1. Introduction -- 2. Paradigmatic shifts in the theory, practice and teaching of medicine in recent decades -- 3. Teaching behavioral and social sciences to medical students -- 4. Difficulties in learning and teaching patient interviewing -- 5. Overcoming difficulties in teaching patient interviewing -- 6. Doctor-patient relations -- 7. Barriers to doctor-patient communication -- 8. Diagnostic utility of the physical examination and ancillary tests -- 9. Physical-examination skills: learning difficulties -- 10. Learning and teaching physical-examination skills by clinical context -- 11. Recording the clinical data base -- 12. Recording personal and social data and examination of asymptomatic persons -- 13. Recording the patient's history -- 14. Intuitive vs analytic clinical reasoning -- 15. Should clinical training rely on role modeling?.