Pre-rounding in hospital medicine: a narrative review.

Pre-rounding in hospital medicine is the practice of having junior physicians in the medical team come to work early to pre-clerk new and existing patients in advance, in order to formulate preliminary management plans, draft rounding notes and prepare for ward round presentations when the attending consultant and senior members of the team arrive. While pre-rounding is part of a long-standing tradition in the United States hospital-based practice, its adoption has been highly heterogeneous across the world, due to controversy over its purported benefits in patient care and post-graduate training. In this article, we sought to review the relevant literature on pre-rounding in hospital medicine and examine its current role in postgraduate training and practice, specifically evaluating its clinical and pedagogical utility.

Pharmacological Enhancement of Regeneration-Dependent Regulatory T Cell Recruitment in Zebrafish.

Regenerative capacity varies greatly between species. Mammals are limited in their ability to regenerate damaged cells, tissues and organs compared to organisms with robust regenerative responses, such as zebrafish. The regeneration of zebrafish tissues including the heart, spinal cord and retina requires zebrafish regulatory T cells (zTregs).