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Why teaching bedside skills to hospitalists is in decline

Only 17% of hospitalist teaching time is spent at the patient’s bedside, according to a new study “Quantification of Bedside Teaching by an Academic Hospitalist Group,” published in the May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Conducted at the Brigham and Women’s Hospitalist Service in Boston, the study asked residents and interns how much time hospitalist attending physicians spend at the bedside and how much they teach physical examination skills. The academic hospital found that hospitalists spend an average of 17 minutes inside patient rooms during rounds, which translates to only 17% of their teaching time spent at the bedside.

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