Round and Round We Go: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Case Rounds

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

Room: Majestic A

Floor: Second Floor, Conference Plaza

The role of case rounds is well-established in clinical teaching. Case rounds facilitate both problem-solving and “just in time” learning allowing a cohort of students to learn from an actual practice dilemma. For externship clinicians, case rounds are necessarily more removed from the nitty gritty of case decisions and often take on a more process-oriented, reflective, approach. In this session, we will explore the benefits of focusing on process as opposed to case-specific topics and analogize this to reflective practice groups in other disciplines such as medicine and education. We aim to foster a greater comfort level in using case rounds as a tool for emotional processing, expanding their utility beyond client and legal matters. We will share a method and toolkit for facilitating these rounds and consider ways to adjust rounds to account for varying goals. While we approach this topic as externship clinicians teaching an externship seminar with students in multiple legal settings, this approach can also be applied to case rounds in the in-house clinic seminar.