Patients embodied and as-a-body within bedside teaching encounters: a video ethnographic study.

ABSTRACT: Bedside teaching encounters (BTEs) involve doctor-patient-student interactions, providing opportunities for students to learn with, from and about patients. How the differing concerns of patient care and student education are balanced in situ remains largely unknown and undefined. This video ethnographic study explores patient involvement during a largely student-centric activity: 'feedback sequences' where students learn clinical and practical skills. Drawing on a data subset from a multi-site study, we used Conversation Analysis to investigate verbal and non-verbal interactional practices to examine patients' inclusion and exclusion from teaching activities across 25 BTEs in General Practice and General Surgery and Medicine with 50 participants. Through analysis, we identified two repres

SUBMITTER: Elsey C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5306437 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature