Grand rounds
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Grand rounds are a methodology of medical education and inpatient care, consisting of presenting the medical problems and treatment of a particular patient to an audience consisting of doctors, pharmacists, residents, and medical students. It was first conceived by clinicians as a way for junior colleagues to round on patients.[1] The patient was traditionally present for the round and would answer questions;[citation needed] grand rounds have evolved with most sessions rarely having a patient present and being more like lectures. An actor portrays the patient in some instances.[1]
Originally a patient-centered experience aimed at increasing clinician knowledge for treating unique cases, today Grand Rounds is more commonly used to educate students, showcase faculty role models, and promote collegiality in clinical settings[1]
Shana Stites and Christina Warholic, Chestnut Hill College
Grand rounds help doctors and other healthcare professionals keep up to date in important evolving areas which may be outside of their core practice. Most departments at major teaching hospitals will have their own specialized, often weekly, grand rounds. Attending grand rounds is also an important supplement to
A 1966 report in the Australian journal Clinical Pediatrics called into question the sometimes inconsiderate behavior of practitioners who treated patients who were featured cases of grand rounds.[2]
Video archives
Many teaching and research hospitals have started providing
Many of these organizations provide an archive of several years of recent grand rounds presentations and as such offer a tremendous resource for increasing medical knowledge and improving patient care.
Footnotes
Citations
- ^ a b c Stites & Warholic 2014, p. 262.
- S2CID 12370826.
- ^ National Institutes of Health. "NIH VideoCast". Retrieved 13 September 2023.
- ^ Massachusetts General Hospital. "MGH Medical Grand Rounds". Retrieved 13 September 2023.
Works cited
- Stites, Shana D.; Warholic, Christina L. (2014). "Multicultural Grand Rounds: Competency-Based Training Model for Clinical Psychology Graduate Students". Psychology Learning & Teaching. 13 (3): 261–269. S2CID 147487820.
External links
- Grand Rounds at Children's Health
- Grand Rounds at Cincinnati Children's
- Grand rounds webcast from Dartmouth-Hitchock
- Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins
- Grand Rounds at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- Grand Rounds at Mayo Clinic
- Grand Rounds at the New York University Medical School
- Grand Rounds at the Seattle Children's Hospital
- Grand Rounds at Stanford
- Grand Rounds at University of Michigan Health System
- Grand Rounds at the University of Vermont School of Medicine
- UW Medicine , Dept. of Medicine – Grand Rounds
- Grand Rounds at Yale School of Medicine
- Grand rounds definition in Medterms