Strategies for overcoming ICU instruction obstacles include condensing educational interactions and conducting bedside teaching sessions. The ICU is a unique care environment that includes teaching of ...

Earlier this year, I accepted the role of quality officer at my institution. One of my responsibilities is to help monitor and improve our hospital's performance on patient satisfaction. The patients' ...

Most commonly reported error in the physical exam is that the exam was never performed Report in the New England Journal of Medicine is part of a six-issue series on ...

Bedside ward rounds were more efficient (11.89 versus 14.14 minutes/patient). "These findings suggest that bedside teaching is efficient and that we should teach at the bedside, but doing so requires ...

Hurried conversations, paper brochures, and other long-standing approaches to patient education often fall short of their goals, so it’s little surprise that researchers are eyeing digital ...

BEDSIDE teaching has become a well established procedure in the instruction of medical students and graduate medical students. In the essentials of an approved internship, the Council on Medical ...

In the past few decades, there has been much money and research invested into hospital automation, robotic-assisted surgeries and the use of artificial intelligence to optimize physician tasks. There ...

At its most fundamental level, the clinical encounter between a patient and their doctor seeks to solve a mystery. Clinicians uncover clues through the history, physical examination, and ancillary ...

Today's doctor visits look and feel a lot different than they did even just a couple decades ago. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Rushed physicians and medical ...