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have been designed and experimented with. Adjusting
the way of teaching MSK examination skills by focusing
on one general approach for conducting the exam then by
focusing on a primary objective for examining individual
patients should enable us to overcome many obstacles in
evaluating MSK disorders. Furthermore, examination
should be geared to patients’ specific conditions. For
example, a clinician attempting to evaluate a MSK prob-
lem should ask himself/herself: am I dealing with a sport
injury (for example) or an inflammatory arthritis? The
answer of this question should be based on careful his-
torical points. The future direction of research should
focus on defining and validating precise techniques of
how to examine joints. However, in order to make any of
this happen, a true interest and strong desire to overcome
this observed deficiencies in MSK examinatio n skills are
required among medical educators.
7. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Alzaidi Chair of Re-
search in Rheumatic Diseases, Umm Alqura University
for supporting this work and Dr. Khadee jah Bawazeer for
reviewing the manuscript.
This work was fund ed and supported b y Alzaidi Chair
of Research in Rheumatic Diseases, umm Alqura Uni-
versity, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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