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In S7 E3 is a full circle moment for me as I get to welcome Dr Andrew Davies to the show. Andrew is my podcast mentor and has been instrumental in helping me get started and as an ongoing source of support and wise council. I could not think of a better guest given this season's theme of communication in medicine.
Andrew has been an intensive care medicine specialist for over three decades. He experienced a period of severe depletion and burnout mid-life, mid-career at a time of overcommitment to his research career. He describes the personal and professional growth that followed and now recounts this as an experience that reshaped his entire approach to medicine and life. Today he works at Peninsula University Hospital, where he is passionate about delivering compassionate, human-centred intensive care while actively supporting the wellbeing and development of fellow clinicians. Andrew hosts his own very successful podcast, Mastering Intensive Care which recently reached 100 episodes. Here he faciliates deeply reflective conversations with his colleagues in critical care. It's a fantastic series and I heave learned a lot from Andrew and his guests to date.
In this episode, we talk about:
• Listening as a skill and why it matters as much in medicine as anywhere else.
• Our own experiences of mid-career and mid-life burnout, and re-learning how we approach self-care and regulation as an intentional practice and ever evolving skillset.
• The core pillars of wellbeing -movement, food, sleep, stress regulation and connection. Mindfulness as a muscle and the skill of making and protecting space for what matters.
• Individual versus systemic approaches to wellbeing in healthcare, and why both matter.
• Running, ultra endurance feats and what these teach us about community, connection, and capacity for joy.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
Links:
Andrew's podcast, Mastering Intensive Care: https://masteringintensivecare.libsyn.com
Upcoming Community Events:
Dr Dominique Lee — Book Launch, hosted by Dr Cheryl Martin. Melbourne, 15 August 2026, 3pm, Langham Hotel. https://events.humanitix.com/what-s-been-broken-is-all-the-more-sharp-or-book-tour-in-melbourne
CCIM Conference — Gold Coast, QT, 4–5 September 2026. https://events.humanitix.com/ccim2026
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
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S7 E2 Some conversations on this podcast carry more weight than others. This is one of them.
Dr Yoo Young (Dominique) Lee is a radiation oncologist, educator, researcher, and the author of What's Been Broken Is All the More Sharp, a memoir that breaks a decade of silence about sexual assault within the medical profession, and examines what survivorship can look like inside a system that still struggles to acknowledge the harm it permits.
When Dominique reached out to come on the podcast in the lead-up to her book's release it was an unequivocal yes from me. What followed was a conversation that took a deeply human direction.
This is not a story of personal triumph. It is, as Dominique herself frames it, a relocation of shame from those who have been wrongly carrying it, onto the people and systems that should have been carrying it all along. It is also a love letter to the colleagues and friends who held her, and a call to every listener to consider whether they can be that person for someone else.
Among the threads we explore:
- The arc from a decade of silence to a tweet, a Guardian interview, and now a book and an active campaign for independent reporting of workplace misconduct in medicine
- Dominique's team of avengers and empathy warriors, the people she credits with her being alive today, and what their actions tell us about what it means to be an upstander and critical supporter.
- The culture of medicine more broadly and how we measure a "good" clinician
- Her presentation and advocacy work on how the system fails victims of abuse in medicine
- The work of HeyBoss! her physician wellbeing initiative, dedicated to helping doctors thrive through connection, purpose, and personal growth
- Why so few survivors of medical mistreatment remain, and what the profession owes those who did not stay
- The mission to support the people in medicine who feel like misfits. Something I now consider closer to the norm than the exception.
This is a conversation about what medicine has refused to address. It is, also, a conversation about the people who refused to look away. Thank you Dominique for reminding me why this podcast exists.
Content note
This episode discusses sexual assault, harassment and abuse in medicine, and suicide. Please take care of yourself as you listen. If you need to step away, the conversation will be here when you're ready.
Resources
If you need support right now
- Australia · 1800RESPECT · 1800 737 732 · 24/7 — https://www.1800respect.org.au
- UK · Rape Crisis England & Wales · 0808 500 2222 — https://rapecrisis.org.uk
- USA · RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline · 1-800-656-4673 — https://www.rainn.org
- New Zealand · Safe to Talk · 0800 044 334 — https://safetotalk.nz
- Canada · Ending Violence Association of Canada — https://endingviolencecanada.org
If you're a doctor seeking confidential support
- Australia · Drs4Drs — https://www.drs4drs.com.au - call 1300-374-377 for assistance
- USA · Physician Support Line · 1-888-409-0141 — https://www.physiciansupportline.com
- UK · Doctors in Distress — https://doctors-in-distress.org.uk
Dominique's work
- Dr Dominique Lee · website — https://drdominiquelee.com/
- HeyBoss! — https://heyboss.org/
- What's Been Broken Is All the More Sharp · Simon & Schuster Australia — https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Whats-Been-Broken-Is-All-the-More-Sharp/Dominique-(Yoo-Young)-Lee/9781764372336
Further reading on culture and safety in medicine
- Sexual Harassment Between Doctors: Healing Medical Cultures Around the World · edited by Prof Louise Stone (Cambridge University Press) · with foreword by Dr Dominique Lee — https://www.cambridge.org/au/universitypress/subjects/law/medico-legal-bioethics-and-health-law/sexual-harassment-between-doctors-healing-medical-cultures-around-world?format=PB&isbn=9781009673068
- SafeDr · Prof Leanne Rowe · empowering doctors to uphold human rights in healthcare under WHS laws — https://safedr.org
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
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Welcome to Season 7 Episode 1 in conversation with Professor Tait Shanafelt, Chief Wellness Officer, Associate Dean, and the Jeanie & Stewart Ritchie Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford WellMD & WellPhD Center.
Across more than two decades and several hundred peer-reviewed papers, Tait’s work has fundamentally reshaped how medicine understands itself, shifting the conversation from “fix the doctor” to “fix the system.” His papers have been referenced in more episodes of this podcast, and more generally, than any other voice in the field.
We begin with the conceptual shift that transitioned physician wellbeing from a personal and individual problem to an organisational responsibility referencing 2017 Nine Organizational Strategies paper. Post-pandemic The Wellbeing 2.0 paper reflected on where we have been, where we are and where we are headed.
With this frame in mind we discuss the update in research, thinking and practice through the published 2025 Ten Principles to Advance Occupational Well-being paper, This article provides an organisation-facing guidebook for leaders that concentrates decades of evidence into ten foundational principles. There is a deliberate language shift from physician wellbeing to occupational wellbeing across the whole healthcare workforce. We zoom in from the strategic-systems lens to the practical work of unit-level leadership, evidence-informed tactics, and the day-to-day realities of work-life integration.
We close on the five-part Career Life Cycle series, published this year, that charts the influences on wellbeing across the arc of a career, from residency and fellowship through early, mid, and late career into retirement. There are unique challenges at each stage but across the whole arc, the fundamental drivers of wellbeing are similar: autonomy, meaning, community, connection.
Along the way, we discuss the iteration and evolution of the Chief Wellness Officer and Wellbeing Director courses out of Stanford WellMD pathways into this work that have shaped and continue to advance a generation of leaders globally.
References
The 2025 paper at the centre of the conversation
Shanafelt T, Trockel M, Stolz S, Murphy D, Bohman B. Ten Principles to Advance Occupational Well-being in Health Care Organizations. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(6):995–1004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.03.026
Landmark papers
Shanafelt TD, Noseworthy JH. Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2017;92(1):129–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.10.004
Shanafelt TD. Physician Well-being 2.0: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2021;96(10):2682–2693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.06.005
The five-part Career Life Cycle series (2025–2026)
Thomas LR, Brigham T, Shanafelt T. Residency and Fellowship: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(9):1649–1659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.024
Rotenstein L, Harry E, Shanafelt T. The Early Career Phase: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle.Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(10):1836–1845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.025
Ligibel JA, Awad K, Shanafelt T. Mid-Career: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(11):2007–2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.026
Frey K, Arata M, Shanafelt T. Late Career: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(12):2255–2261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.028
Brower KJ, Litt IF, Shanafelt TD. Retirement: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2026;101(1):179–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.027
Stanford WellMD course and education information discussed in the episode
• Stanford WellMD & WellPhD Center — https://wellmd.stanford.edu
• Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course —https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/cwo-course.html
• Stanford Wellbeing Director Course — https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/directorcourse.html
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
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After a deliberate pause it's great to be back with Season 7. This trailer episode introduces and sets the scene for the season and what you can expect. Thanks for listening.
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
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In season 6 Episode 6 I am delighted to welcome Graham Walker, MD to the podcast. Dr Walker is an emergency physician by clinical background who practices in San Francisco, completing his medical school training at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also majored in social policy as an undergraduate and has had a life long interest in software development and digital technology. Today he combines these interests and skills in his clinical and non-clinical roles.
Graham is the co-director of Advanced Development at The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), which delivers care for Kaiser Permanente’s 4.6 million members in Northern California. At TPMG, Graham works on practical AI development, commercialization, partnerships, and technology transformation under the Chief Innovation Officer. As a clinical informaticist, he also leads emergency and urgent care strategy for KP’s electronic medical record.
With an appetite and aptitude for tech innovation and entrepreneurship Dr Walker created and founded MDCalc as a resident, a free online clinical decision support tool many clinicians including myself have been using for years now, indeed MDCalc turned 20 this month.
More recently Graham co-founded the platform and community Offcall with a mission to bring joy back to medicine and facilitate contract transparency and financial literacy for US medical practitioners.
These two online resources are dedicated to helping physicians globally. In his free time Graham writes about the intersection of AI, technology, and medicine, and created The Physicians’ Charter for Responsible AI, a practical guide to implementing safe, accurate, and fair AI in healthcare settings.
In this conversation I have an opportunity to explore Dr Walkers perspective at the intersection of AI, technology and medicine and revisit some emerging themes from season 6 in relation to leading change and innovation in complex, siloed healthcare systems. We discuss the challenges of communicating change efforts in this context and Graham shares his practical pearls for elevating clinical voices and translating information across disparate stakeholder groups.
With a unique leadership role in his own organisation in this space I was keen to explore his perspectives on creating opportunities for intrapreneurship. Dr Walker is a globally respective clinical voice on AI in healthcare and we discuss the perils and promise of AI , the Physician Charter for responsible use of AI in medicine and his Offcall survey and pending report on physicians views on the technology application and implementation in medicine ( now published and linked below)
Finally it is Graham's mission to bring joy and humanity back to medicine and to use technology responsibly to augment the clinician experience and skillset enabling safer and higher quality care that is the major draw for me. Thank you Dr Walker for you work which has global relevance and reach.
Links / References:
https://drgrahamwalker.com
https://www.offcall.com
https://www.offcall.com/learn/podcast
https://physicianscharter.ai
https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com
https://www.mdcalc.com
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
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I'm delighted to be back with S6 E9 and to welcome Associate Professor Vikram Palit to the podcast. Vikram is a Paediatric Respiratory Physician by clinical background and a Senior Lecturer in Health Systems science. He has held senior leadership roles across academia, clinical medicine and health services in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is also the founder and CEO of ConsultMed https://www.consultmed.co/about-us/ Consultmed brings together his passion for healthcare and embracing technology to deliver better outcomes for his patients. When he is not in a team huddle, a design workshop or doing a solution demo, you can find him quietly unplugging fax machines in hospitals and clinics near you. Indeed in this episode he makes a compelling case to #axethefax.
