Purpose: Advanced methodical learning and optimised learning leads to better-trained doctors. Such teaching typically comprises the illustration of features and access to facilities. This article explores the role of “Special clinics” in medical education. The role of sophisticated “Special clinics” is to provide vigour and vibrancy in treating and teaching as well as advancing the art and science of medicine. All this contributes towards the current evidence indicating benefits of reducing hospitalization.
Methods: This article comprises an analysis of the guidance produced by leading medical education institutions. Findings are presented in the perspective of a relevant theoretical framework around “Special clinics”, in light of the available evidence and personal experience.
Results: The implementation and potential impacts of “Special clinics” are presented within the context of the “ 4SAs”, a favoured teaching mnemonic: 1) Scientific Approach: medical education rules and regulations reflecting scientific reasoning in support of “Special clinics”, 2) Setting Advantages: the mechanisms by which “Special clinics” are conducive to and contribute towards increasing the capacity to comprehensively treat complex disorders in the outpatient setting, avoiding hospitalization and its associated risks, as well as expenditure, 3) Sophistication Advantages: tools and techniques to ensure advanced clinical skills teaching including novel outpatient technologies, understanding the need for focussed study and practice, and exploiting the advantages of internationalization of medical education, and 4) Successes and Advancements: opportunities to observe experts providing specialist care of the highest standard. The use of a focussed approach aims to explore and advance frontiers of medical education.
Conclusion: “Special clinics” will soon form a major component of the hospital workload and play a crucial role in medical education. They provide the advantage of condition-specific patient-centered care, the motivation for excellence. Clinical skills learnt by medical students in “Special clinics” will undoubtedly contribute to long-term improvements in the medical care.

Keywords: medical education, competency, outpatient clinics, communication skills, case-based learning, patient-centered care

中文翻译：

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“专科诊所”在传授临床技能中的作用：能力和复杂性的医学教育

目的：先进的有条不紊的学习和优化的学习导致训练有素的医生。这种教学通常包括对特征的说明和对设施的访问。本文探讨了“特殊诊所”在医学教育中的作用。复杂的“特殊诊所”的作用是在治疗和教学以及推进医学艺术和科学方面提供活力和活力。所有这些都有助于目前的证据表明减少住院治疗的好处。
方法：本文分析了领先的医学教育机构制定的指南。根据现有证据和个人经验，从围绕“特殊诊所”的相关理论框架的角度提出了研究结果。
结果：有机会观察专家提供最高标准的专业护理。使用集中方法旨在探索和推进医学教育的前沿。
结论： “专科门诊”将很快成为医院工作量的主要组成部分，并在医学教育中发挥至关重要的作用。它们提供了以患者为中心的特定条件护理的优势，以及追求卓越的动力。医学生在“专科诊所”学到的临床技能，无疑将有助于医疗保健的长期改善。

关键词：医学教育，能力，门诊，沟通技巧，基于案例的学习，以病人为中心的护理