Speeding up clinical skills development in accelerated undergraduate medical education: current insights from cognitive science

There is an increasing need to speed up essential clinical skills development to accelerate basic and postgraduate training. Insights from precision education and cognitive science can provide a variety of practical evidence-based strategies for speeding up clinical skills development. Insights from precision education highlights the importance of personalised training, which can be informed by using learning curves of skill development. Insights from cognitive science highlight the need to ensure readiness for training, provide coaching with guided practice and further opportunities for spaced repeated practice across a variety of situations. Educators can integrate these practical strategies with their existing approaches to skills training for speeding up clinical skills training