In this conversation I have an opportunity to dive deeper into Vik's journey so far as clinician, health systems scientist and entrepreneur trying to solve real world clinical problems with modern technology solutions.
He discusses his previous academic studies and practical on the job exposure to health systems change, value-based care and digital health in the UK NHS and how this served as a catalyst for his founder story.
We learn more about the nuts and bolts of Consultmed including the core offering Advice and Guidance and how this can positively impact the healthcare referral landscape. We reference the recent Grattan Report on specialist referrals and the RACGP Heath of the Nation Report 2025.
Vik discusses the application and potential of embedding AI tools in the Consultmed platform and where he sees the future opportunities of the technology. We revisit past podcast themes of the challenges of clinical entrepreneurship and "intra"preneurship and his insights as a CEO and founder in this space. His passion, energy and mission-driven dedication to his work and team permeates this entire conversation and I look forward to following the next chapter of the Consultmed story. Thank you Vik!
Links References:
https://www.consultmed.co/about-us/
https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Grattan-Institute-Special-Treatment.pdf
https://www.racgp.org.au/FSDEDEV/media/documents/Health-of-the-Nation-2025.pdf
Vik's book/ article recommendations:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/implementing-value-based-healthcare/
https://hbr.org/2013/10/the-strategy-that-will-fix-health-care
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S6 E8 I am delighted to welcome Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel to the podcast. Dr Patel is a senior paediatric surgeon at The Queensland Children's hospital with over two decades of experience in paediatric and neonatal, colorectal and urological surgery. He is the Queensland State-wide Clinical Lead for Surgical Quality Improvement through his appointment at Clinical Excellence Queensland. As an Associate Professor he teaches students at several medical schools, and provides state-wide education to nursing staff and other medical professionals. He trains future surgeons, and his research spans across a number of fields. Bhavesh also has interests in digital health, technology, health literacy and human factors in health care.
In this conversation I have the opportunity to learn more about his work and the different hats Bhavesh now wears in his clinical, executive and educator roles. We discuss the evolution of his work in quality and safety and the systems thinking lens he applies to complex problem solving in healthcare. Bhavesh share his personal and professional journey and development and the impact of coaching on his ability to harness his ideas and efforts, gaining confidence and focus in recent years.
I was particular keen to explore his creative approach to digital innovation in patient communication including infographics and his recent work in building an experimental AI avatar.
We do well to cover a lot of ground here but I still left this conversation feeling I had peeled only a few layers of the onion, and the brilliant, curious mind of this creative clinician. There will have to be an encore!
Finally Bhavesh gives a taster for his keynote presentation at the 2025 Creative Careers in Medicine conference and listeners who missed the conference will be able to access the recordings when released ( details below).
Links / references:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbhaveshpatel/
https://www.instagram.com/handofasurgeon/?hl=en
CCIM conference - recording link with be listed when available:
https://ccim2025.my.canva.site/
Bhavesh's book recommendations:
If Disney Ran Your Hospital Fred Lee
https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/business/the-almanack-of-naval-ravikant/
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S6 E 7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Max Mollenkopf to the podcast. Max is a General Practitioner and practice owner based in NSW, Australia. He has worked in a variety of acute, subacute and governance roles in both public and private systems across Australia and New Zealand and has a deep understanding of the interfaces of healthcare, health administration and provision of health services.
As a practising GP, Max enjoys providing quality and collaborative healthcare for his local community while also fostering long term relationships with the families he care for.
We cover a lot in this conversation with a focus on primary care, the evolving role of the GP and what patient and consumer centric care could mean now and in the future. Key themes of innovation and entrepreneurship, mission and meaning in medicine and building systems which offer value for patients and consumers and for their doctors allowing them to work at top of skill and scope and maintain longevity of practice.
Max, like many clinical change-makers who have guested on this podcast, is a deep and innovative thinker not afraid to challenge the status quo and ask the hard questions. His commitment to healthcare improvement and passion for providing quality care is clearly evident and permeates this entire conversation. Thank you Dr Max.
Links/references
Dr Max Mollenkopf
https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-mollenkopf-858a94209/
https://www.drmaxm.com/about
Context references
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/10-year-health-plan-for-england-fit-for-the-future/fit-for-the-future-10-year-health-plan-for-england-executive-summary
https://www.wesfarmershealth.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Wesfarmers-Health-Telehealth-Code-of-Practice.pdf
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Interrupting the program as usual to bring you this short teaser episode about an upcoming conference I am very excited about, The Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2025. This year's conference is taking place August 23rd and 24th in Melbourne.
In this conversation I chat with CCIM founder Dr Amandeep Hansra about the event. Regular listeners will recall Dr Hansra first guested on the podcast back in 2021 and Season 2. At that time the CCIM community had 16 K members, today that number has ballooned to 25 K and growing.
The theme of this years conference is "Let's Create". Hear about what you can expect and why you should attend. As Amandeep discusses opportunity to explore meaning and purpose in your career in medicine and connect with a truly diverse group of colleagues are some of the key benefits of the CCIM conference.
Listen to my S2 episode with Dr Hansra and hear more about the background story:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000523922495
Find out more about this conference program and speaker line up:
https://ccim2025.my.canva.site
Register for the conference:
https://events.humanitix.com/ccim-conference-2025-let-s-create
I hope to meet and connect with many of you in August!
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S6 E5 I am delighted to welcome Dr Colin West MD PhD to the podcast. Dr West is a practising physician, educator, biostatistician and he is globally renowned for his research in professional and organisational wellbeing in healthcare. He has been deeply embedded in research work in this area with colleagues at Mayo Clinic for over two decades to advance and inform healthcare organisational and clinician wellbeing leadership, strategy and evidence-informed system and work unit interventions to promote physician wellbeing and reduce distress. Dr West is the inaugural program director for physician wellbeing at Mayo Clinic. He is the recipient of multiple awards for his research and education work and collaborates extensively with scientists and groups within and outside Mayo Clinic. External collaborations include members of leadership in the American Medical Association. His work with colleagues including Dr Tait Shanafelt has been published in multiple top-tier journals, including the Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine. In this conversation we discuss the evolution of his work over the past two decades. We learn how the combination of unique skills, intellectual curiosity and a deep investment and sense of purpose led to a critical coalition of colleagues who have helped to advance and build evidence-informed road maps and organisational blueprints to promote physician wellbeing and professional satisfaction and reduce burnout and distress. I was particularly keen to explore some of the key intervention studies including the COMPASS trail ( Colleagues Meeting to Promote and Sustain Satisfaction) and the research about leadership capability and coaching/development. This episode is full of both the science and practical wisdom Dr West brings as a clinical expert in this field and yet still scratches the surface of his work. A lot of his efforts today centre on attention to the MVPs ( meaning values and purpose )of professional wellbeing for his colleagues and the work they do in turn for their patients. He finishes with a powerful call to action at this juncture and critical inflection point for healthcare and clinicians globally. This is fundamentally important work and I am grateful to Colin and colleagues for continuing to advance our knowledge and applied practice.
Links/References/Resources
Dr West's Wellbeing Wednesday Thread https://www.linkedin.com/posts/colin-west-57821b82_colin-west-colinwestmdphd-on-x-activity-7252370843236749312-1WMg/
https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/west-colin-p-m-d-ph-d/bio-00027800https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/pages/professional-well-being
The COMPASS Trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34366134/
Register for the Australasian Doctors' Health conference to continue to the conversation in 2025:https://adhc.org.au/
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In a special cross over episode the Mind Full Medic podcast is delighted to bring you this episode of the Heartline: Changemaking in Healthcare podcast with Dr Andrea Austin. I have the opportunity to flip the mic on Dr Austin, Emergency Physician and FACEP based in San Diego California, educator, simulationist, podcast host and well known to regular listeners as favourite "Frentor" of the Mind Full Medic.
In this conversation we explore the fascinating world of changemaking in healthcare. As we delve into the findings of Andrea's recent research, we uncover the essential ingredients that enable healthcare professionals to become effective agents of positive transformation. Andrea sheds light on the delicate balance between individual agency and organisational support, highlighting how these elements intertwine to create an environment where meaningful change can flourish. We discuss the challenges faced by changemakers in healthcare and the strategies they employ to overcome them.
Key insights from our discussion include:
- The importance of insatiable learning and personal growth in driving change
- How changemakers navigate the complex emotional landscape of leading transformation
- The critical role of communication and listening in building coalitions for change
- Organizational strategies that foster and support changemaking efforts
Discover how to:
- Sustain inspiration and motivation throughout the change process
- Develop the courage and resilience needed to face setbacks and opposition
- Leverage organizational support to amplify your impact as a changemaker
- Build and nurture the relationships crucial for successful change initiatives
This episode offers invaluable insights for healthcare professionals at all levels who aspire to make a difference in their organizations and beyond. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting your journey in healthcare, you’ll find practical strategies and inspiration to fuel your changemaking efforts.
“Changemaking is a really big part of that pathway to keeping passionate professionals engaged in healthcare.” – Dr. Andrea Austin
Join us for this thought-provoking conversation that challenges conventional thinking about change in healthcare and inspires a new generation of changemakers. Learn how small acts of courage and strategic thinking can lead to significant positive transformations in our healthcare systems.
Link to the paper discussed in this episode https://www.cureus.com/articles/351909-developing-the-next-generation-of-physician-changemakers-you-have-to-love-the-people-and-love-the-process#!/
Connect with Dr. Andrea Austin:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-austin-simgal/Twitter
- https://www.instagram.com/andreaaustinmd/?hl=en
https://podcasts.appl
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Season 6 Episode 3 returns with a Special Sponsor episode to align with The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT's May appeal. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to sit down with GP, writer and author Dr Sonia Henry.Dr Henry is also a councillor for the MBA NSW-ACT. She has been published in The Australian, RM Williams Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, Kevin MD, Australian Medical Students Association Magazine, The ANZ Journal of Surgery and on a variety of other platforms. Her most widely read article was an anonymous piece, 'There is something rotten inside the medical profession', which detailed the stress of medical training and was shared more than 22,000 times and re-published widely around the world. This article led to the start of a conversation that her novel Going Under seeks to continue. Her debut novel Going Under, a fictionalised account of her internship, was an Australian best seller. She is passionate about First Nations health and improving health equity to people who live in regional and remote parts of the country. She spends part of the year living and working as a GP in remote Australia and this inspired her second book and memoir, Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl.
In this conversation we discuss Sonia's passion for writing which pre-dated her physiotherapy and medical careers and learn more about her motivations to write, writing process and hopes for her words. Sonia tells me more how she became involved with the Medical Benevolent association as a councillor and her work to support doctors' health and wellbeing and wider advocacy for needed healthcare system and cultural reform.
You can find our more about the Medical Benevolent Association NSW-ACT and/or donate the current appeal here: https://www.mbansw.org.au/donations
Thank you Sonia, I can't wait for book 3!
Links/References:
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Sonia-Henry-Put-Your-Feet-in-the-Dirt,-Girl-9781761068072/
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Sonia-Henry-Going-Under-9781760878641
https://kevinmd.com/2017/01/something-rotten-inside-medical-profession.html
This conversation again covers topics including doctor suicide and barriers to accessing mental health support. The excellent AMA/AMSA Traffic Light Guide includes contact numbers for doctors' health and other mental health helplines in Australia. Episode S5 E8 and S4 E12 show notes include relevant contact numbers and supports internationally in UK/Ireland/Canada/US/NZ.
https://www.ama.com.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/FINAL%20AMACDT%20x%20AMSA%20Mental%20Health%20Support%20Flyer%20June%202022.pdf
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S6 E2 I am delighted to welcome Dr Joshua D Hartzell MD MS-HPEd FACP FIDSA to the podcast. Dr Hartzell is an Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine Physician and a retired Army Colonel who has spent 25 years in military medicine. He is also the author of a fantastic new book : A Prescription for Caring in Healthcare Leadership: Building a Culture of Compassion and Excellence.
