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Content provided by Jon Lund
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Graduate Entry Medicine & Health, University of Nottingham
 
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SKILLS

The student should be able to:
  1. Perform a full rectal examination including inspection and digitation.
  2. Perform a proctoscopy on a patient with suspected haemorrhoids and correctly interpret the appearances.
  3. In a patient with intestinal obstruction demonstrate the signs of obstruction and in a patient with strangulation, demonstrate the signs of strangulation.