The Patientʼs Reaction to Bedside Teaching

Teaching at the bedside.

Patient 's Bedside Teaching: Advantages and Disadvantages

Introduction:Nursing education includes both theoretical and clinical areas, therefore it has special features and problems of its own. One is establishing integration between theoretical and clinical training . Patient's bedside teaching is considered to be an important component of clinical education. Time spent with the patient is full of visual, auditory and tactile experiences and there...

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...

On bedside teaching.

Actual teaching at the bedside during attending rounds, with emphasis on history taking and physical diagnosis, has declined from an incidence of 75% in the 1960s to an incidence of less than 16% today. Profound advances in technology, in imaging, and in laboratory testing and our fascination for these aspects of patient care, account for part of this decline, but faculty must also assume respo...

Back to basics: tackling the challenges to bedside teaching

Correspondence: rizwan Dewji Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK tel +44 020 7589 5111 Email [email protected] Dear Editor In recent times, there has been a declining trend in bedside teaching as part of the medical teaching curriculum. It is clear that this fundamental issue presents a potential barrier to the development of both curren...