Student Schwartz Round Research Papers

• Samantha Jakimowicz & Jill Maben 14 September 2020 Higher Education

  “I can’t stop thinking about it”: Schwartz Rounds ® an intervention to support students and higher education staff with emotional, social and ethical experiences at work

  This article in the Journal of Clinical Nursing makes the case for offering Schwartz Rounds to students and higher education staff.

• Laura Golding & Vikki Grimbly University of Liverpool 21 March 2022 Evidence

  Running interprofessional Schwartz Rounds with healthcare students

  Running interprofessional Schwartz Rounds with healthcare students in the North of England: Building capacity and evaluating impact.

• R. Barker, J. Cornwell & F. Gishen 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  Introducing compassion into the education of health care professionals; can Schwartz Rounds help?

  This article in the Journal of Compassionate Health Care, considers the value of Schwartz Rounds as an initiative that can be used to enhance student well-being and ultimately enable students to treat each other, colleagues and patients with more compassion.

• David Gleeson, James Arwyn-Jones, Mariam Awan, Isabel White & Omid Halse 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  Medical Student Schwartz Rounds: A Powerful Medium for Medical Student Reflective Practice

  This article in the Advances in Medical Education and Practice, explored the utility of student-specific Schwartz Rounds as a medium for reflective practice amongst medical students entering their first year of clinical attachments, and how effective these are compared to standard organisation-wide Schwartz Rounds.

• Harry Abnett, Robert Tuckwell & Lucy Evans 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  Early introduction of the multi-disciplinary team through student Schwartz Rounds: a mixed methodology study

  This article in BMC Medical Education aims to compare medical student experience of a single-discipline and a multi-discipline SR using mixed methodology.

• Sarah Atkins, Alison Pilnick; Jill Maben; Laura Thompson 11 August 2023 Higher Education

  Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study

  This article in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine  discusses how the format of Schwarz Rounds creates important opportunities for interpersonal affiliation with implications for how these interactions can be best facilitated.

• Duncan Hamilton, Cath Taylor, Jill Maben 25 March 2024 Higher Education

  How Does a Group Reflection Intervention (Schwartz Rounds) Work within Healthcare Undergraduate Settings? A Realist Review

  This review in the Perspectives on Medical Education aims to understand what the available literature and key informant interviews can tell us about Rounds in this setting, asking what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why?

• J. Smith, M. G. Stewart, E. Foggin, S. Mathews, J. Harris, P. Thomas, A. Cooney & C. J. Stocker 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  Assessing the benefits and usefulness of Schwartz Centre rounds in second-year medical students using clinical educator-facilitated group work session: not just “a facilitated moan”!

  This article from BMC Medical Education aimed to investigate whether the guidance of SR in second year medical students provides the same benefits as to healthcare professionals.

• Claire Stocker, Andrew Cooney, Peter Thomas, Bharathy Kumaravel, Kenneth Langlands, Jasmine Hearn 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  Schwartz rounds in undergraduate medical education facilitates active reflection and individual identification of learning need

  This pilot study investigates whether Schwartz Rounds could be effective in developing students' reflective practice in Year 2 undergraduates.

• Dominique Clancy, Annie Mitchell & Cordet Smart 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  A qualitative exploration of the experiences of students attending interprofessional Schwartz Rounds in a University context

  This article in the Journal of Interprofessional Care aimed to develop understanding of how health-care students experience participation at Schwartz Rounds in a University context.

• Faye Gishen, Sophia Whitman, Deborah Gill, Rhiannon Barker, and Steven Walker. 22 September 2016 Higher Education

  Schwartz Centre Rounds: a new initiative in the undergraduate curriculum—what do medical students think?

  This paper asks whether the current Schwartz Centre Rounds (SCRs) model could be extrapolated into the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. Two pilots are run in a UK medical school and are then subsequently evaluated, yielding largely positive feedback.

• Sarah H.M. Wong*, Faye Gishen and Amali U. Lokugamage 13 July 2023 Higher Education

  ‘Decolonising the Medical Curriculum‘: Humanising medicine through epistemic pluralism, cultural safety and critical consciousness

  The article in the London Review of Education describes the pioneering efforts to decolonise the undergraduate medical curriculum at UCL Medical School (UCLMS), London, by a group of clinician educators and students, with the aim of training emerging doctors to treat diverse patient populations equitably and effectively.