title: [Clinical practice is the most important environment to acquire clinical knowledge].
abstract: The amount of learning devoted to clinical teaching in medical schools is under pressure from increased amounts of time devoted to so-called 'basic sciences' and recent emphasis on non-medical competencies. Clinical teaching, in direct contact with real patients and supervised by experienced clinical teachers, should remain the core of medical education. Competing subjects should be regarded as important, but limited, corollaries.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, afd. Neurologie, Amsterdam. j.stam@amc.uva.nl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stam
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000592:standards*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans