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Bedside teaching: everybody's but nobody's responsibility.
Amy Gimson1, Shagayegh Javadzadeh1, Akash Doshi1
1Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Advances in Medical Education and Practice
|June 20, 2019
Summary
Medical schools in the UK face declining bedside teaching. A quality improvement project suggests strategies like incentivizing educators and assigning personal responsibility to improve medical student engagement in teaching programs.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Clinical Pedagogy
Background:
- Bedside teaching for medical students in UK district general hospitals is declining.
- Disengagement in teaching stems from a lack of individual responsibility among educators.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and propose solutions for the dwindling levels of bedside teaching.
- To enhance medical student engagement through a quality improvement project.
Main Methods:
- A quality improvement project was conducted in a District General Hospital.
- Strategies proposed include harnessing support from medical education leads, incentivizing teaching, and allocating student-junior doctor groups for personal responsibility.
Main Results:
- The project identified key areas for intervention to improve teaching engagement.
- Proposed strategies aim to foster a supportive framework and educate on teaching barriers.
Conclusions:
- Effective medical student teaching programs can be developed by addressing educator disengagement.
- Implementing strategies such as incentivization and defined responsibility can revitalize bedside teaching.