Table 4 Quality of Patient Experiences of Bedside Teaching

Quality of Patient Experience of Bed Side Teaching

Positives of Experience

Patient felt the focus was sufficient

Patient felt she knew to say if she was or wasn’t happy about taking part

Patient felt student presence was controlled

Privacy and confidentiality were respected

Expectations could not have been better met

Passed the time

Helpful and interesting

Environment was private and controlled

Expectations met

Patient accepted students taking her history

Patient felt sufficiently consented

Patient felt included and involved in teaching

The tutorial did not upset the patient

Patient felt that they went into more detail

Patient felt that the tutorial moved naturally

Improvements for future BST

Patient would like a summary

Patient felt history taking was repetitive

Patient felt like the subject rather than included

Patient would like classes to be held somewhere more private

Lots of students asking questions

Students had difficulty understanding

To make sure patients are ok with it

Patients felt like the students were trying to get a lot of information in a short time

Patient recommended advising use of tutorial to patients

Patient would prefer more one to one or smaller groups

Patient was unsure what would happen to the

information collected

Patient felt she could not ask questions until the end