Teaching on the run tips 4: teaching with patients.

Abstract

Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA. Fiona R Lake, MD, FRACP, Associate Professor in Medicine and Medical Education. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA. Gerard Ryan, MB BS, FRACP, Respiratory Physician. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Fiona R Lake, Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia, First Floor, N Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA 6009. flake@cyllene.uwa.edu.au The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 2 August 2004 181 3 158-159 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Teaching on the run tions by junior staff at the bedside significantly incr doctors spend with patients, and such patients are m be satisfied with their inpatient stay. They prefer ha present t ir history in fro t of them than outside th Teaching with patients allows the important doma to be integrated through teaching, observation and ling. These domains include: There should be no teaching without the patient for a text, and the best teaching is often that taught by the patient himself.