Practical tips for bedside teaching of infectious diseases practice to junior doctors

Twelve tips to improve bedside teaching.

Bedside teaching has long been considered the most effective method to teach clinical skills and communication skills. Despite this belief, the frequency of bedside rounds is decreasing and it is believed that this is a major factor causing a sharp decline in trainees' clinical skills. Several barriers appear to contribute to this lack of teaching at the bedside and have been discussed extensiv...

Barriers facing junior doctors in rural practice.

INTRODUCTION Early postgraduate, or junior doctors, are still required to practise in rural and remote communities, and they continue to face numerous issues and difficulties. Within the hospital setting, exposure to rural practice appears to be very limited during internship, and also to some extent, during the second postgraduate year and beyond. This is a major issue for those required to un...

Notification of infectious diseases by junior doctors in accident and emergency departments.

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge about notifiable infectious diseases by accident and emergency (A&E) senior house officers. METHODS A telephone questionnaire of senior house officers was carried out over a one week period at the end of their six month attachment in A&E departments in Northern Ireland. RESULTS 81 (91%) of the senior house officers participated in the study; 23 (29%) realis...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Teaching in the outpatient clinic. Practical tips.

F or teachers of medicine, the outpatient clinic promises many unique educational opportunities including more complete observation of chronic diseases, closer relationships between teachers and learners, and a more appropriate forum for teaching preventive medicine, medical interviewing, and psychosocial aspects of disease. Despite these educational benefits, teachers face many challenges in t...