As your first step into your future career as a doctor, the clinical skills lab aims to provide you with training in the fundamental skills you'll be using on daily basis, the skills of history taking and physical examination are central to the practice of clinical medicine which is why it's crucial for you to master them. Thus through out your first 3 years in med school you'll be taking progressively more and more advanced skills through the 5 levels of CSL, so that as your theoretical knowledge base grows broader so does your practical one.