Throughout his career Dr Hartzell has held numerous leadership positions including being Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and Assistant Chief of Graduate Medical Education at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Assistant Dean for Faculty Development at the Uniformed Services University. He deployed as a Battalion Surgeon with the 82 nd Airborne Division to Afghanistan. He is also faculty at the MGH Institute of Health Professions where he teaches leadership development. As a practising clinician he has devoted the last decade to developing leaders training and teaching thousands of students, residents, and faculty within healthcare. Josh has
has delivered over 100 talks on leadership development and has written
numerous papers on the topic. He combines his years of boots on the ground leading in medicine with his research to teach other leaders practical strategies about how to sharpen their leadership skills in his book.
In this conversation I have the joy of exploring Josh's own story of self and motivation to write this book. He discusses the practicalities and process of writing and publishing in addition to his personal and professional purpose in sharing the strategy, art and practical application of leadership in healthcare. In this book he weaves science and story together in a very accessible format making this book both an enjoyable read but an enduring manual to re-visit again and again. We discuss feedback, sponsorship, organisational communication and "aggressive listening" as a leader in addition to leading and caring for self and others. There are many, many leadership books in the world but Josh provides a unique lens and needed prescription for healthcare today and going forward.
Links/References/Further Reading:
Dr Joshua Hartzell
https://joshuahartzellmd.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshhartzellmd/
Josh's reading recommendations
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BNKXF3VQ?ref_=mr_direct_us_au_au&showmri
https://danielcoyle.com/the-culture-code/
https://www.hayhouse.com.au/lead-from-the-heart-ebook
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome to Season 6 Episode 1 of the podcast. This season we will explore the overarching theme of hope as something we intentionally co-create through great strategy and action. I am incredibly honoured to be joined but not one but two "giants" in healthcare clinical leadership, Dr Don Berwick President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at at the Institute for Health Improvement and also special guest co-host Professor Catherine Crock Chair and Founder of the Hush Foundation. ( More complete bios in episode)
In this powerful conversation we again use Marshall Ganz's perfect story arc of self, us and now to explore Dr Berwick's own story and journey of healthcare improvement, we discuss how important it is not do this work alone and organise and bring others will us. We learn that there is method in mobilisation as beautifully demonstrated by the success of the 100, 000 lives campaign. Leadership remains the pervasive theme throughout and the call to action extends to all of us in healthcare but particularly to the highest levels of leadership to courage and kindness, to dare greatly, get rid of stupid stuff, deeply listen and engage clinicians and patients and be prepared to change mind and direction with new and involving information. Whilst a short podcast conversation cannot do full justice to the wealth of combined knowledge and wisdom of these two senior clinical leaders, I know you, like I, will gain so much from this one and I encourage you to explore more of the resources we discuss linked below.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulder of giants"
Sir Isaac Newton
Links, References and Recommended Reads :
https://www.ihi.org
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ihiturnonthelights
Link to IHI Dr Don Berwick and Dr Jessica Berwick
]https://youtu.be/kxZl8Kc0-S0?si=iWOdRAmt_rFuCGWN
The Moral determinants of health
Berwick DM. The Moral Determinants of Health. JAMA. 2020;324(3):225–226. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11129
Dr Don Berwick and Prof Amy Edmondson IHI Patient Safety Conference 2024
https://youtu.be/akLEl9XOA28?si=kMYRwtFo77B7HkU0
The Hush Foundation
https://www.hush.org.au
People, Power Change Marshall Ganz
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/people-power-change-organizing-democratic-renewal
Sir Michael Marmot The Health Gap
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/health-gap-9781408857977/
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S5 E 16 I am delighted to welcome Mr Bob Chapman to the podcast. Mr Chapman "The People's CEO" is Chairman and CEO of St. Louis, MO-based Barry-Wehmiller, a $3.6B global capital equipment and engineering solutions company with more than 12,000 team members. Mr Chapman became the senior executive of Barry- Wehmiller in 1975 at age 30 when the 90-year-old business had $20 million in revenue, outdated technology and a very weak financial position. As you will hear in this conversation despite the obstacles, Chapman applied a unique blend of strategy and culture over the next 45+ years in leading Barry-Wehmiller through more than 130 successful acquisitions. Over the past two decades, a series of realizations led him away from traditional management practices to Truly Human Leadership--a people-centric approach where his team members feel valued, cared for and integral to the company’s purpose. At Barry-Wehmiller, they have a unique measure of success: by the way they touch the lives of people.
Chapman’s experiences and the transformation he championed were the inspiration behind his 2015 WSJ bestseller Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family. The book is co- authored by Raj Sisodia, founder and co-author of Conscious Capitalism. . In 2016, Harvard Business School released a case study featuring Barry-Wehmiller’s unique approach to business, which is now taught at 70+ business schools around the world.
In 2013, Bob and his wife Cynthia launched a nonprofit, Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities, to bring the company’s groundbreaking Listen Like a Leader training to communities. And, in 2015, the Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute was founded to bring Barry-Wehmiller’s trademark culture transformation and leadership training to for-profit organizations.
I am joined here by special guest co-host Dr Chris Edmond ( S 5 E7) and together we have the opportunity to explore the leadership, strategy and culture which define the Chapman and Barry-Wehmiller organisational approach today. Mr Chapman himself credits his success in the face of adversity over the years to the combination of the core tenets of common sense, creativity and a positive attitude. His story, journey and work are testament to what is possible at the intersection of great business strategy and profound care for people. He wants everyone to see that caring for people and giving them meaning, purpose and fulfilment through their work is not in disharmony with creating value. If the key mission and work of this podcast is to mine for the pockets of excellent leadership and practice so that we can all learn and evolve, then we have certainly struck gold again here. Thank you Mr Bob Chapman for generously sharing your time, expertise and wisdom .
Links/ References:
To Read
https://www.barrywehmiller.com/outreach/book
To Listen https://www.barrywehmiller.com/blog
To Learn and Support
https://www.chapmancommunities.org/our-story/
https://www.ccoleadership.com
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S 5 E 15 I am delighted to welcome Fiona McCarthy to the podcast. Fiona is an occupational therapist by background specialising in workplace injury management and return to work. After her career in Occupational Therapy, Fiona became interested in primary prevention of workplace injury. She pursued post-graduate studies in Ergonomics , Safety and Health and Latrobe University. Since then, Fiona has worked in Safety and Wellbeing roles in Government, Higher Education and Health and Aged Care. she hold accreditation as a certified OHS professional and is a full member of the Human Factors Society of Australia.
In this conversation Fiona tells me more about her career trajectory leading to the work she does now consulting in job design, workflow and assisting workplaces with a proactive and primary prevention based approach to psychosocial safety. The core part of this episode focusses on psychosocial hazards and risk, what we mean by these terms and why this matters. Fiona breaks down her approach with some real world examples and very practical pearls. In particular she shares an example of excellent proactive practice in Tasmanian Bakeries, which was a finalist in this year's AIHS awards for best WHS Health and Wellbeing Program. In the final part of the conversation we discuss emerging research on the role of routine work stress as a contributor to psychosocial risk and the relevance of this to frontline responder roles in health and emergency services. Throughout this episode Fiona shares some excellent resources, linked below. Thank you Fiona for your optimistic, evidence and action-driven approach to occupational health, safety and wellbeing.
Links / References/ Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-mccarthy-75387abb/
https://www.workps.au
https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-02/Psychological-health-in-the-workplace_Snapshot_February2024.pdf https://www.aphirm.org.au https://learn.fwc.gov.au/local/catalogue_search/module_overview.php?id=13 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3974929/ https://wellbeing.hmc.ox.ac.uk/publications/employee-well-being-outcomes-from-individual-level-mental-health-interventions-cross-sectional-evidence-from-the-united-kingdom/
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BDI20_Workplace_Mental-Health_Toolkit.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mental%20Health%20Toolkit%20Download&
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S5 E14 I am delighted to welcome Pedja Stojicic, MD, MPH to the podcast.
Dr Stojicic is an instructor for the DrPH Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaching two courses - Enabling Teams and Enabling Large System Change. Pedja is passionate about enabling health leaders to use community organizing practices to advocate for equitable health and well-being. He currently serves as an executive lead for People, Power, Health https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/ .
In the past, he has worked with the CMS, Center for Public Health Leadership, Primary Care Progress, Way to Wellville, Healthcare Anchor Network, Center for Health Progress, and many others. Previously, Dr. Stojicic has served as president and executive director of Youth of JAZAS, a Serbian NGO fighting HIV/AIDS, and as a consultant for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia implementing health care financing reform. Dr. Stojicic completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School studying Leadership and Organizing with Prof. Marshall Ganz and later worked as a member of Ganz’s HKS Teaching Team. As a life-long activist, he currently serves on the advisory board of Leading Change Network, one of the largest global networks of social movement leaders.
In this incredible conversation Pedja tells us his own story of self before elaborating on the concept of narrative leadership and the practice and pedagogy of community organising to enable positive social, environmental and political change. We discuss the story arc of Self, Us and Now ( articulated by Professor Marshall Ganz in his book People. Power, Change) and why finding voice as clinicians and articulating our own story is a key first step to bringing others with us, building collective agency and taking action.
I learn more about work at People, Power, Health and HEART, an advocacy training program for courageous clinicians.
In challenging and uncertain times it is hard not to be inspired and energised by Dr Stojicic who aptly describes himself as intellectual pessimist but action optimist. This conversation is an empowering call to individual and collective action.
"Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has to be a key part of it"
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Links / References / Further Reading:
Dr Pedja Stojicic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedjastojicic/
People, Power, Health
https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/
HEART program - advocacy training for courageous clinicians
https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/heart
People, Power, Change Professor Marshall Ganz
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/people-power-change-organizing-democratic-renewal
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome to milestone episode 75! Thank you to past guests for generously contributing their time, expertise and wisdom to the podcast and inspiring me and many listeners. Thank you to everyone listening for continuing to support and grow this podcast and platform. Five years on this passion project still brings me joy and energy.
I can't think of a more fitting guest and topic to celebrate #75 than Dr Andrew Wines current president of podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT.
The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT is a registered ACNC charity run by Doctors for Doctors and their families. MBA NSW-ACT provides counselling and short-term financial assistance through times of crisis, illness, accident, mental health conditions, grief and loss of income to help Doctors and their families in NSW and ACT to recover and return to independence and wherever possible their vocation.
Dr Andrew Wines is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle in adults and children. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Sydney in 1994 and was awarded his fellowship in orthopaedic surgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2002.
He has been associated with the MBA NSW-ACT for 28 years joining initially as a councillor in his intern year. He has subsequently held a number of roles within the organisation including secretary, treasuring, vice president and now president.
In 2003 he was awarded a Churchill fellowship in 2003 to assess support services available to doctors and their families in Europe
Dr Wines holds a number of other leadership roles including in research and has made a considerable contribution to the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He is currently the second vice President and Treasurer of the AOA and will be President in 2026. At various stages he has been chair of the Champions of Change, Surgical Performance and Accreditation Committees and a member of the Professional Standards, Continuing Professional Development, Federal Training and Audit and Risk Committees. He is the founding Treasurer of the International Orthopaedic Diversity Association, which now has over 2000 members worldwide.
