The article is devoted to ethical aspects of bedside training. Education of future specialists in the clinical setting is important to acquire knowledge, skills, professional competencies and to form clinical thinking. Transfer of professional medical experience occurs simultaneous to the development of communication skills which are required to deal with patients, their relatives, colleagues and mentors. It is about comprehension of how the normal standards of medical deontology are implemented in real practice and how important the effective therapeutic alliance is while interacting with the patient. Though bedside training is a long-standing tradition of medical education, the origins of which are associated with the Ancient Greek Healing Practices, it is not always understood and supported by patients and their relatives, and requires students to get more familiar with ethical standards regulating similar education and their behavior within a medical group and institution.