Background: Interdisciplinary clinical rounds at the bedside can promote the core principles of patient- and family-centered care, including promoting respect and dignity, information sharing, and participation by the patient in the care and decision making.  However, despite rounding at the bedside, the patient can still be a bystander as the team presents a care plan [...]

Background: Teaching during bedside rounds is necessary to educate students and housestaff, but attendings rarely receive structured feedback on their teaching and rounding practices. We aimed to evaluate a Peer Observation Program and a structured bedside rounds observation tool. We hypothesized that participants would value observing their colleagues, report more effective preparation of the team [...]

Background: Internal medicine bedside rounds should be efficient and educational. We previously piloted literature-based faculty development workshops emphasizing attending leadership in team preparation for rounds and the importance of not interrupting learners. Participants raised three key questions: (1) Do interruptions actually adversely affect the efficiency or educational value of rounds? (2) Do learners believe that [...]