The status of bedside teaching in the United Kingdom: the student perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Bedside teaching holds a strong tradition as a key-learning platform for clinical examination in the basic medical clerkship. There is a growing body of literature expressing concern for its witnessed decline in medical school curricula. However, the views of students toward this patient-centered cornerstone in surgical education remain under-reported. The purpose of this study was to gain a nationwide perspective on bedside teaching according to medical students in the United Kingdom.

Materials and methods

An adapted Delphi method was employed to formulate the question series as part of a multi-step process including a pilot study, which was used to construct this survey. The target population was medical undergraduates in the United Kingdom and participants were re

SUBMITTER: Jones P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461119 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature