Hashim Hashim, Paul Abrams, and
Roger Dmochowski (Eds.)

2008

Time constraints on the undergraduate curriculum and changes in patients’ attitudes have resulted in medical students and doctors-in-training receiving reduced formal teaching and acquiring fewer practical skills than their predecessors. This can mean that many doctors have very limited experience of even the common diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that they are likely to encounter in their day-to-day practice as trainees.