Grand Rounds Recap 05.13.20
/Levy Cup WITH Drs. Gauger, Jarrell, Nagle, Owens, and Scanlon
The Levy Cup, our annual springtime academic tournament that pits residents against each other in a day of lighthearted competition returned this year, adapted for remote participation due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite months of preparation being upended by social distancing mandates, our resident and faculty planners pivoted seamlessly to deliver yet another exemplary installment of the event.
Dr. Scanlon spearheaded a particularly challenging edition of visual diagnosis. Drs. Gauger and Nagle officiated medical versions of Taboo and Pictionary, and Drs. Jarrell and Owens led us through Telephone, a game in which team members work through a case to diagnose, treat, and dispo an undifferentiated patient, but have an extra challenge of communicating critical information in serial handoffs with limited time.
In the Grand Finale, Drs. Jarrell and Owens played the role of medical providers aboard a recreational space flight set in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately for the “patients” aboard the ship, their medical crew and supplies left much to be desired, and so our two finalist teams acted as earth-based tele-consultants for the crew and pushed their creativity and adaptability to the max to walk the bungling space crew through a variety of patient encounters ranging from the benign to the critically ill.
Our winners this year, to be immortalized with their names engraved on the Levy Cup itself were:
Many thanks to the dedicated residents and faculty members who were instrumental to the planning and execution of the 2020 Levy Cup, with special recognition of their ingenuity, creativity, and refusal to allow even a pandemic break the tradition.
