Grand rounds
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Grand rounds are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education
Medical education
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 and inpatient care, consisting of presenting the medical problems and treatment of a particular patient to an audience consisting of doctors, residents, and medical students. Traditionally, the patient was present for the presentation and would answer questions; grand rounds has evolved considerably over the years, with most current sessions rarely having a patient present and being more like lectures. In some instances, an actor portrays the patient.

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 Grand Rounds (usually
weekly). Attending Grand Rounds is also an important supplement to medical school
and on-the-job resident training. (Grand rounds can also be destinguished from
rounds which is the (typically) daily visit by the attending and team to
all that attending's patients on the ward. Rounding with an attending is an important
part of practical medical on-the-job training/education, but it's primary focus is immediate
care for the patients on the ward. Grand rounds tends to present the bigger picture,
including experience with patients over many years, and the newest research and/or
treatments in an area. Grand rounds tend to be open to the entire medical professional
community, whereas rounds are specific to individual attendings and their current
teams).

Recent innovation : Video Grand Round Archives

Many of the higher quality more innovative major teaching and research hospitals
have started providing streaming video of their Grand rounds presentations
for free over the internet. This is a wonderful opportunity for medical professionals
and students to improve their knowledge, and builds on one of the core values of
the Hippocratic Oath
Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine ethically. It is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of western medicine, or by one of his students. The oath is written in...

- that medical education should be provided for free,
and that doctors should actively and openly share their knowledge without compensation
in order to improve patient care.

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.

Links to Free Grand Rounds Video Streaming Archives by Specialty

(If you find a working link to free Grand Rounds video streaming archives,
please ADD them here.)

Internal Medicine (aka. Medical Grand Rounds)

Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.org/grand-rounds/

NYU http://medicine.med.nyu.edu/education/medicine-grand-rounds-video-archive

UNC http://medicine.med.unc.edu/whatsnew/grand-rounds-video

Neurology

UCSD Neurology/Neurosciences Grand Rounds http://neurosciences.ucsd.edu/2pagevid.php

OHSU Neurology Grand Rounds
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/clinical-departments/neurology/news/grand-rounds-video.cfm

Oncology

Yale Cancer Center
http://medicine.yale.edu/cancer/research/education/grand-rounds/index.aspx

MSKCC : (Unfortunately, only a small subset of some Grand rounds presentations
by cancer type as CME) (Hopefully they will provide a more complete archive)

Breast Cancer
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1195

Colorectal Cancer
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1194

Lung Cancer
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1189

Melanoma
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1187

Leukemia
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1190

Lymphoma
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1188

Gynecological Cancers
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1192

Head and Neck Cancers
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1191

Prostate/Renal/Urological
http://www.mskcc.org/education/cme/videos-healthcare-professionals?tid=1186

Space Medicine

U. Texas / Johnson Space Center (NASA)
http://www.dsls.usra.edu/education/grandrounds/archive/2011/

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