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Top 10 ideas to improve your bedside teaching in a busy emergency department
  1. Gary M Green,
  2. Esther H Chen
  1. University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Esther H Chen, University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, 1E21, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA; esther.chen{at}emergency.ucsf.edu

Abstract

Physicians are called upon to teach students, residents, patients and their families in the clinical environment every day as part of clinical care. A fast-paced emergency department offers a unique set of challenges that require the physician to be an effective communicator. We present a top 10 list of ideas selected from the literature for the busy clinician to use on that next shift to improve bedside teaching.

  • education
  • teaching

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