The status of ward-based clinical education: the medical students’ opinion

Abstract

Farzana Begum,1 Farah Jaffar,1 Doa’a Kerwat,1 Salma Marouf,1 Hiral Rana,1 Yasir Ashraf,2 Bassit Malik,2 1Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK We read with great interest the article by Jones and Rai,1 which researched the views of medical students toward bedside teaching. Students from only four UK medical schools were surveyed and the findings lacked qualitative feedback; hence, as fifth year medical students from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Imperial College London, we express our views on bedside teaching and other resources of clinical education.  View the original paper by Jones and Rai. 

Keywords

• bed-side teaching
• ward-based teaching
• medical student
• medical education