Grand Rounds
For those of you who do not know, medicine has an academic side. All teaching hospitals, and some non-teaching hospitals, will have Grand Rounds in their specialties once a week or so. This ritual is suspended during the summer, but we are now well back into the academic year again. I get a weekly email about the grand rounds offerings coming up, most of which do not relate to my specialty, which is internal medicine. Let's have a look at what's offered this week:
A Novel Way to Catch Up on Your Sleep
Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Sponsors
Rheumatology Grand Rounds
"A Novel Holistic Explanation for the Fibromyalgia Enigma: Dysautonomia"
The Total Downer Lecture
"DEFINING DEATH: NEGOTIATING
THE TWILIGHT ZONE"
Guest Speaker
Xxx Xxxxx, MD
Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics
Oooh, Trendy. But Relevant
Department of Psychiatry
Sponsors
PSYCHIATRY GRAND ROUNDS
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Post 9-11 Update and Review of Current Research and Treatment"
Nothing Wrong with This Except That I've Heard It a Thousand Times
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Sponsors
Combined Renal/Endocrinology
Grand Rounds
"Diabetes and Hypertension"
Guaranteed to Cause Controversy!
DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Sponsors:
OB/GYN GRAND ROUNDS
"Childbirth And Incontinence - Is the Cesarean Section Rate Too Low?"
(In case you're wondering, the answer is probably yes. My father, who delivered a few babies in his time, has been heard to voice the opinion that
all women should have C-sections. But he never says this in public. He knows he'd be pilloried.)
I Have No Idea What This Has To Do With Anything
Department of Pediatrics
Sponsors
Pediatric Grand Rounds
PEDIATRIC PRACTICE IN A POST - 9/11 WORLD
This Must Be One of Those Federally Mandated Topics
MEDICINE/SURGERY GRAND ROUNDS
"Physician Order Entry Systems
in the
Patient Safety Environment"
And there you have it.
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