Defining Bedside Teaching as a Practice

Defining Bedside Teaching as a Practice

Release Date: 7/1/2021 Faculty Disclosures
Expiration Date: 6/30/2024 Accreditation Statement
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Target Audience

This online module is intended for physicians and other health care professionals who teach students in the clinical setting.


"Fundamentally, good bedside teaching is ensuring that everyone in the room, the patient and/or family members, physicians, and trainees, understand the next steps in the patient's care."

Dr. James Willig, Division of infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine

James Willig MD

Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to:

  • Define the concept of bedside rounding
  • Identify room dynamics that might facilitate or inhibit engaging a learner in the bedside environment

Click below to listen to Dr. James Willig and student Haddon Mullins discuss aspects of teaching at the bedside that are considered important by our faculty and specific circumstances that can impact effectiveness.

Defining Bedside Rounds

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