Despite the continuing emphasis on the importance of clinical skills, these skills do not appear to be improving and may actually be declining. The ‘unity of knowledge and action’ is a medicine directed precisely at this disease. The ‘unity of knowledge and action’ helps to learn from failure and successes, learn from mistakes of predecessors and institute a behaviour that prevents repetition of these mistakes.
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