Sakditad Saowapa, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at University of Iowa, shared on LinkedIn:
“An Oncologist’s Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last
By David H. Johnson, (JCO OP, Aug 2025)
Here are 7 surefire ways to make sure you’re never invited back:
- Microscopic Mayhem – Start with an endless deep dive into tumor histology + molecular markers. Bonus if 90% of the room has no idea what you’re talking about.
- TNM Torture – Review every tiny change in staging systems. Use the smallest font chart possible. Guaranteed seat-shifting boredom.
- MOA Overload – Describe every drug’s mechanism of action in detail – especially if irrelevant to your audience. Extra points for slack-jawed stares.
- Dosage Deadlock – Spend 10 minutes on dose escalation strategies only oncologists care about. Internists will cry inside.
- Criteria Catatonia – Dive deep into RECIST or obscure imaging criteria. Perfect way to turn burritos into projectiles.
- Kaplan-Meier Killer – Show 10 hard-to-read survival curves from negative trials. The room will collapse into collective despair.
- Lymph Node Lobotomy – Close with exhaustive surgical detail—precise node counts and obscure dissections. Stupor guaranteed.
Lesson: The inverse of these 7 rules = how to deliver a brilliant Grand Rounds.
- Know your audience
- Stay clinically relevant
- Make complexity accessible
Great talks don’t show how much you know – They ensure the audience leaves knowing something they didn’t before.”
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