title: Patient-centered Bedside Education and Traditional Jewish Law and Ethics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Bedside rounds have long been a time-honored component of medical education. Recently, there have been various recommendations that residency-training programs further incorporate bedside teaching into clinical curricula.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To compare these current attitudes regarding bedside education with the position of traditional Jewish law and ethics.
  
  
  METHODS
  Relevant medical journal articles and traditional Jewish sources were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Halacha (the corpus of traditional Jewish law and ethics) gives greater focus to a patient-centered rather than student-centered bedside education experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Residency training programs should give greater consideration to the importance of a patient-centered bedside education experience.
authors.affiliation: Program in Science, Halacha and Education, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Yigal
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shafran
authors.forename: Joel B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Wolowelsky
keywords: Bedside education; Jewish law and ethics; medical education; medical rounds
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