Student Schwartz Rounds

  • Originating in the USA, we have been running Schwartz Rounds at Surrey for our students since 2019​
  • They are now open to a wide range of students studying applied health programmes, including student nurses, midwives, paramedics, clinical psychologists, dieticians, doctors and veterinarians​
  • A safe, confidential space, where trained facilitators assist you to share and reflect on the emotional, social and ethical impact of your work​
  • Focus on the impact of work on attendees: not clinical detail or problem solving​
  • Last 1 hour, beginning with pre-prepared stories shared by staff or students on a chosen theme. The space is then opened out to the audience to share their stories, thoughts and reflections​
  • No expectation to speak: silent reflection is welcome​
  • Rounds run monthly during term-time, mostly online over Zoom, with one in-person Round per term

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Upcoming Rounds

  • Wednesday 14th October 2026 16:45-18:00 – online via Zoom. Theme TBC and booking link coming soon!

If you would like to find out more about joining our Steering Group as a Schwartz Student Rep, please email Tami, we would love to hear from you!

Film 1: University Schwartz Rounds: supporting students

A short animation introducing Schwartz Rounds in a University setting, explaining what Schwartz Rounds are and how students may benefit
from attending.
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Film 2: University Schwartz Rounds: supporting new staff

A short animation introducing Schwartz Rounds in a University setting, explaining what Schwartz Round are and how Newly Qualified staff and Internationally Qualified staff who are new to the UK, may benefit from attending.
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Publications

Hamilton D, Taylor C, Maben J. (2023) How Does a Group Reflection Intervention (Schwartz Rounds) Work within Healthcare Undergraduate Settings? A Realist Review. Perspectives on Medical Education. 2023; 12(1): 550–564. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.930

Atkins, S.; Pilnick, A.; Maben, J.; Thompson, L. (2023) Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: a conversation analytic study Social Science & Medicine. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623004689

Maben J. Taylor, C. Reynolds, E. McCarthy, I. Leamy M. (2021) Realist evaluation of Schwartz rounds® for enhancing the delivery of compassionate healthcare: understanding how they work, for whom, and in what contexts. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 709 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06483-4

Dawson J, McCarthy I. Taylor, C. Hildenbrand K, Leamy M. Reynolds, E Maben J. (2021) Effectiveness of a group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of healthcare staff: a pre-post quasi-experimental evaluation. BMC Health Services Research 21 (1); 293 https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-06413-4

Maben J. and Taylor, C. (2021) “Schwartz Center Rounds: an intervention to enhance staff well-being and promote organisational change”. Book chapter in “The Triple Challenge: Connecting Health care worker well-being, patient safety and organisational change”. Springer Nature

McCarthy, I. Taylor, C. Reynolds, E. Leamy M. Maben J. (2020) ‘We needed to talk about it’: The experience of sharing the emotional impact of healthcare work as a panellist in Schwartz Center Rounds in the UK. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 0(0) 1-8. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1355819620925512

Jakimowicz, S. and Maben J. (editorial) (2020) 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. Editorial. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.15354

Leamy M, Reynolds, E. Robert, G. Taylor, C. Maben J. (2019) The origins and implementation of an intervention to support healthcare staff to deliver compassionate care: exploring fidelity and adaptation in the transfer of Schwartz Center Rounds from the United states to the United Kingdom. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Jul 8;19(1):457. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4311-y https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31286958/

Maben J. Taylor, C. Dawson, J. Leamy, M. McCarthy, I. Reynolds, E. Ross, S. Shuldham, C. Bennett, L. Foot, C. (2018) A Realist informed mixed methods evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds in England. Final NIHR HS&DR Report.  https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr06370#/abstract

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