Transitional Year Residency Program Grand Rounds

As the transitional medicine program is based in the department of medicine, the medicine grand rounds schedule is incorporated into the program. This session occurs on Tuesdays from noon to 1 p.m. from September through May. The topics vary depending on the scheduled subspecialty and include all medicine subspecialties as well as areas of ethics, hospitalist general internal medicine and visiting professor grand rounds.

Past topics have included:

• HIV opportunities lost and found
• Immunomodulation in pancreas cancer: the role of vaccines
• Your frontal lobes: what’s going on up there?
• Shocking insights: unveiling the mysteries of cardiogenic shock
• Resident-of-the-year presentation

In addition to outside speakers, Lehigh Valley Health Network departments often present updates in their specialty to the department of medicine staff regarding news and recent literature on pertinent topics. Other departments also provide grand rounds within their specialty, including surgery as the joint transitional medicine-sponsoring department.