In this conversation Andrew shares his own powerful story which led him to become involved with the work of the MBA very early in his career and we discuss the work and impact of the MBA NSW-ACT past, present and looking ahead. Thank you Dr Wines, this episode is a wonderful testament to the work of the charity over many years.
Find out more information about the MBA support service and how you can donate here : https://www.givenow.com.au/mbansw
Other links/ references:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000610327863
https://www.orthopaedicdiversity.org
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S5 E12 I am delighted to introduce Dr Josh Case to the podcast. Josh is a medical doctor, software developer, startup founder and author. He is passionate about making the world's healthcare systems safer and more efficient by applying new and existing technology and by building the capability for individual clinicians to make change.
In this conversation Josh describes his early experiences of combining his dual skills as clinician and software developer to create tech solutions to improve the time and cost efficiency and reduce complexity of some of the administrative tasks required of his colleagues. We discuss some of the challenges of and opportunities for intrapreneurship within the healthcare system. A key thread relates to the need to maintain the necessary core business of healthcare and the safety, quality and clinical governance around this but also integrate innovation with a concomitant quality improvement process. I particularly loved his reflections about building the needed organisational architecture and internal networking to create cultures of safety, innovation and change.
We share a passion for clinician wellbeing and Josh has a unique lens on the medical workforce landscape through GoLocum. Again this leads to questions about how we can create the much needed agility, flexibility and investment and value of generalist skills needed to match demand and supply across the country going forward.
There will need to be a part 2 to this conversation as I suspect I barely scratched the surface here. Thank you Josh
Links / References:
Dr Josh Case https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-case/
https://joshcase.dev
https://golocum.com.au
Other links:
https://www.digitalhealthfest.com.au
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S 5 E 11 I am delighted welcome Dr Bethan Richards to the podcast. Dr Richards is a Staff Specialist Rheumatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Deputy Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health. In 2019, following her return from Stanford, Bethan had the honour of being appointed Chief Medical Wellness Officer in Sydney Local Health District – an Australian first. She is also the District’s inaugural MDOK Centre Director.
Throughout her career, Dr Richards has had extensive experience and a passion for designing and implementing mentoring, teaching, leadership and wellbeing programs. Following a successful pilot in junior medical staff, her evidence based BPTOK wellbeing program is now being rolled out to over 14,000 staff in Sydney Local Health District as MyDistrictOK (MDOK). Dr Richards is a national thought leader and researcher in the field of workplace wellbeing and has advised and mentored local, national and international organisational leaders on how to improve healthcare staff burnout and promote professional fulfilment.
This is a conversation I have wanted to have on the podcast for some time but feel we have reached a fitting and opportune juncture to have now.
It is hard to go first. This podcast celebrates the trailblazers and change makers in healthcare, business academia, sport and beyond. Many of my guests, like Bethan, have gone first as innovators, movers and shakers, so that they might make the path easier for those of us who follow and are coming after.
This is a high level conversation in which Bethan discusses her healthcare organisational wellbeing work and journey to date from pitch to pilot, through iteration and scaling with a strategic and clinical governance framework and lens. She looks ahead at how we can collectively progress the work incorporating into national safety, quality and accreditation standards. This is a masterclass at the intersection of leadership, strategy and innovation from someone who has been learning whilst doing and whose consistent and persistent efforts have afforded us a blueprint for healthcare organisational workforce wellbeing reform. This is the episode to listen to more than once, share with your colleagues and executive and healthcare leadership teams. Thank you Bethan for all the work that you do. On we sail.
References/Links/Related Reading:
https://mdok.org.au
Practical Pathways to Workplace Wellbeing Sydney Local Health District https://vimeo.com/showcase/11091788
https://beamtree.com.au/papers-publications/recommendations-to-sustain-our-humans-in-healthcare/
https://wellmd.stanford.edu/about/model-external.html https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/cwo-course.html
https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.20.0266
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
S5 E 10 Welcome to our first podcast bookclub! In this episode I am delighted to re-joined by two friends of the podcast and previous guests Dr Jonathan Fisher and Dr Anna Baverstock. If you haven't had a chance to listen to my conversations with Anna and Jonathan, press pause and listen here:
Deep Listening, brave conversations and the goal of connection with Dr Anna Baverstock
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/14939038-deep-listening-brave-conversations-and-the-goal-of-connection-with-dr-anna-baverstock.mp3?download=true
Training the Mind and healing the heart with Dr Jonathan Fisher https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/12417943-training-the-mind-and-healing-the-heart-with-dr-jonathan-fisher-md.mp3?download=true
What does it even mean to lead with heart? Why does this matter ? What does the science say and how do we master the art? What are the heart-centred, innately human qualities, traits and practices needed for leading self and team in the organisations of today and tomorrow? These are some of the rich conversations myself and Anna Baverstock delve into in our upcoming podcast with author Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC as we dissect his incredible book Just One Heart. Part memoir, part practical manual Just One Heart has something for everyone. Thank you Jonathan for your gift to the world.
Video Link to our conversation will be posted on the podcast website here: https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com/home
Just One Heart can be ordered here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1636760007?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
"The intersection of medicine, business and courageous creativity is where I've spent most of my career"
Wendy Dean MDIn S5 E9 I am delighted to introduce another "heavy hitter" in healthcare thought leadership and transformational practice, Wendy Dean MD, president and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare. Dr Dean is an alum of Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She trained in surgery and psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. After practicing for a decade, Wendy worked for the US Army, where she managed regenerative medicine research funding and guided strategy for a $70M investment in the emerging field of hand and face transplants. In that position, and as a senior executive at a large nonprofit in Washington, D.C., she worked closely with both the civilian and military medical communities, and many government agencies--BARDA, NIH, WHOSTP, NASA, DARPA--to develop novel strategies to restore form, function and appearance to ill and injured service members. She remains part of those communities as a board member and prize judge.
In describing her mission she says,"My focus now is on finding innovative ways to make medicine better for both patients and physicians through my own non-profit and by helping new talent and new ventures realize their big ideas."
Farming, fencing, photography, and riding big, opinionated horses keeps me focused outside of work.
In this conversation Wendy discusses the concept and definition of moral injury in medicine, how it is distinct but can co-exist with burnout, the implication of this for medical systems and organisations and the evolution of her own thinking and practice in this area since the publication of the OpEd she co-authored in 2018 "Clinicians aren't burning out they are suffering from moral injury". We discuss her book "If I Betray these Words" from idea to fruition and the challenges and opportunities of elevating clinical voices through story. The major part of this conversation is directed towards transformational leadership and practice in the modern day "business" of healthcare. Who is doing it well and what is working well? Wendy's commitment to mission and purpose and willingness to challenge her own and our collective thinking and practice permeates this entire episode. Thank you for energising me and for all the work that you do to move us forward towards a brighter future for healthcare.
Links/References/Reading/Listening:
https://wendydeanmd.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-dean-md/
https://www.fixmoralinjury.org/what-is-moral-injury
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/718606/if-i-betray-these-words-by-wendy-dean-and-simon-talbot/
https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/26/physicians-not-burning-out-they-are-suffering-moral-injury/
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/43cc/id1715895952
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S5 E8 I am delighted to welcome Dr Jess Morgan to the podcast. Dr Morgan is a UK based paediatrician who spent 11 years as a junior doctor in the NHS. In 2019, after experiencing burnout and mental illness, she left medicine altogether. Jess threw herself into a new career as a primary teacher, completing her PGCE during the Covid pandemic and then teaching her own class. More recently, she decided to return to medicine and is still navigating this journey. Jess has developed a passion for promoting and improving doctors’ mental health and wellbeing. Some listeners may know Jess as The Bipolar Doc, a twitter alias she has kept secret until very recently. By speaking and writing honestly about her own humanity and vulnerability, Jess has grown a large community of followers. She is currently a leadership fellow at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health working on a project to support paediatricians to have long, sustainable and thriving careers in the profession.
In this conversation Jess shares some more of her story and describes how her experiences have motivated her and given her courage to be a leading voice and advocate for her colleagues and determination to help build a safer more supportive healthcare system and culture. We discuss her current work with the RCPCH and her ambassador role with Doctors in Distress, a UK charity dedicated to providing mental wellbeing support to healthcare workers. Jess shares her teaching and presenting wisdom with a short masterclass in meeting your listeners and learners where they are and taking them where you want them to go, ending with a practical take home and call to action.
Jess's creativity, joy of learning, teaching and passionate advocacy permeate this entire conversation. I feel very grateful to have her in my tribe. Thank you Jess.
Links/references/resources:
Dr Jess Morgan
https://x.com/doc_bipolar
https://thebipolardoc.wordpress.com
UK Doctors and NHS Practitioners :
https://doctors-in-distress.org.uk
https://www.practitionerhealth.nhs.uk
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/your-wellbeing/wellbeing-support-services/sources-of-support-for-your-wellbeing
https://aboutwellbeingltd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/international-practitioner-health-summit-jun-2024.pdf
AMA/AMSA traffic light guide
https://www.ama.com.au/articles/amacdt-x-amsa-mental-health-support-traffic-light-guide
To read:
https://harpercollins.co.uk/pages/listen-kathryn-mannix
To listen:
https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com/
Wellbeing leadership CPD:
https://wellmd.stanford.edu
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S5 E7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Chris Edmond to the podcast. Dr Edmond is an occupational medicine physician based in Jersey. He is the Medical Director of WorkHealth (Channel Islands) Ltd, the Channel Islands’ only dedicated occupational health provider, and also holds Non-Executive Directorships at several non-profit organisations in the field of health and wellbeing in Jersey. Before qualifying in medicine in 2011, Chris worked in a variety of roles including strategy manager for a corporate bank, service improvement manager in the NHS, ran a web-design business and worked as a mental health support worker in East London, giving a him a relatively unique perspective on the drivers of health and health equity. Chris is passionate about applying public health and whole-systems lenses to his work in occupational health, and sees the workplace as a key driver of both good and poor health. He believes that by leveraging a preventative health approach in the workplace employers can be a key player in solving the nations health, productivity and wellbeing challenges.
I have been following Chris's work and reading his regular column for some time now. In this conversation we discuss his professional background, his current work and role as an occupational physician including the holistic scope of occupational medicine considering and caring for individuals in the context of their work and lives. We discuss data and implementation science with respect to evidence-based practice in occupational medicine and work-place health interventions, wider governance, policy and leadership across the occupational environment before turning the lens on our clinical colleagues and the potential value occupational physicians could contribute going forward.
Chris's passion, and purpose-driven quest to improve health, wellbeing and professional fulfilment for everyone in the workplace and beyond permeates this entire conversation. I felt energised by our conversation but Chris acknowledges the challenges and pitfalls of advocating and agitating for positive change and progress. His call to action is one of courage, collaboration and humility. Thank you Chris for the work that you do.
Links/References:
Dr Chris Edmond
https://x.com/chrismedmond
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-edmond-767271154/
https://www.workhealth.je/about/
https://whatworkswellbeing.org
Reading recommendations :
https://www.triarchypress.net/the-whitehall-effect.html
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317935/everybody-matters-by-bob-chapman-and-raj-sisodia/
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In S 5 E 6 I am delighted to introduce Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. Dr Phuong is Founder & Director of The Water Well Project. She is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Austin Health, Cabrini Health and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also a PhD candidate studying invasive pneumococcal disease in children. Prior to medicine, Linny was a qualified pharmacist and also holds a Master of Public Health. Linny has received recognition for her work with awards including the Australian Medical Association- Doctor in Training of the Year Award (2017), Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions’ Award- Leadership category (2016), Suncorp Hidden Local Heroes Finalist (2016) and Young Australian of the Year- Victorian State Finalist (2013).
