Teaching Bedside Manners to Medical Students

Bedside manners: do we care?

BACKGROUND Teaching bedside manner might prove to be one of the most challenging tasks in medical education as it is not easy to structure or formalise such training. Besides, the rigorous training process for acquiring clinical and technical skills often overshadows the humanistic aspect of medical care. The aim of this study was to assess the perception of final year medical students as well ...

Teaching ethics to medical students.

While few would deny that some attention must be given to ethical issues as part of a medical student's education it has never been clear how this might be best achieved. And at the present time those who are battling with this problem have a further dilemma. On the one hand, the numbers of ethical issues that face the medical profession are increasing at a frightening rate, ranging as they do ...

Bedside Infant Manikins for Teaching Newborn Examination to Medical Undergraduates.

OBJECTIVE To study whether using infant manikins during clinical posting could help in teaching newborn examination to undergraduate medical students. METHODS 111 final MBBS students were taught newborn examination either by the new method which included practice on infant manikins at the bedside before examining babies (Group 1) or by the traditional method which involved directly examining ...

Teaching the humanities to medical students.

The decoding of the human genome offers great promise for the understanding and treatment of chronic human diseases at the last frontier. There is a widely recognised hazard that an exaggerated emphasis on molecular reductionism may lead to the loss of the essential humanitarian instincts of young doctors. To counteract this danger it is now accepted by many leading figures of the medical estab...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students