicians

Dr Rachel Weiss (UCT)

Dr Marvin Jansen (UCT)

Ms Jocelyn Park-Ross (UCT)

Prof Mathys Labuschagne (UFS)

Mrs Cheryl Rafferty (UFS)

Prof Elize Archer (US)

Mrs Bronwen Espen (US)

Dr Stuart Pattinson (Wits)

Non-affiliated clinicians

Dr Emlyn Allwright

Dr Sue-Ann Gouvea

Mr Rudi Holtshauzen

Dr Justine Wooding

Dr Azhar Nadkar

Medical students

Ms Funmi Afolayan

Mr Erick Gerber