Table 1.

Themes and subthemes of the study

The gap of transferring formal teaching from skill lab to clinical settings	Need to experience on the real patient
	Continuing formal education in skill lab in bedside
	Theory-based skill evaluation in clinic
	Lack of planning, being free
Learning self-leading basic skills in clinical setting (the solution of filling gap of formal teaching)	This is not my main task, but I have to learn it
	Active self-learning in low controlled space
Students’ dissatisfaction- patients’ vulnerability	Inability to achieve required competencies
	Vulnerable patients