Open AccessTECHNOLOGY DRIVEN TEACHING HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
Rahmatullah Khan,
Ashfaq Akram,
Farzana Rizwan,
Zahedi Daud,
Abbottabad Pakistan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.10.1717
Subject(s) - teaching hospital , economic shortage , medicine , medical education , teaching method , medical emergency , family medicine , mathematics education , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
Bedside teaching is the heart of clinical teaching in a medical programme.Most of times, it is conducted inside the ward which hinders the privacy of patientsand enhances the disturbance of other inpatients. In resource constrained countries,a teaching hospital serves for multiple medical schools. It is major challenge toprovide satisfactory clinical teaching to students of multiple medical schools becauseof shortage of teaching hospitals in those countries. The present article presents aproposal to enhance clinical teaching for multiple medical schools being attached toa single teaching hospital. Its template and potential benefits are discussed.