Summary:
Introduction: Bedside teaching is the core teaching strategy
in the clinical study in undergraduate medical education of
Bangladesh. Many of the environments and opportunities
available for bedside teaching and learning have changed.
Students’ views about current status of bed side teaching in
Obstetrics and Gynaecology was studied in this study.
Methodology: This was a cross sectional study conducted
in seven (three public and four private) medical colleges in
Bangladesh from July 2012 to June 2013. A total 578, 5th
year MBBS students were enrolled who have completed at
least 15 days of bedside teaching in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology department. A self-administered structured
questionnaire (Annex 1) with a five point Likert scale (1-
strongly disagree, 5-strongly agree) was used for obtaining
information from the students. The questionnaire had four
main sections- physical environment of bedside sessions,
issues regarding patient’s comfort and attitude towards
patient, teaching tasks, group dynamics and there was a
space to write any other comments. Each section had a
number of items and total 25 items were observed. For each
variable frequency distribution, mean score and standard
deviation (SD) were calculated. Here mean score 5- no need
of further improvement, as it covered all the required
criteria, 4 to <5- very minimum effort, 3 to <4- some effort,
2 to <3= moderate effort, 1to <2= considerable efforts are
needed to fulfill the required criteria.
Result: The overall mean score on physical environment
factors was 2.75(.44), issues regarding patient’s comfort and
attitude toward patient was 3.74(.48), teaching tasks was
3.12(.45) and group dynamics was 3.08(.21).
Conclusion: In all aspects of bed side teaching minimum
to moderate efforts are necessary to make it more effective.
The administrators and teachers should ensure comfortable
physical environment in bedside teaching and must learn
how to involve patients and learners in the educational
process. So along with training on general principles of
teaching, the clinical teachers should be provided with
special training on bedside teaching skills.
(J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2017; 35: 163-169)