Bedside Teaching in Australian Clinical Schools: A National Study

Table 4

Disadvantages of BST.

Disadvantages of BST	Number of respondents noting this disadvantage
Class sizes too large	57
Time consuming for tutors	54
Patients unwilling/unavailable	52
Patient inconvenience	44
Student humiliation/intimidation/pressure	41
Unequal participation within groups	36
Variable quality of teaching	35
Difficult to organise	32