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Background
Preparing for and presenting Grand Rounds provides residents with excellent
training in the CanMEDS Scholar and Collaborator roles. In the Department of
Psychiatry, it has been an informal expectation that residents present Grand Rounds
once every academic year, however, there has been little direction about how to
operationalize this expectation and ensure that Grand Rounds presentations are
optimally used to teach and evaluate resident performance in this important
activity. The following policy aims to provide more direction to the Program and to
Site Coordinators regarding Grand Rounds.
1) Grand Rounds must be presented by each PGY‐2 to PGY‐5 resident in the
Department of Psychiatry once per academic year. Residents who cannot
present Grand Rounds due to extenuating circumstances must contact the
Program Director in order to be released from this responsibility. Usually a
physician’s letter will be required. In most cases, the resident must make up
for the missed Grand Rounds by presenting Grand Rounds twice during the
following academic year.
2) Residents must not duplicate Grand Rounds from year to year although they
are permitted to choose similar topics each year.
3) It is the responsibility of all Postgraduate Site Coordinators to ensure each
PGY‐2 to PGY‐5 resident present a Grand Rounds once per academic year.
Residents who wish to be released from presenting during the first 6‐month
block, must confirm to the Postgraduate Site Coordinator with
documentation that they are booked into the Grand Rounds schedule of their
next 6 month block. Residents must present Grand Rounds at the site where
they are doing their current core rotations or senior selective rotation.
4) Postgraduate Site Coordinators may sometimes allow residents to fulfill
Grand Rounds responsibility by presenting at large, multi‐disciplinary
rounds that are evaluated by the audience. Residents presenting in these
alternate venues may not be eligible for best Resident Grand Rounds Awards
for their site. This decision will be at the discretion of the local Postgraduate
Site Coordinator and Psychiatrist‐in‐Chief.
5) Postgraduate Site Coordinators should assist residents presenting Grand
Rounds by assigning mentors to help the resident choose an appropriate
topic and review the resident’s slides prior to the presentation. Residents are
strongly encouraged to work with a Grand Rounds mentor. Whether or not
the resident’s mentor is their primary supervisor, the primary supervisor
should attend the resident’s Grand Rounds presentation.
6) Residents Grand Rounds presentations must be forwarded by the
Postgraduate Site Coordinator/Education Assistant to the Postgraduate
Education Office for filing in the resident’s file as part of their Grand Rounds
portfolio. In addition, the summary sheet of the evaluation of the resident’s
Grand Rounds must also be forwarded to the Postgraduate Education Office
for filing in the resident’s file.