Clinical acumen is a skill applied to form a judgment and take a correct decision accordingly. This is the definition of "clinical acumen" by Cambridge English dictionary. Now with experience a lot of us will realise that clinical acumen and good clinical decisions are not the basis of good clinical practice albeit makes a significant part of it. I personally believe it is communication skills. I might rant about a story that I was just told today where clinical acumen although exemplary, still didn't end well. In this post I want to give the resources and, the tips and tricks that personally helped me a lot when I first started in the NHS. I also could have potentially used them better. Anyway I will split them to interpersonal skills and resources Resources : I believe clinical acumen is built on collecting the data, then assimilating this date and bringing it together then coming to a conclusion that you are going to act upon. So it split in data collection, interpret...