Grand Rounds

[glorytaker]

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I just wanted to know what's grand rounds like at your teaching hopsital? It is just once a week, takes the entire morning, etc? Do the interns or students take turns presenting patients, then you all go see them? I guess, basically, can someone tell me what grand rounds are like? Also journal club, tumor review, all the other stuff involved with residency...

 

[Diane L. Evans]

I would suggest you sit in on a residency program grand rounds to gain an understanding

At our institution for Ob/Gyn residents:
mfm=maternal fetal medicine (high risk ob)
urogyn (urogynecology)
REI (repoductive and infertility medicine)

We have grand rounds once a week and daily report 1 hr long every day.

Grand rounds consists of 3-4 lectures from different diciplines ie urogyn, mfm, gyn. Bi monthly this format changes several journals articles with assigned questions to answer before the lecture also bimonthly we have m&m conferences which overview bad outcome cases and review the supporting literature. The bimonthly lectures are resident run with faculty input. Grand rounds invite away speakers to give topics of new research and interests.

Daily report involves discussing complicated or unique cases encountered in the shift and is resident run. Walking rounds occur in the subspecilties such as mfm, urogyn, and gyn onc in addition to daily report.

In addition to this our evening signouts use the 1 minute preceptor format to teach and enforce a clinical pearl and in addition we do one oral board scenerio a day which will help those of us graduating prepare.

I hope this helps

Also monthly we have journal club for REI

 

[Blade28]

Grand Rounds is usually an hour-long lecture by an attending, chief resident or visiting professor/attending. Held once a week. Every department has their own.

 

[pikachu]

Grand Rounds = Grand Nap

At my program it is in a huge, warm, dark auditorium. For an intern this is like the womb. You can't help but curl up in the chair and sleep (surprisingly, this is actually more comfortable than the call rooms at the VA). I've actually woken up in the middle of Grand rounds and wondered why there is a big screen power point presentation going on in my bedroom.


Of course another major characteristic of my program is that all the attendings and chief residents have an acquired, and apparently contagious, condition where their vocal cords become paralyzed if they have to speak without the powerpoint crutch in the background. So all Grand Rounds have to take place in the dark.

GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!