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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.
  • Incorporate point-of-care technology (e.g., point-of-care ultrasound) into the modern clinical encounter and define the skills that trainees should acquire in undergraduate and graduate medical education for both physical exam and POCUS.
  • Promote health equity 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 annually. The grant allows clinician-educators to conduct a bedside medicine project at their home institution.

Learn More about the Scholars Program

Our Recent Talks and Workshops

Teaching 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.
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Medicine Grand Rounds Talk

Dr. Garibaldi presents "Reinvigorating the Bedside Clinical Encounter", during the Department of Medicine's Grand Rounds, recorded live at Stanford University on April 23, 2025.

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Technology and the Future of Bedside Medicine

Roy Ziegelstein hosts special guest Dr. Brian Garibaldi in the inaugural episode of Coeur de Roy - the Heart of Clinical Care. 
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The Lost Art of Bedside Medicine

See Dr. Brian Garibaldi's most recent appearance on WGN TV as he discusses how to bring back the lost art of bedside medicine.
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Teaching Physical Examination at the Bedside

Listen to Dr. Brian Garibaldi discuss the importance of strategies for incorporating the physical exam into the daily practice of medicine on episode 2 of the ACP Teaching and Coaching in the Hospital Podcast, released on March 28, 2025.
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Medical AI Needs Our Help – Here’s Why

Watch Dr. Garibaldi’s recent CoDEx webinar with Dr. Andrew Elder from the RCPE entitled “Medical AI Needs Our Help – Here’s Why.”
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