In this episode Linny tells me the story of The Water Well Project from its grass root foundations to award-winning charity that improves the health and wellbeing of communities from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds by improving their health literacy. The organisation's core activity is the provision of free, interactive, community-based, health education sessions delivered by volunteer healthcare professionals across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales.
The Water Well Project utilises a community-centric model by working closely with refugee and migrant support organisations. Sessions are delivered upon requests from community groups and co-designed alongside community partners. This means that sessions are tailored to the needs of each community group and delivered in a culturally safe manner.
In this conversation Linny relates her own story driving her purpose driven mission to improve health literacy, healthcare access and culturally safe care for migrants, refugees asylum seeker seekers. We hear her fascinating founder story, which is undoubtedly one of innovation and entrepreneurship combined with a for-purpose vision, and her journey, lessons and the serendipity that has contributed along the way to becoming an award winning not for profit organisation. Crucially if you are a health care professional looking for a rewarding skilled volunteering opportunity you can learn more about the work of their programs and how to get involved. You can support and donate to the project via their website linked below.
Links and references:
Dr Phuong and The Water Well Projecthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/linny-kimly-phuong-76a9955a/
https://www.thewaterwellproject.org/about-the-project/
Related episode of the Mind Full Medic Podcast and work of Dr Raj Sundar
https://www.healthcareforhumans.org/
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000600383923
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In S5 E5 I am delighted to welcome Professor Himanshu Tambe to the podcast. Himanshu's passion is to empower individuals and organisations to thrive through continuous education. He is currently Visiting Faculty at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Indian School of Business (ISB) teaching Design of Business, Organisation Design, Leadership and Workforce Analytics. He also operates an early-stage software product company focused on optimising operations. Prior to this, he held several senior roles with Accenture Strategy & Consulting, the last one being the Managing Director for the Talent & Organisation Consulting business in Southeast Asia and India. Before that he worked for Arthur D Little, the world's oldest consulting firm; established and operated a niche Strategy and Organisation Design company; and worked as an automobile manufacturing engineer at the very start of his career.
Over a 30-year career in consulting and industry, he has proudly served more than 100 organisations across Public Sector, Metals & Mining and Banking in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Australia, and Europe. His work has been focused on designing and implementing Business Models, Organisation Design, Process Models, and Large-Scale Behaviour Change to deliver measurable improvements in the performance of people and organization. Over this period, Himanshu has acquired deep experience facilitating senior executive teams to execute change through vision and values alignment. Beyond the workplace he is, like me, an avid yoga practitioner and meditator and is learning jazz dance.
In this conversation Himanshu shares his insights from the global business environment on the key trends shaping the future of work and workforce. We discuss modern work and role redesign, humans versus machine, data-driven change, the quest to reconnect with meaning and purpose and investing in "hinge" leadership and unfreezing the frozen middle or core work-unit leaders. Many themes will be familiar to regular listeners and ultimately we are left with more questions and a call to action to reimagine the work environment. Thank you Himanshu.
Episode links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshutambe/
Himanshu Tambe on The ISB Leadercast Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/leadercast/id1691914486?i=1000626210529
Digital Health Festival Melbourne May 7/8 2024
https://digitalhealthfest.com.au/
Calling all Clinician Innovators :
Applications have opened for the CICA Lab Incubator program. More details here: https://www.cicalab.co/cicalab-incubator
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In S5 E4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Anna Baverstock to the podcast,
Anna is a consultant in community child health looking after children with complex neurodisability and their families. She has been an educational supervisor and Associate DME for support and wellbeing. She was invited to be a member of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission in 2019 (Mental Wellbeing Report | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)). Currently she is lead for senior doctor wellbeing and leadership within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Anna is a trained coach, mediator and Schwartz round facilitator. Her philosophy is how do we ensure the first patient of the shift and the last get the same kind, safe care? We must look after ourselves and our teams during our working day. A big part of this is how we connect to self and others especially when under pressure. Can we form brave spaces to enable honest conversation that enable growth and change?
When not talking she loves to run, do yoga, read, draw and doodle often inspired by quotes or poems that resonate.
In this wonderful conversation we discuss Anna's wellbeing leadership, mediation and coaching work. Key themes discussed here include :
Deep listening - to understand and connect, not reply or control.
Brave conversations- how can we lean into the challenging conversations including where there is conflict or we need to give or receive difficult feedback. As Anna tells it "Difficult conversations don't get easier, but we get braver" with practice.
Connection- in her work to empower and support core work-unit leaders in healthcare and build kind, inclusive cultures where high challenge comes with high support, psychological safety is the means and the goal is connection and creating space for deep listening. Thank you Anna, this conversation is a masterclass in wellness centred leadership.
Links/References:
Dr Anna Baverstock on X ( see pinned BMJ wellbeing at work article series and her daily doodle!)
https://twitter.com/anna_annabav
Anna on the Being Better, Together Podcast :
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/being-better-together/id1603984431?i=1000650871466
Anna’s suggested reading list related to the topics in this conversation:
· Brené Brown – Atlas of the heart
· Listen to Anna's podcast about the book :https://bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/11049191…
· Kim Scott – Radical Candor
· Stone & Heen – Thanks for the Feedback
· Amy Edmundson – The Fearless Organisation
· Daniel Coyle – The Culture Code
· Marshall Rosenberg – non violent communication
· Adam Grant – Think Again
· Timothy Clarke – 4 stages of psychological safety
· Trzeciak & Mazzarelli – Compassionomics
Register to hear from Dr Bethan Richards, Australia's first Chief Wellbeing Officer and her team at Sydney LHD at the Pathways to Wellbeing conference 30.04.24
https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/workplace-wellbeing-conferenc
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In S5 E3 I am delighted to welcome Dr Resa E Lewiss and Dr Adaira Landry to the podcast to discuss their soon to be released book Microskills.
About the authors :
ADAIRA LANDRY, MD, MEd, www.adairalandryMD.com is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-founder of WritingInColor.org, and co-author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact.
RESA E LEWISS MD www.resalewissmd.comis a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, creator host of The Visible Voices Podcast, and co-author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact.
They have written for CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Nature, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Science, Slate, STAT News, Teen Vogue, VOGUE, and USA Today. They have been quoted and featured in the Guardian, the HuffPost, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
About the book: MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, concrete fundamental building blocks that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills.
The book is a business self-help book, and we focus on educating the ready for college, ready for work community, and early career professionals with specific, actionable, strategies of the workplace. We share our successes, failures, doubts, observations to help keep the book engaging and personal. We also share very detailed critical actions to gain the MicroSkills. We try to make no assumptions about our readers as we realize that not everyone is starting in the same place. Our book covers topics, such as how to be a polished communicator, how to navigate conflict, how to build subject matter expertise, how to learn your workplace culture, and more.
In this conversation we discuss some of the core MicroSkills I identified in my reading of the book, including managing time and task lists, growing your network and making self-care a priority. This is a book I wish I'd had much sooner in my career but have taken many pearls to introduce to my own practice and routines. Thank you Adaira and Resa.
where to buy the book:
HarperCollin Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible
Request that your local library carry it
Additional links:Adaira’s Nonprofit: WritingInColor.org; focus on teaching people of color how to write for free
Resa’s Podcast: The Visible Voices; focus on healthcare, equity, and current trends space.
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Hello and welcome back to S5 E2 with my friend, peer mentor and colleague Dr Sarah Dalton who regular listeners to the podcast will recognise. You can find a link to our previous episode together and Sarah's full bio as clinician executive leader and coach here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/10201358-lessons-in-leadership-and-coaching-conversations-with-dr-sarah-dalton.mp3?download=true
In this episode Sarah turns the mic on me as we reflect together on the year and past podcast season that was and contemplate some aspirations for the year and work ahead. The belated release of the podcast has actually seemed timely on the back of the recent Creative Careers in Medicine conference Meet me in the Mediverse held in Sydney March9/10. You can find links to the recordings for CCIM and past podcast episodes and guest content discussed and referenced in this conversation below:
The JMO Manifesto
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/14203668-the-jmo-manifesto-a-blueprint-for-strategic-organisational-wellbeing-reform.mp3?download=true
Junior Doctor voice with Victoria Lister https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/13704202-employee-voice-and-silence-in-healthcare-and-the-role-of-profession-with-victoria-lister.mp3?download=true
Psychological Safety with Professor Amy Edmondson https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/12857423-psychological-safety-as-a-means-to-the-goals-of-patient-safety-innovation-and-thriving-in-healthcare-with-professor-amy-edmondson.mp3?download=true
Wellness-centred leadership with Dr Dan Murphy https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/11257368-wellness-centred-leadership-with-dr-daniel-murphy-md.mp3?download=true
CCIM Meet me in the Mediverse
https://creativecareersinmedicine.com/initiatives/events/
Dr Amandeep Hansra, Founder CCIM
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/8616316-creative-careers-in-medicine-and-building-community-through-connection-with-dr-amandeep-hansra.mp3?download=true
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Welcome to Season 5 of the podcast. In this first episode, It's my great pleasure to introduce Professor Jill Klein. In addition to numerous other hats and talents Jill is Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School and Professorial Fellow in Medical Education at Melbourne Medical School.
Jill received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1990 and since then has taught at top universities and business school around the world. She joined the faculty at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University in 1990, and the faculty at INSEAD in 1997.She has also been a visiting scholar at Duke University, Helsinki School of Business and Economics, and University of Texas at Austin. She joined Melbourne Business School in 2009, and Melbourne Medical School in 2015. Jill teaches Resilience and Well-Being, Managerial Judgment, Clinical Decision Making, and Leadership. Her research interests are in resilience and well-being, decision making, business ethics and ethical consumption. She has published widely, including in the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Management Science, Journal of Consumer Researchand Harvard Business Review. She authored the book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Family’s Path Through Auschwitz, and is currently writing (with Dr Jordyn Feingold), Thriving in Medial School, a well-being book for medical students. She often appears in the media, and has had pieces published in The Guardian, Australian Financial Review, The Age and Huffington Post.
I had the great privilege of being taught Managerial Judgement by Jill at the Melbourne Business School in late 2023 and was struck by the importance of her work and applied expertise in healthcare. This work is very much aligned with this podcast mission and listenership. In this conversation we hear more about Jill's early career experiences and how these may have contributed to her subsequent trajectory, research interests and teaching mission. I was particularly keen to explore her work around clinical error and growth mindset. Jill fields some tough questions from me on the topic of resilience in healthcare and we are treated to a taster of her upcoming book "Thriving in Medical School". I anticipate a successful "Thriving In..." book series to come. Thank you Professor Klein, I very much hope there will be part 2 to this episode at a later date.
