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Conferences

Morning Report:

This daily conference is a case conference held for all residents. Here, the Attending leads a discussion focusing on advanced patient evaluation skills and advanced clinical reasoning skills.

Professor's Rounds:

This weekly conference is led by a senior faculty member who selects interesting cases to present to the residents to illustrate advanced clinical reasoning and management skills.

Journal Club:

This monthly conference is developed to emphasize skillsnecessary to analyze and implement information conveyed in the medical journals. Critical articles are selected to illustrate core topics of evidence based medicine. Faculty members assist a resident in leading the discussion of the article and its contents.

Grand Rounds:

The Department of Neurology maintains weekly Grand Rounds.  Its purpose is to advance the understanding of neurology and its potential integration into the clinical practice by:

• Translating/transferring credible and relevant scientific findings and scholarly thought related to neurology into discussions that are compelling, and engages healthcare professionals involved in neurological practice, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, primary care physicians, other medical specialties, nurses, and other allied healthcare providers.
• Provide additional opportunities for the advancement of clinical acumen and scientific principles through live patient encounters.

Morbidity and Mortality Conference:

This monthly conference focuses on actual patient cases that illustrate factors that contribute to failures in therapy and emphasizes continual quality improvement within the resident service at Jefferson.

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