On Study of ‘Clinical Epidemiology’

Abstract

In today’s medical academia, leaders of the clinical disciplines commonly refrain from voicing their views about the role of the established ‘basic’ sciences in the practice of medicine. Instead, they now commonly recommend that their junior colleagues study ‘clinical epidemiology’ as a new ‘basic science’ of clinical medicine. Yet, most of these leaders themselves have not studied its precepts on any level, let alone critically in the context of genuine expertise on clinical research. Only very critical study of these precepts actually is justifiable, and this even in terms that are very different between future practitioners and future academics.