This episode of dedicated to incredible life and memory of Gene Klein, Jill's dear and beloved best friend and father.Links/References/ Contacts:https://mbs.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/jill-klein
https://www.amazon.com.au/We-Got-Water-Tracing-Auschwitz/dp/0615806961 Growth mindset YouTube series for medical students
https://youtu.be/YdmlTf8zTYQ?si=tpUvLC56C2fXLHeM
Jill's Recommendations:
https://ig.ft.com/sites/business-book-award/books/2023/winner/right-kind-of-wrong-by-amy-edmondson/
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In the final episode of Season 4 I record a special cross over with my friend and mentor Dr Andrea Austin. For regular listeners Dr Austin will need no introduction. A fellow Emergency Physician practising in San Diego California, Andrea is also a simulator educator and director of emergency residency simulation training program, a coach, podcast host of the excellent The Revitalising Doctor podcast https://therevitalizingdoctor.buzzsprout.com and co-founder of the Revitalize Women Physician Circle platform https://www.peoplealwayshcc.com/revitalize creating a space for women physicians to come together for peer mentoring, coaching, community and connection. Her full bio can be found here : https://www.andreaaustinmd.com/about
Andrea and I first connected through our mutual colleague Dr Dan Dworkis host of https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast and I am personally very grateful to him for bringing us together across the world.
Having met once in person and multiple times virtually now through our regular "Frentor" connect virtual meetings, in this special cross over podcast we decided to record one of our conversations. The end of a big year professional and personally for Andrea was an opportune time to reflect on lessons learned, challenges encountered and also to look ahead to horizons two and three in 2024 and explore goals, aspirations and opportunities.
Themes discussed here include post-traumatic growth, knowing your worth and how to navigate a portfolio career and opportunities whilst setting necessary boundaries for self-care and sustainable practice. As a continuation of our earlier recorded episodes I was most struck and impressed by the evolution of Andrea's values as internal compass and anchor as she moves through the world.
We discuss some of her podcast guest highlights, coaching practice and the exciting developments of the Revitalize Women's Physicians Circle in 2024. Finally we are treated to a taster to her upcoming book Revitalized at the end of the episode which will be linked here when it is live. In the second part of our conversation Andrea turns the mic on me on her podcast :
Previous episodes with Dr Austin
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000538191164
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000569869230
Andrea's Reading recommendations
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/if-i-betray-these-words-9781586423544
https://www.hachette.com.au/katherine-morgan-schafler/the-perfectionists-guide-to-losingcontrol#:~:text=In%20The%20Perfectionist%27s%20Guide%20to,advice%20to%20%27find%
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In S4 E14, the penultimate episode for season 4, I am delighted to welcome three clinicians from North Metropolitan Health Service (NMHS) in WA to speak about their collaborative work to create and implement the multiple award-winning organisational initiative to improve Junior Medical Officer working conditions, wellbeing and experience, The JMO Manifesto.
The NMHS JMO Manifesto was developed in collaboration with JMOs and DITs ( Doctors in training), Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital ( SCGH) RMO Society, Senior Clinicians and the AMA.
https://www.nmhs.health.wa.gov.au/News/2022/12/14/Junior-Medical-Officer-Manifesto
In this conversation I hear from Dr George Eskander current executive director of medical services at NMHS and proud executive sponsor of the JMO Manifesto , Dr Katie McCleod, registrar working in a medical administration and research role at SCGH and Dr Roberta Dumbrava, the SCGH RMO Society co-president and current PGY3 RMO. ( Full bios in episode and on website )
All three clinicians play instrumental leadership roles and work in collaboration to implement, iterate and evolve the JMO manifesto.
In this conversation I hear about the nuts and bolts of the manifesto from concept to implementation, the success to date and future plans to evolve the system and process.
On first hearing about the JMO Manifesto it might sound like a "unicorn" in building a robust healthcare workforce value proposition but on paper the NMHS JMO Manifesto is quite simple and, indeed, rather obvious. It is however very clear to me, in speaking to the team, that excellence in collaborative values-driven leadership and building a culture of genuine psychological safety have been the enablers. George, Katie and Robbie describe a shift in "the feel of the place" and that their organisation has done a "180 flip". All three clinicians are passionate about creating sustainable organisational and cultural reform and embracing genuine staff wellness through strategic action. The JMO Manifesto is an excellent blueprint for strategic organisational wellbeing reform
I am grateful to Dr George Eskander, Dr Roberta Dumbrava and Dr Katie McLeod for sharing their time and expertise. This is how we learn from excellence.
Other links/ references/ recommended reading and listening:
S4 E11 with Victoria Lister
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/13704202-employee-voice-and-silence-in-healthcare-and-the-role-of-profession-with-victoria-lister.mp3?download=true
Beamtree/ Health Round Table Organisational Response to Wellbeing Collaborative Paper 2023
https://beamtree.com.au/papers-publications/recommendations-to-sustain-our-humans-in-healthcare/
New Podcast Website
https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com
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S4 E 13 continuation of this special two-part conversation from podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT www.mbansw.org.au with their senior social worker Julia Kwiet and general surgeon Dr Sue Velovski. Listen to part 1 here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/14033621-supporting-doctors-health-and-wellbeing-in-training-and-through-difficult-times-with-julia-kwiet-and-dr-sue-velovski-special-sponsor-episode-part-1.mp3?download=true
In part two of our conversation we discuss Sue and Julia's involvement and support work with their colleagues and local community during and in the aftermath of the Lismore flood emergency. They emphasise the power of community and connection in the midst of crisis and later in processing collective trauma. Their experiences and learning from the disaster will undoubtedly help to guide future emergency responses and support services for healthcare workers and their patients. In the latter part of the conversation I have an opportunity to explore some of Julia and Sue's own personal techniques and tools for self-care and wellbeing which help them to continue to show up to bear witness and support their colleagues, clients and patients.
Content warning: This conversation does discuss suicide, if you have been affected by any of the important topics discussed please reach out for help, support and use key resources and contacts here and comprehensive list in part 1 show notes.
Important Links:
Doctors' Health, Wellbeing and Mental Health Support Services
AMA/AMSA Traffic light guide to supports for Doctors:
https://www.ama.com.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/FINAL%20AMACDT%20x%20AMSA%20Mental%20Health%20Support%20Flyer%20June%202022.pdf
Drs4u: This website is only for the use of medical professionals and medical students. https://www.drs4drs.com.au/ For urgent mental health support, call 1300 374 377 (1300 Drs4Drs) anytime, 24/7If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, there are people here to help. Please seek out help from one of the below contacts:
Lifeline| 13 11 14 | 24-hour Australian crisis counselling service
Suicide Call Back Service| 1300 659 467 | 24-hour Australian counselling service
Beyondblue| 1300 22 4636 | 24-hour phone support and online chat service and links to resources and apps
**THESE ARE NOT EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS: IN AN EMERGENCY PLEASE CALL 000
Dr Sue's book recommedations by Bev Aisbett:**
https://www.bevaisbettartofanxiety.com
https://www.instagram.com/bevaisbettandit/
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The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S4 E 12 I am delighted to bring this special two-part conversation from podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT www.mbansw.org.au with their senior social worker Julia Kwiet and general surgeon Dr Sue Velovski.
In part one of this conversation I hear more about Julia and Sue's professional and personal backgrounds and why and how they both came to be working and advocating in the area of doctors' health and wellbeing and collaborating together through the MBA.
Julia is a clinical social worker with two decades of expertise in managing complex trauma, psychosocial assessment and therapeutic interventions.
Dr Sue Velovski is a specialist general surgeon working in the northern rivers of NSW. She was awarded rural doctor of the year in 2022 for her contribution to and ongoing support of her community, cancer patents, training and teaching of students, GPs and hospital staff ( more complete bios for both of my guests in this episode )
Content warning: This conversation does discuss suicide, if you have been affected by any of the important topics discussed please reach out for help, support and use the list of key resources and. contacts here.
Important Links:
Doctors' Health, Wellbeing and Mental Health Support Services
AMA/AMSA Traffic light guide to supports for Doctors:
https://www.ama.com.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/FINAL%20AMACDT%20x%20AMSA%20Mental%20Health%20Support%20Flyer%20June%202022.pdf
Drs4u: This website is only for the use of medical professionals and medical students. https://www.drs4drs.com.au/ For urgent mental health support, call 1300 374 377 (1300 Drs4Drs) anytime, 24/7If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, there are people here to help. Please seek out help from one of the below contacts:
Lifeline| 13 11 14 | 24-hour Australian crisis counselling service
Suicide Call Back Service| 1300 659 467 | 24-hour Australian counselling service
Beyondblue| 1300 22 4636 | 24-hour phone support and online chat service and links to resources and apps
THESE ARE NOT EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS: IN AN EMERGENCY PLEASE CALL 000AMA Peer Support Line … 1300 853 338 or 1800 991 997
Hand-n-Hand Peer Support
International links NZ/US/UK/Ireland/Canada :
https://physiciansanonymous.org/physician-suicide-prevention-resources/
Further reading:
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2022/22/100-years-of-physician-suicide-call-for-action/
Introducing the MBA NSW-ACT with Louise Fallon https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/12707883-introducing-the-medical-benevolent-association-of-nsw-with-louise-fallon.mp3?download=true
The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about their service or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S4 E11 I am delighted to welcome Victoria Lister to the podcast. Victoria has an extensive background in hospitality, advertising and the non-profit sector. She is PhD researcher in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University. Her PhD research is in the area of employee voice and silence in healthcare. It examines what junior doctors do and don't speak up about at work and why, with a special interest in the professional forces that shape junior doctor silence. Victoria also researches the voice and silence experiences of early career academics; works on health workforce wellbeing initiatives; has a 'side hustle' as a designer and retailer of women's active and underwear; and will soon offer coaching as a path to voice for junior doctors who are MDs, PhDs. or both.
In this conversation Victoria discusses her research work and defines employee voice and silence within the context of the healthcare environment. She describes the different lenses through which employee voice in healthcare can be viewed and expressed e.g patient safety and employee working conditions. We discuss in more detail her qualitative research with doctors and the junior doctor cohort in particular. Victoria explores the role of profession and culture and the so-called "hidden curriculum" of medicine and the barriers this can create to speaking up. Many core podcast themes and topics are re-visited in this, at times, hard to hear but crucial conversation. I am nevertheless encouraged by the hopeful pockets of excellence we highlight and the power of collective voice and momentum. Thank you Victoria.
Links/references/resources:
Victoria Lister
victoria@victorialister.com
victorialister.com
Follow me on LinkedIn
Victoria Lister |Hummingbird Pie | Underwear and Outerwear victoria@hummingbirdpie.comhummingbirdpie.com
Healing the Professional Culture of Medicine article
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0025-6196%2819%2930345-3
RACP Pomegranate Health Podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ep101-setting-the-standard-for-workforce-wellbeing/id1022747864?i=1000629370015
Gathering of Kindness events
https://www.gatheringofkindness.org/gok-2023
Beyond the Stethoscope Lucy Mayes
https://www.lucymayes.com/beyond-the-stethoscope
Other sources of help and support:
https://www.handnhand.org.au
https://www.drs4drs.com.au
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S4 E 10. In this second episode recorded after the inaugural Beamtree / Health Round Table Organisational Response to Workforce Wellbeing summit #ORW23, I am delighted to introduce Fiona Fitzgerald Workforce Wellbeing Knowledge Network lead for Beamtree, the service partner for Health Round Table.
Fiona is a registered nurse by background with nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare, including 12 years working in the health informatics space with a focus on delivering IT solutions that improve patient outcomes and healthcare workflows.
Fiona is passionate about improving the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce. In 2018 she began to journey to bring the Well-Being Index developed by Mayo Clinic to the Australia and New Zealand healthcare workforce with the support of Health Round Table. She believes that wellbeing is a shared responsibility and through collaboration, curiosity, kindness and leadership the tide of burnout can be turned. Fiona has been an instrumental driving force behind #ORS23.
