The Morning-Report Syndrome and Medical Search

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  • LDLeslie J. DeGroot
    Leslie J. DeGroot
  • MSMark Siegler
    Mark Siegler
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Abstract
In many teaching hospitals around the country, the medical resident's morning report, presented to the department chairman or to his delegate, is the intellectual highlight of the day. Work rounds have been completed, the problems of patients have been assessed, and while interns and students scurry about performing procedures and gathering data, the residents retire to a seminar room to sip coffee, eat doughnuts, and engage in graduate clinical education. Some of the rituals of the morning report are well established: new or problem cases are reviewed, a faculty member or the chief resident presides, and points are awarded for . . .

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