Abstract
Most physicians and medical educators would agree that basic clinical skills are critical to physician medical decision-making. However, even with initiation of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination in 2004, there is little spoken consensus or dialogue among medical schools concerning the delivery of curriculum on clinical skills, the existence of agreed upon standards, or even organized discussion about standards.1 The manner in which medical students learn clinical skills is widely varied, and the acquisition of the skills is evaluated in a variety of ways, from written and multiple-choice exams to standardized patient/simulation-based performance exams.
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