Plan for meetings each Wednesday 10 meetings per quarter. Rather than simply presenting interesting cases for review, the idea with each case is to emphasize diagnostic or therapeutic dilemmas, to challenge one another for learning purposes, and to highlight areas of controversy. One student is assigned to each meeting date. The student is to select a case to present and is responsible for obtaining all relevant information. The presentation is to be organized as shown below, with audio and visual supplements used to aid the audience.
Patient confidentiality is to be maintained.
A copy of the presentation should be given to Dr. Kempster following the discussion. Please pick a case that involves a diagnostic or treatment dilemma . Remember that rounds is to offer an opportunity for discussing choices and decisions made by clinicians and involves problem-solving of some sort. Areas of controversy should be highlighted to facilitate a lively debate. Some professional differences of opinions are likely to occur in many of these cases.