In this conversation we visit Fiona's professional and personal journey and mission. Fiona discusses Australia and New Zealand role out of the Well-being index tool to date including the successes, challenges and future opportunities for organisations, teams and individuals in healthcare in leading and co-creating a thriving healthcare workforce alongside high quality, safe patient care.
Links/ References/Resources:
Fiona Fitzgerald
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-fitzgerald-5063b653/fiona.fitzgerald@beamtree.com.au
Beamtree
https://beamtree.com.au/our-solutions/workforce-wellbeing/
Discussion paper: Recommendations to sustain our humans in healthcare
White Paper: Addressing Burnout Bringing data-driven solutions, care and hope to the health workforce.
Videos: What is Burnout?, Why is burnout important to consider in healthcare?, What are some organisations doing better than others?, Working towards best practice in managing burnout
Book recommendation:
Swensen, Stephen, and Tait Shanafelt, Mayo Clinic Strategies To Reduce Burnout: 12 Actions to Create the Ideal Workplace, Mayo Clinic Scientific Press (New York, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Mar. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190848965.001.0001
The Mind Full Medic Podcast with John McMahon
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In S 4 E 9 I am delighted to introduce John McMahon Director of Client Experience and a product specialist for the Well-Being Index. John has personally worked with over one hundred organisations to launch the tool to hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals. He has applied expertise in helping organisations practically use and apply wellbeing data and resources to guide evidence-based initiatives and implement programmes.
This episode is the first in a series of episodes resulting from the recent Organisational Response to Workforce Wellbeing summit facilitated by Beamtree and Health Round Tablein Sydney. Fiona Fitzgerald Workforce Wellbeing Knowledge Network lead was the key driving force behind this summit and I am looking forward to sharing her insights in part 2 of this conversation. Beamtree and Health Round Table brought Professor Tait Shanafelt, chief wellness officer at Stanford WellMD and a frequently referenced expert on this podcast, and John McMahon over from the United States for this event.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with John the day after the summit to tap into his wealth of applied knowledge. As you will see his breadth and depth of expertise and experience in this area is truly unique.
We discuss the role of the well-being index as one of the recognised validated tools for collection individual and organisational wellbeing data. John emphasises the important evidence for work-level interventions and how organisation can practically leverage data for evidence-based change. He provides real world examples of success and we explore the myths and challenges organisations face in appropriately using data to implement successful wellbeing programmes.
John's knowledge, perspective and applied expertise in this area seriously impressed me. I anticipate the need for a subsequent episode. In the meantime you can find all of the relevant links and resources we discuss listed below.
"Workforce distress = Unsafe healthcare" Tim Kelsey Beamtree CEO, #ORW23**Links / references/resources:
Wellbeing-Index and John McMahon
https://www.mywellbeingindex.org/resources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjmcmahon/
Beamtree and Fiona Fitzgerald
https://beamtree.com.au/our-solutions/workforce-wellbeing/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-fitzgerald-5063b653/
fiona.fitzgerald@beamtree.com.au
Beamtree Wellbeing Advisory group discussion paper
https://beamtree.com.au/papers-publications/recommendations-to-sustain-our-humans-in-healthcare/
Other useful resources:**
https://ceih.sa.gov.au/assets/library/CEIH-Fact-Sheet-Wellbeing-Measurement_Public.pdf
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Welcome back to S 4 E 8. In this episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Jo Baird FAFRM (RACP).
Dr Baird is a Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist based in Orange, NSW, Australia. Originally from Cambridge in the UK, she completed her medical training there before moving to Australia to complete her specialisation in Rehabilitation Medicine. Jo is passionate about helping professionals in medicine overcome burnout and achieve greater joy and fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives. She offers coaching services to support clinicians in this journey, alongside her work in clinical medicine, where she focuses on the rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injuries.
Jo is a current participant in the inaugural Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program, and has upskilled in business development and grown her network of entrepreneurs in healthcare, creating a burnout recovery program online.
In this conversation we discuss Jo's personal and professional journey as doctor and clinician coach. Familiar podcast themes of coaching and individual, cultural and systemic factors contributing to healthcare workforce burnout are visited.
I am particularly keen to explore Jo's clinical entrepreneurship journey as she builds business and brand. We unpack her AUSCEP experience and her developing skills and tools to continue to build her coaching business and platform.
Key threads in this conversation include knowing our worth, putting a value on our skills and training and building the business case for coaching as a clinician workforce wellbeing tactic.
Jo has recently launched her complete burnout recovery online programme http://bit.ly/3MQcRCc in addition to expanding her individual and upcoming group coaching offerings. Further information about Jo and her work is linked below.
Links / References :
Dr Jo Baird
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjobraid/
https://www.instagram.com/burnoutrecoverydr/
https://www.drjobraid.com
Jo's Complete Burnout Recovery Program: http://bit.ly/3MQcRCc
The Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program
https://www.auscep.com.au
Upcoming Beamtree/Health Round Table Workforce Wellbeing Summit
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/organisational-response-to-workforce-wellbeing-registration-467286224677
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In S4 E7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Kimberly Humphrey MD FACEM MPH to the podcast. Dr Humphrey is a fellow Emergency Physician and Public Heath medical consultant in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the current fellow in climate change and human health at Harvard University. Dr Humphrey has specific expertise in research, policy and advocacy at the intersection of climate change and health, emergency medicine and public health, and disaster mitigation and adaptation. Her professional mission is invested in working to integrate climate, health and equity principles into the education of health professionals to enable a just transition.
In this conversation we zoom out and in exploring the macro-level climate health policy and systemic changes necessary going forward and how this translates at the micro-level in terms of tangible and practical actions clinicians, emergency departments and hospitals can take in the immediate to short term. She describes the "green ED", traffic light systems and the importance of small actions of advocacy and informed conversations with patients.
Dr Humphrey's passionate and energising advocacy and expertise suffuses this entire conversation, What could be a dark and at times seemingly hopeless discussion is, instead, hopeful and very practical. Her own leadership journey is prominent for courage, persistence and a willingness to embrace learning, innovation, and diversity of perspective.
I learned a lot from Kimberly and from her recommended reading and resources listed here.
Links /resources / references:
Dr Kimberly Humphrey
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-humphrey-866a703b/
IPCC report ( https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/
WHO Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565073
Healthy, regenerative and just: Guiding the development of a national strategy on climate, health and well-being for Australia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000044· Climate Change and Emergency Medicine: Impacts and Opportunitieshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00469.x
Delivering a net zero NHS https://www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/a-net-zero-nhs/
Hopeful reading recommendations:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623543/the-future-we-choose-by-christiana-figueres-and-tom-rivett-carnac/https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2000-not-too-late
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In S4 E5 I am delighted to welcome Dr Simon Fleming MBBS FRCS MSc PhD MAcadMEd, MASE(RACS), MFSTEd, AFHEA to the podcast. Dr Fleming is an orthopaedic surgeon, medical educator and culture change champion currently based in London, UK. He is perhaps most recognised and regarded for his leadership work speaking up and out and inspiring action to address bullying, harassment and undermining in healthcare. He has now spent over a decade working in this space advocating locally and globally for culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in medicine.
In this conversation we explore Simon's leadership journey and the personal values, mission and purpose which drives and sustains his work, despite the undoubted challenges, and sadly at times personal and professional toll these can take. Simon discusses relative power and privilege, being an ally and voice for the voiceless but also what it takes to build the culture and systems which elevate all of the voices in the room. There are some key pearls from his early work as president of the British Orthopaedic Training Association, particularly with respect to how to engage clinicians and senior leaders and policy makers, gain trust and reliable information and start the "tectonic process" of tangible change and action. Listen to his powerful TEDxExeter talk "The era of the bully is over"
We discuss his international and collaborative work with colleagues including previous podcast guest Dr Rhea Liang. The importance of building coalitions and the need for critical friends, family and mentors, when navigating difficult healthcare organisational terrain, are recurring and fundamental themes.
I left this conversation energised, encouraged and excited to see what Dr Fleming will do next as he begins the next chapter of professional and personal life back in Australia.
"With privilege comes responsibility"
Flemingism ( Dr Simon Fleming)
Links /references :
Dr Simon Fleming :
https://simonfleming.co.uk
https://twitter.com/orthopodreg
TEDxExeter "The era of the bully is over" Dr Simon Fleming
https://youtu.be/aVkGiziPY1o
Recommend Podcasts on this topic with Dr Rhea Liang and Dr Simon Fleming https://on.soundcloud.com/mXSa1
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/11862720-operating-with-respect-and-leading-system-and-culture-change-in-healthcare-with-dr-rhea-liang.mp3?download=true
Companion Podcast Episode with Dr Rhea Liang
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rcseng/episodes/Culture-Change-Why-do-we-need-culture-change-ekeo1v/a-a3djbs4
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In S 4 E 5 I am honoured to speak with Professor Amy Edmondson. Professor Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. She is a world-renowned thought ( and action) leader in organisational learning, leadership and team work. She is however perhaps most known and regarded for her work in the area of psychological safety and team performance. In 2019 she published her book The Fearless Organization which I throughly recommend to my colleagues in healthcare.
In this conversation, which I am conscious only skims the surface of her incredible richness and depth of expertise and perspective, we discuss the origins of her research in healthcare teams and evolution over time.
Although spanning a broad range of professions and industries globally, Professor Edmondson offers a healthcare lens and perspective on her work. I am particularly keen to explore uncertainty and complexity in healthcare and the transient and "flash" nature of some of our teams coming together, sometimes to care for the sickest patients.
My key takeaways from our conversation include:
1. Local leadership really matters
2. When it comes to building psychological safety, be explicit.
3. Clinician wellbeing, like psychological safety, are the means to the goal, with is high quality, safe patient care.
Thank you Professor Edmondson for generously sharing your time, expertise and a wide range of practical resources ( see below). Your genuine curiosity to drive us forward has local and global impact.
"Success in an uncertain world depends on high-quality bets. High quality bets depend on high-quality conversations. These don't happen by accident. "
Amy Edmondson
Links/References/Resources:
Professor Amy Edmondson
https://amycedmondson.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amedmondson/
The Fearless Organisation
Edmondson, Amy C. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
Recent HBR articles discussed:
https://hbr.org/2023/01/rethink-your-employee-value-proposition https://hbr.org/2023/04/make-it-safe-for-employees-to-speak-up-especially-in-risky-times
Related podcasts:
Studying team culture and cultivating psychological safety in medicine with Dr Eve Purdy
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000541673839
The impact of behaviour on individual and team performance and why civility can save lives in healthcare with Dr Chris Turner
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000565352749
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In S 4 E 4 I am delighted to introduce Louise Fallon, Executive Officer of The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW, known as MBANSW, to speak about the their work supporting doctors. I first met Louise at The Doctor's Health conference in Adelaide last year.
The MBANSW is an independent charity that has been supporting doctors in NSW and ACT since 1896. They provide specialised counselling, information, referral and financial assistance to doctors and their families during times of adversity or hardship. Their aim is to provide non-judgemental support so that the doctor or family member, recovers their wellbeing and independence, and wherever possible, returns to their vocation. Their services are free, specialised, and no referral is necessary. All contact is kept strictly confidential, and they are independent of any regulatory body.
