Medical Students Lack Key Clinical Skills, 2 Studies Find

Medical schools must do a better job of teaching clinical skills like interviewing and examining patients before their students start rotations in hospital wards and doctors' offices in their third and fourth years, according to two studies released last week by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Reports of the studies were published in the January issue of the journal Academic Medicine.

"If they're not getting the basics early on, they may not be getting the most out of

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