For their three years of schooling, law students are required to do little more than read cases and discuss the theories, policies, and strategies behind them. Case study, Socratic teaching, and written exams are an excellent academic foundation for teaching people to practice law. However, they are only the beginning. One hundred textbooks do not equal one real person with a real problem. One hundred textbooks do not equal one real person with a real problem.
Medical students spend only two years in a classroom learning anatomy, biochemistry, etc.
Then, they venture out among the sick and injured. During years three and four, med students go to a real hospital, with a real doctor, and observe the treatment of real patients. But that's not the end. Each doctor must be accepted for a residency at a hospital where he or she selects a specialty. Depending on the specialty, it can take up to twelve years before these doctors are deemed fit to present themselves to the world as an independent professional.