About
About The Rounds
Impact
Two decades of educational programming since 2005.
Open, evidence-based pain and headache education measured in lectures delivered, institutions reached, and learners served across the world.
Countries represented
80+
Recorded lectures
250+
CE/CME credits awarded
3,460+
Speakers from outside MGB
70%
International attendees
37%
Contributing faculty
400+
Medically underserved communities
43% of our global audience comes from medically underserved communities
Patient-centered participation
15%+ of attendees bring lived experience of pain to the conversation
Small footprint
7,725 metric tons of CO₂e avoided each year by meeting virtually
Educational Reach
Live weekly lectures connect clinicians, trainees, researchers, and patients in more than eighty countries.
Institutional Collaboration
Programming is built through collaboration across Mass General Brigham, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and a growing network of academic and professional partners.
Global Participation
Recurring attendees from teaching hospitals, dental medicine programs, primary-care clinics, and patient advocacy organizations.
Open CE/CME
Free CE/CME helps extend access to high-quality pain and headache education across professions, including physicians, dentists, nurses, and psychologists.
Origins
From the Ether Dome.
The Rounds has grown alongside the field itself — expanding in scope, audience, and disciplinary reach while remaining grounded in rigorous, accessible education.
Gallery
Selected historical and archival images courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Countway Library / Harvard Medical School, Digital Commonwealth, the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Wikimedia Commons, and other public-domain or licensed sources.
Additional Image Credits:
Patrick J. Lynch, Head deep facial trigeminal, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.
Adam Lenhardt, MGH Ether Dome Theater 29Jan2008, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Daderot, Inside the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.