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respiratory diseases major cause mortality morbidity worldwide sound knowledge management respiratory diseases thus vital clinical exposure undergraduate medical students limited 2 weeks pulmonary medicine hypothesized short duration posting best utilized developing needbased modules bedside teaching study aimed determine gain knowledge skills finalyear medical students diagnosis management common pulmonary diseases assess students perception module onegroup pretestposttest quasiexperimental study design enrolled convenience sample 48 finalyear medical students twentyfour students posted given time bedside clinical posting pulmonary medicine august 2013 november 2013 students divided randomly two groups 12 students students consented part study two trained faculty taught rotation bedside teaching module prepared delphi technique curriculum based kerns sixstep approach history taking physical examination tuberculosis chronic obstructive pulmonary disease asthma lung cancer chest xrays spirometry taught students administered pre posttest questionnaires assess knowledge objective structured clinical examination assessed skills students feedback questionnaire evaluated teaching module twotailed paired sample ttest assessed mean gain knowledge skills effect size calculated cohens cronbachs alpha estimated reliability testing perception questionnaire statistical analysis performed using statistical software package ibm spss version 23 mean pre posttest knowledge scores 1246 809 4317 107 respectively p 0001 mean pre posttest skills scores 700 476 2479 331 respectively p 0001 cohens showed large effect size students stated module enhanced clinical skills helped understand difficult material promoted inquiry thinking cronbachs alpha perception questionnaire 0854 structured bedside teaching module pulmonary medicine improved knowledge skills undergraduate medical students contents various teaching methodologies evaluated positively