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Designed for medical education institutions in need of stronger clinical skill education objectives.      

OVERVIEW AND BENEFITS 

Clinical skills education for medical students requires a strong, explicit curriculum that identifies skills designed to be imparted before graduation. This report makes six recommendations for the effective implementation of clinical skills curriculum for medical schools.

This report recommends that medical schools make explicit the clinical skills curriculum for medical students. The task force makes six recommendations pertaining to the design and implementation of clinical skills curriculum, so that medical schools:

1. Adopt a set of common principles for guiding the clinical skills education process.
2. Enforce an explicit set of clinical skill education objectives
3. Identify a specific set of skills to be learned prior to graduation
4. Utilize a set of categories for organizing the selection of clinical skill learning opportunities
5. Follow an explicit developmental approach to the design of the skills education curriculum

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