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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.5 - assembling and fabricating products S6.5.2 - fabricating medical and prosthetic devices Design medical supportive devices
Description
Compose, create and evaluate orthopaedic and prosthetic devices after consulting with physicians, examining and measuring the patient in order to determine the size of the artificial limb.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Prosthetist-orthotistProsthetist-orthotists design and custom fit prostheses and orthoses for individuals who are missing a limb from accident, disease, or congenital conditions or for individuals who …
Related skills
- Medical devices materials
- Prosthetic devices
- Carry out work-related measurements
- Ensure safety of healthcare users
- Work in multidisciplinary health teams
- Recommend orthotic devices
- Biomechanics
- Pedorthics
- Instruct patients on supportive devices
- Repair orthopedic goods
- Manipulate wood
- Comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- Perform a prosthetic examination of the patient
- Hygiene in a health care setting
- Modify casts for prostheses
