Basic surgical skills are needed throughout the medical profession, but training is often haphazard and unpredictable. Pressure is increasing to provide transparency about training and performance standards. Clinical Governance is on the way.

The "see one, do one, teach one" approach is no longer acceptable, either to patients, or to the profession. But financial and administrative pressures mean that junior medical staff find it increasingly difficult to access appropriate amounts of practice.

So there is a real need to build learning systems in which learners can achieve a high level of technical competence before carrying out procedures on patients.

Medical Skills Ltd. address some of these needs in their products. We make simple to use, yet powerful multimedia programs for teaching clinical skills, and for self-directed learning.

When combined with practice using simulated tissue models, Medical Skills provide an effective solution for skills training requirements in medicine.