Medical Editors’ Grand Rounds

Grand rounds.

Department Grand Rounds

Exploring Drivers of Medical Overuse Through Transformation of Grand Rounds Into "Right Care Rounds".

This challenge of medical overuse has been recognized by the Lown Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as by educators at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has given rise to a new educational conference format called ‘‘Right Care Rounds.’’ This conference uses the familiar format of a case presentation to explore and identify drivers of medical overuse and...

Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR18074) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Events a...

Hypertension Grand Rounds Gitelman Syndrome

Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal-recessive renal tubular disorder characterized by hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalciuria, metabolic alkalosis, secondary hyperreninemic aldosteronism, and low blood pressure.1–3 GS patients are usually diagnosed relatively late, because malaise, low blood pressure, hypokalemia, hypocalciuria, and hypomagnesemia are difficult to categorize clinically. I...