Education
Our Clinical Skill & Assessment Goals
The Center for Bedside Medicine aims to:
- Improve bedside clinical skills for students, residents, educators and clinicians across all specialties.
- Empower faculty and trainees to effectively teach and assess clinical skills.
- Create scalable clinical skills assessments that can be deployed across multiple learner groups and specialties.
- Incorporate precision education approaches to improve bedside skills for clinicians at all levels of training.
- Incorporate point-of-care technology (e.g., point-of-care ultrasound - POCUS) into the modern clinical encounter and define the skills that trainees should acquire in UME and GME for both physical exam and POCUS.
- Promote diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine and medical education through the bedside encounter.
The Bedside Medicine Scholars Program
Our center administers the Society of Bedside Medicine Scholars Program, which provides a one-year grant to three individuals (including at least one from Northwestern University) each year. The grant will allow these clinician-educators to conduct a bedside medicine project at their home institution.
Visit the Society Site for Application InformationTeaching the Physical Exam in the Modern Hospital
Watch center director Brian T. Garibaldi, MD, MEd, speak to the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators in a faculty development workshop.
Resuscitating the Bedside Encounter
Catch Dr. Garibaldi's recent presentation during the Department of Medicine's Grand Rounds.
Watch Grand Rounds