So this is what I've learnt so far from going to The Canberra Hospital (TCH) sessions each Thursday.
Clinical skills part 1:
Communication, always something thats handy to have between a patient and doctor.
To cure sometimes, relieve often, comfort always!
Clinical skills part 2:
Someone presenting with chest pains means they have a pulmonary embolism. This is, for lack of a better word, bad, bad, bad, very very bad. Make sure they don't leave the clinic without seeing a proper doctor, ie. someone other than me!
Wash hands ALWAYS! Before seeing a patient, wash, greeting patient and thinking about doing anything related with physical contact, wash, make the physical contact, wash, before leaving the patients room, wash, writing up the patient notes, wash, contemplating about seeing another patient, wash, and the cycle continues.