By
NARASIMHAN RANGANATHAN
VAHE SIVACIYAN
FRANKLIN B. SAKSENA

2007

It has been our experience that instruction in physical examination of the heart in medical schools has been deteriorating since the advent of such modern diagnostic tools as two-dimensional echocardiography and nuclear imaging. At best, the teaching has been sketchy and too superficial for the student to appreciate the pathophysiological correlates.