A medical education procedure, used especially in teaching hospitals, in which all aspects of a patient’s condition, management, and problems encountered are presented to faculty members, medical students, and health care workers. This provides an opportunity for all concerned to ask questions and provide comments on the patient’s diagnosis, care, and clinical program. The patient is usually, but not always, present during the conference. This method of teaching was begun in America by Sir William Osier at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.