Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you
The pandemic has wrought a lot of change, not least to doctors relationship to their careers. While still loving the patient interaction, we're increasingly hearing that doctors are disillusioned with the other aspects of medicine. If you're feeling that way, there are ways to structure your thinking to help you make sense of your career. In this podcast Claire Kaye, former portfolio GP and now coach, explains how she went about deciding medicine wasn't for her, and how she helps doctors go through that process too. You can find Claire at https://www.drclairekaye.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drclairekaye_executivecoach...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. This week, the team bring you updates on; Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospita l with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring. Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca v...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. This week, the team bring you updates on; Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring. Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not the actual workforce. One woman who's planning to change that is Roopa Dhatt, executive director of Woman in Global Health - a new grassroots organistion which is making waves with its demand for equality of representation for woman in global health decision making.In this interview, we talk to Dr Dhatt about the genesis of Woman in Global Health, and how they've managed to cement real commitment from the ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not the actual workforce. One woman who's planning to change that is Roopa Dhatt, executive director of Woman in Global Health - a new grassroots organistion which is making waves with its demand for equality of representation for woman in global health decision making. In this interview, we talk to Dr Dhatt about the genesis of Woman in Global Health, and how they've managed to cement real commitment from the...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - Humanising medicine
In medicine, a lot of work has been done to encourage person centred care - but can that maxim be extended to the people working within the healthcare system? Subodh Dave has just been elected as dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and joins us fresh from talking at the International conference on physician health to speak about his ambition to humanise medicine. In this podcast, Subodh, Abi and Cat discuss what lessons from the pandemic need t o remain, why at this time it's really important to look out for your colleague with family overseas, and how ice cream trucks meant much more than a cold treat.www.bmj.c...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - Humanising medicine
In medicine, a lot of work has been done to encourage person centred care - but can that maxim be extended to the people working within the healthcare system? Subodh Dave has just been elected as dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and joins us fresh from talking at the International conference on physician health to speak about his ambition to humanise medicine. In this podcast, Subodh, Abi and Cat discuss what lessons from the pandemic need to remain, why at this time it's really important to look out for your colleague with family overseas, and how ice cream trucks meant much more than a cold treat. www.bmj.c...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - After shielding
On this wellbeing podcast, Abi and Cat are joined by Emma Lishman, a clinical psychologist and part of the North Bristol NHS Trust's staff wellbeing team.Emma helps doctors return to training after a break - be that for maternity leave, or covid-19. Emma describes some of the fears that doctors who have been shielding have expressed coming back onto the ward, the ways in which teams may inadvertently make those worse, and the problems with complying with risk assessments in the face of staffing pressures. Wellbeing podcasts have focused a lo t on the importance of openness about mental health in the NHS, but in this pod...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Wellbeing - After shielding
On this wellbeing podcast, Abi and Cat are joined by Emma Lishman, a clinical psychologist and part of the North Bristol NHS Trust's staff wellbeing team.Emma helps doctors return to training after a break - be that for maternity leave, or covid-19. Emma describes some of the fears that doctors who have been shielding have expressed coming back onto the ward, the ways in which teams may inadvertently make those worse, and the problems with complying with risk assessments in the face of staffing pressures. Wellbeing podcasts have focused a lot on the importance of openness about mental health in the NHS, but in this podc...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound
Recorded on Tuesday 13th of April, as the shops open in the UK, and England is heading to the beer gardens. The roll out of the vaccination programme has completed its first phase, and second doses have been given to the most vulnerable people - and now the under 50s are starting to get their first doses. In this podcast, Duncan Jarvies, multimedia editor for The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, and Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire.The genomicc trial Matt mentions is still recruiting - if you're interest...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts