No book on the subject of clinical examination can be a substitute for bedside experience. Art of Medicine is seldom if ever mastered, even by expert. If you would learn to do a thing, you go to one who does it well, you watch, you listen and your first attempts are made under supervision. The teaching of medical Practice began & has continued until recent times under such a simple system of apprenticeship -Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945) text books are there to start you on your way to becoming a clinician. As a student you have been a receiver.
School has focused on providing you with knowledge & experience & you are duly awarded. Now you take your first step as a giver, for to practice medicine is to serve. From here on you must evaluate yourself. At this time you are beginning a life time of self education. Your success or failure in making the adjustment of the next year or two will…
