Register today to join AAIM leaders for the webinar "Bedside Beyond the Physical Exam: Strategies to Bring Learners Back to the Bedside," which will be held Thursday, October 3, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT.
Bedside teaching (BT), a critical component of medical education has steadily declined over time. BT offers the opportunity to demonstrate many skills beyond physical diagnosis. Multiple perceived and actual barriers to reestablish this essential medical education practice have been described including attending’s own comfort level at the bedside and balancing competing roles as the team leader, diagnostician, and a teacher, amongst others. There is also a common misconception that the utility of BT is limited to the teaching of physical exam skills.
Per ACGME, teaching attendings in the wards and ambulatory settings are expected to validate patient assessment by trainees, teach and assess patient-centered communication, clinical reasoning, physical diagnosis, humanism, and oral presentation skills. Bedside is an effective venue to teach and role model most of these skills and is not merely a venue limited to demonstration of physical diagnosis. As we manage the increasing challenges of balancing the various duties of today's teaching attendings, we need tools to engage our teams to make bedside visits a regular part of their experiential education in a way that combines patient care and teaching in a one-stop intervention without prolonging rounds.
We will start by discussing the rationale for why we as educators must continue to go to the patient’s bedside. Our webinar is designed to teach participants how to recognize and capture teachable moments at the bedside in any clinical setting while maximizing everyday patient care tasks. Additionally, attendees will learn how to use the bedside as an opportunity to evaluate several critical trainee skills. We will describe an efficient, flexible, and easy to use framework that participants can utilize for a structured approach to bedside encounters. Participants will acquire an assortment of strategies and teaching tips which will equip them with skills to successfully and efficiently manage patient care, teaching, and role modeling of clinical skills that are best demonstrated at the bedside.
Presenters:
Naseema B Merchant, MD, FACP, FHM
Site Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship
VA Connecticut Health Care System
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Cherinne Arundel, MD
Chief, Hospitalist Section and Assistant Chief of Medicine, Washington, DC, VA Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
George Washington University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Uniformed Services University
Kencee Graves, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Inpatient Services
Associate Professor of Medicine
Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine
University of Utah Health
Stephen Holt, MD, MS, FACP, FASAM
Associate Program Director Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Hussain Khawaja, MD
Associate Program Director Internal Medicine Residency
Site Director, Sub Internship Internal Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brown University