APRIL 2005
Volume 29 • No. 4

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Dean calls for improved bedside teaching

Dean Philip A. Pizzo has called for efforts to increase bedside teaching among faculty physicians following a report evaluating medical students.

"I am not pleased with the Clinical Performance results that evaluate the history taking and physical examination skills of our students. It seems clear that we need to improve both [skills] as an institution," Pizzo said in his March 21 e-newsletter. The results of medical student course evaluations, including evaluations of H&P teaching, were presented to the Medical School Faculty Senate on March 16.

Pizzo acknowledged that time pressures have often restricted the time that faculty could devote to bedside teaching and noted that a remediation plan will be identified to fine-tune the H&P skills of students by helping faculty members to become more engaged in teaching.

 

-Courtesy of Dean Philip A. Pizzo's e-newsletter, http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/archive/03_21_05.html