Location: Faculty member, residents, and students meet on a
designated hospital floor and move to patient’s bedside
and/or conference room.
Faculty: General Medicine and Specialty faculty.
Schedule:
Days: 10:30AM – 12:00 N Tuesday and Thursday. Only the pre-call
and on-call teams (if call duties permit) are expected to attend.
No sessions will be held the 1st day of each month.
Nights: N/A
Links to Curricular Area: General Internal Medicine, most subspecialties.
Primary Goals:
A. to teach patient care that is compassionate, appropriate and
effective thorough history-taking and examination skills;
B. to demonstrate the development of solid differential diagnoses
for a presenting complaint or constellation of complaints
C. to demonstrate effective communication between a physician
and the patient, patient’s families, nurses, and ancillary
staff;
D. to discuss efficient diagnostic strategies and treatment plans.
Resources: Primarily this venue occurs at the bedside,
but can utilize, if needed, conference rooms with blackboards,
computer-based PACS-system for review of pertinent radiological
studies, and laboratory equipment (e.g. review of peripheral blood
smears or microscopic exam of urine).
Method of Resident Evaluation: The resident presenting the case
will be informally evaluated for content and accuracy of presentation
and physical exam.
Method of Venue Evaluation: Surveys will be collected annually
asking the residents to evaluate on a 5 point scale the effectiveness
of a particular attending's teaching ability.
Feedback: Informal is verbal feedback given by faculty to residents
during discussion of the case.
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine Department of Medicine
