title: Top 10 ideas to improve your bedside teaching in a busy emergency department.
abstract: Physicians are called upon to teach students, residents, patients and their families in the clinical environment every day as part of clinical care. A fast-paced emergency department offers a unique set of challenges that require the physician to be an effective communicator. We present a top 10 list of ideas selected from the literature for the busy clinician to use on that next shift to improve bedside teaching.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.
authors.forename: Gary M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Green
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA.
authors.forename: Esther H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*
keywords: education; teaching