# Flipped Biomedical Grand Rounds: Creating a Clinical Immersion Classroom

> **NIH NIH R25** · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · 2020 · $21,600

## Abstract

The goal of this NIH R25 proposal “Flipped Biomedical Grand Rounds: Creating a Clinical
Immersion Classroom” is to bring the pivotal educational experience of clinical immersion to our
entire Senior Class of undergraduate Biomedical Engineers, and to integrate this experience
into a diverse undergraduate biomedical design curriculum. Because of increased hospital
security concerns, and the large numbers of current and planned undergraduate biomedical
engineering students, direct personal observations of actual clinical procedures are both
impractical and inappropriate.
This “Flipped Biomedical Grand Rounds” proposal describes a novel alternative teaching
approach that will bring senior clinicians from various clinical specialties to the engineering
campus to present and conduct formal, simulated Grand Rounds cases that feature both
successes and failures of biomedical technologies. This new approach and course will
complement and integrate with the existing BME undergraduate curriculum. A second
component of the proposed design will enrich and enhance the established Senior Design
experience, promote diverse team creation and dynamics, and build on the Clinical Needs
Finding focus of the first course. Together, these experiences will better prepare our graduating
BME students for their graduate work, their entry into the private sector, or their participation in
the non-profit and global health sectors.
The PI/PD has been directing the BME Professional Masters Program for five years, including
an extensive clinical immersion experience, and has developed a collaborative network of
participating senior clinicians from diverse clinical specialties at the Boston Medical Center. In
this proposal, the Co-Investigators include the senior members of the BME faculty responsible
for the undergraduate BME curriculum and the Senior Design Capstone Program to facilitate the
integration of these new courses into the existing curriculum. The Chief of Cardiac Surgery at
the BMC, will also serve as Co-Investigator to help design the format for the Biomedical Grand
Rounds, invite senior members of the clinical community to participate, and assist in selecting
cases that illustrate relevant aspects of biomedical technology.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9934197
- **Project number:** 5R25EB025788-03
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS)
- **Principal Investigator:** CATHERINE M. KLAPPERICH
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $21,600
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-06-04 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9934197

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9934197, Flipped Biomedical Grand Rounds: Creating a Clinical Immersion Classroom (5R25EB025788-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9934197. Licensed CC0.

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