Teaching Medical Students How to Do Histories and Physicals
Document Type
Letter
Publication Date
11-8-1979
Description
To the Editor: The clinical skills of past and current medical graduates are defective.1,2 Many graduates take patient histories poorly, and physical-diagnostic skills are in need of correction as well. Clearly, the teaching of clinical skills requires a highly skilled and trained faculty with much experience in these disciplines. There is a general shortage of such persons in academic positions today. Because of this shortage of highly skilled general academic internists and a general disinterest in what many view as a tedious, repetitive, although crucial job, the task of teaching clinical skills often falls on senior students, residents, nurses and. No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
Citation Information
Wiener, Stanley L.. 1979. Teaching Medical Students How to Do Histories and Physicals. New England Journal of Medicine. Vol.301(19). 1067-1068. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM197911083011923 PMID: 492247 ISSN: 0028-4793