Demise of Clinical Methods: A Challenge for the Next Generation

Abstract

Clinical methods have evolved over centuries. They reflect cumulative clinical wisdom of generations. Acquisition of skill of performing clinical methods has been regarded as a means of gaining knowledge. These skills not only help in learning psychomotor skills, but they also offer an opportunity to learn professionalism.1 Excellence in these skills have been sought and desired as the way to reach a diagnosis. To be proficient, it requires hard work of years and interactions among a community of professionals refine these acumen over time.