Hyposkillia-old and current concerns

Vitorino Modesto dos Santos^1, Taciana Arruda Modesto Sugai², Lister Aruda Modesto dos Santos³

DOI: 10.32677/yjm.v2i2.4048

DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.32677/yjm.v2i2.4048

Publish Date: 28-09-2023

Pages: 64 - 65

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Author Affiliation:

¹Adjunct-Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital, Catholic University of Brasília, 
²Department of Medicine, American Society of Neurophysiology, and Dermatologist of Brasília, Brasília-DF, 
³Preceptor, Department of Surgery, Advanced General Surgery and Oncosurgery of IAMSPE, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.

Abstract

The deleterious diminished clinical skills (hyposkillia) associated, at least in part, with reforms in medical education around the world have been little discussed over the past two decades. In fact, very expensive instrumental examinations, and diagnostic tests have now replaced the ancient art of clinical diagnosis, as William Osler anticipated when he said that medicine is learned at the bedside, not in the classroom