1. Its inclusion in the undergraduate programme could enhance student awareness and clinical skills relating to the locomotor system and to disability in general. Consideration of such a screen is particularly germane at a time when the undergraduate curriculum is under review with major emphasis on clinical skills and attitudes. For these reasons the 'GALS' screen has been endorsed by the education committees of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council,1991
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