In this conversation Louise tells me about the history of the organisation, the work and services provided and their direction in more recent years. moving also into the preventative space. For me, a standout in this conversation is the very evident dedication, vocation and commitment Louise herself demonstrates for this work and her team.
"There comes a point where we need to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out WHY they're falling in." Desmond Tutu
Links / references:
www.mbansw.org.au
MBANSW does wonderful work for those of our colleagues who are, at this very minute experiencing a hard time. One way you can show you care about Doctors welfare, is to go to their website www.mbansw.org.au and donate today, Knowing that their colleagues care is a big part of these doctors’ recovery – so please be part of the solution. All donations are tax deductable. If you can , please also consider a monthly donation as even small amounts, collectively, will allow them to plan their growth to support the increased demand.
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In S4 E50 I am delighted to welcome Dr Jonathan Fisher MD FACC to the podcast. I can't think of a more apt guest to celebrate half a century of episodes. Dr Fisher is a Harvard-trained clinical cardiologist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and organizational well-being and resiliency leader at Novant Health for a team of 38,000. He has delivered keynotes and workshops on heartful leadership, stress mastery, and total well-being for teams and organizations globally including IBM, Bank of America, IE Business School, The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, along with universities and healthcare organizations. In 2020 he co-founded the Ending Physician Burnout Global Community and organized the world’s first global summit dedicated to ending physician burnout, with over a thousand participants from 43 countries. His first book “Just One Heart” on the ancient art and modern science of mind heart connection is due out Fall 2023. Dr. Jonathan Fisher’s personal mission is to help others train the mind and heal the heart. This strong mission and purpose is palpable up close and Dr Fisher is truly a clinician and executive leader walking the talk.
In this conversation we discuss his own unique story of medicine and life which has led him here to today, invested in the work of helping colleague and patients to improve their holistic wellbeing and assisting teams and organizations to reach for optimal performance. Many central podcast themes are revisited through our conversation.
Jonathan describes his journey gaining over a decade of learning and practice of mindfulness meditation to his present truly practical application of ancient wisdom and modern science as a mindful leader and healer . We discuss how we might seek to integrate the delivery of individual self-care, compassion and other performance tools with addressing broader systemic and cultural problems facing healthcare organizations. As a growing number of clinical physician executives combining front line clinical practice with executive leadership and management roles, I am curious to hear about his practical day to day work and the other skills and learning he has acquired and gained to date.
Jonathan gives us a teaser for his upcoming, and now for me much anticipated, book "Just One Heart" due for release later in the year. Finally this episode ends on a thoroughly grounding and simultaneously uplifting note as Dr Fisher treats me to his guided self-care reset ( Breathing, Embody, Smile, Thanks, Love, Intention, Flex, Envision).
References/Links:
https://www.drjonathanfisher.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd/
Ending Physician Burnout Global Community https://endingphysicianburnout.com
Battling Healthcare Burnout Thom Mayer https://www.penguin.com.au/books/battling-healthcare-burnout-9781523089918
Mayo clinic Strategies to Reduce Burnout 12 Actions to create the Ideal Workplace
Stephen Swenson, Tait Shanafelt https://academic.oup.com/book/36545Vivek H Murthy MD, MBA https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/workplace-well-being/index.html
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In S4 E 1 I am delighted to introduce Dr Raj Sundar MD. Raj is a full-spectrum family physician, associate medical director and community organizer. He hosts the fabulous Healthcare for Humans podcast, a space dedicated to educating others on how to care for culturally diverse communities so they can be better healers. He works with others to create systems which treat each person with dignity, respect their histories, celebrate their joys, and honour their hopes. His leadership vision is to create conditions that enable others to achieve a shared purpose. It’s a leadership based on enabling, facilitating, and sharing power.
This is a powerful episode which left me with many questions and much to reflect on. We discuss Raj's own story of medicine to date drawing on the role our history, culture and ancestry can play in our journeys. Dr Sundar inspires as a clinician with a deep sense of self, values and purpose cultivated over time and with experience and deep work. We discuss what it means to deeply engage community and explains his role and work as a community organizer.
At the core of this conversation is Raj's mission to care of his patients in a culturally safe, inclusive and truly holistic way, inspiring fellow clinicians to do likewise, in spite of the undeniable systemic challenges and barriers we face. He explains the important distinction between cultural competence and cultural safety and sensitivity in a way I have never previously heard it described, leaving me deeply curious about the work we have to do individually and collectively.
I have been moved, challenged and motivated by the words and actions of this inspiring clinician and I know you will be too. Thank you Raj for the community you are growing and for the work you step up to do every day. Enjoy
Links/ references :
Dr Raj Sundar
https://twitter.com/KRajSundar
Healthcare for humans Podcast and Website
https://www.healthcareforhumans.org
Raj's Book recommendation:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta?variant=32280908103714
*Healing the Professional Culture of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Special Article vol 94, issue 8, P1556-1566. August 2019
Tait D Shanafelt, MD et al*
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.03.026
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Welcome back to Season 4. In this opening episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Tammie Chang to the podcast. Tammie is a board-certified pediatric oncologist, award-winning author, TEDx speaker, leadership coach, podcast host and fierce national advocate for cultural change in healthcare. She is the Co-Founder of Pink Coat, MD, the Co-Founder and Director of ELEVATE, the American Medical Women's Association’s Leadership Development Program for Women Physicians, and the Medical Director of Provider Wellness for MultiCare Health System.
She is the award-winning author of Boundaries for Women Physicians, the co-author of How to Thrive as a Woman Physician, and the creator and host of the LeadHER Podcast for Women Physicians. She has received numerous awards including Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders of Washington for 2022, the 2022 American Stevie Business Awards Gold Maverick of the Year and Woman of the Year, the 2022 Stevie American Women in Business Gold Woman of the Year in Healthcare Award, and Health 2.0’s 2022 Outstanding Healthcare Leadership Award.
I was fortunate to meet with Tammie at The Stanford WellMD CWO course in 2022 and she has been instrumental in continuing our alumni group's connection facilitating regular peer mentoring sessions.
In this episode we discuss her own story of severe burnout and depression and progress towards a place of thriving and leading change in clinician wellbeing. Our conversation revisits and develops past podcast topics including values and values alignment, identity, setting boundaries, personal and professional wellbeing and fulfillment, clinician coaching and leadership development.
Tammie describes the investment, support and collaborative work that drives her organisational wellbeing leadership role.
Season 4 will have a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship and as recent recipient of several awards for her work in these areas, Tammie shares her learning and experience to date. I am inspired and encouraged, thank you Tammie.
Links/References:More about Dr Tammie Chang MDTEDx TalkWomen Doctors are Struggling in Silencehttps://youtu.be/p9ytQa_hW70
Websiteswww.tammiechangmd.com
www.pinkcoatmd.com
Social Media
IG: @tammiechangmd and @pinkcoat_md
Twitter: @tammiechangmd and @pinkcoat_md
FB: tammiechangmd and PinkCoatMD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammie-chang-md-254821195/
Please see links for doctors in distress Australasia in show notes of this past episode :
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000499606952
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In this season 3 round up I reflect on the podcast journey to date and celebrate the rich and growing community and content. Leadership and leading change in clinician wellbeing were overarching themes this season. The Stanford WellMD conceptual model of professional fulfilment (https://wellmd.stanford.edu/about/model-external.html) provides a good framework and lens to view this season's conversations relating to wider organisational and systems efficiency, high performing teams and building positive inclusive cultures of wellbeing, and individual tools, skills and supports. Thank you to the incredible guests who have generously donated their time and expertise to contribute to the podcast and thanks for listening, sharing and helping to grow this community. My word for this year is POSSIBILITY and I see it everywhere. I look forward to joining you for Season 4 and more great guest content, conversations, collaboration and connection. Thanks Cheryl
"Do the best you can until you know better.Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton
Links/ references:Top episode downloaded in S3
Leading Organisational Change in Clinician Wellbeing with Dr Joanna Sinclair
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/10904210Wellness - centred leadership
Shanafelt T, Trockel M, Rodriguez A, Logan D. Wellness-Centered Leadership: Equipping Health Care Leaders to Cultivate Physician Well-Being and Professional Fulfillment. Acad Med. 2021 May 1;96(5):641-651. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003907. PMID: 33394666; PMCID: PMC8078125.Podcast recommendations :The Revitalizing Doctor https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1971016.rss
Being Better Together Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/being-better-together/id1603984431
The Emergency Mind Podcast
https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast
Doctor NOS
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1834712.rss
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In S 3 E 11 I am delighted to welcome Associate Professor Rhea Liang to the podcast. Rhea is a general and breast surgeon, surgical educator, and diversity advocate. She is Surgical Discipline Lead and Clinical Sub-Dean at Bond University, and notably she is the immediate past Chair of the RACS Operate With Respect education committee.
A third of medical trainees report that they have experienced or witnessed workplace bullying or harassment, including racism in 2021 according to the AHPRA annual Medical Training Survey. After a sentinel event in 2015 RACS launched Building Respect. In this conversation we delve into the nuts and bolts of what it actually takes in terms of planning, investment, resources, expertise and supports to role out a strategy and system designed to change culture.
Rhea gives wonderful insights from her international learning and experience across disciplines and industries designing and implementing change in complex systems. The conversation zooms in and out from big picture systems thinking to on the ground clinician experience, from the professional to the personal and from the logistics of process to the truly practical. Rhea explains the mechanics of having peer " cup of coffee" conversations to address disrespectful behaviours, the evidence-base behind this work and some real world examples. She breaks down her very practical 5 step tool for helping medical students and doctors in training to build skills to address micro-aggressions and micro-inequities in the moment.
We discuss her own career journey experience, opportunities and challenges and her powerful drive, purpose and passion as a clinical champion and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion permeates this entire conversation. I left uplifted and very inspired by the thoughtful, intelligent and brilliant clinician.
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better"
Maya Angelou
Reference / Links :
Dr Rhea Liang Twitter @LiangRhea.
Research in Diversity
Liang R, Dornan T, Nestel D. Why do women leave surgical training? A qualitative and feminist study. Lancet. 2019 Feb 9;393(10171):541-549. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32612-6. PMID: 30739689.
RACS Operating with Respect and Building Respect Strategic Plan https://www.surgeons.org/about-racs/about-respect/what-we-are-doing
Podcasts with Rhea
Dr Matt and Dr Mike's Medical Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-it-takes-to-be-a-surgeon-with-dr-rhea-liang/id1270681468?i=1000540825239
The Theatre RCSE 1/4 part series with Dr Rhea Liang and Dr Simon Fleming
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IQdrxQW63FmnRbWoIlhnQ?si=oAi6lcMtQJmztyjx6oaLCA
Cheryl's Podcast Recommendation of the month
Dare to Lead with Brene Brown and Dr Linda Hill on Leading with purpose in the digital age
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Qem4GKIW1hLgPtQCWmFmZ
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S3 E10 I am delighted to welcome the dream team behind the South Australian branch of Doctors' Health and the upcoming Australasian Doctors' Health Conference 2022 in Adelaide December 1-3, Dr Roger Sexton and Kiara Cannizzaro.
Roger MBBS (Adel), DRCOG(UK), FRACGP, FACRRM, MBA (Adel), FAICD was appointed part-time Medical Director of Doctors' Health SA in 2010. He has been a rural procedural GP for over 35 years. Roger is a past member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (2010-2013) and former board director NPS MedicineWise, and he was the last Presiding Member of the Medical Board of SA in 2010. He is Vice Chair of the national medical indemnity provider MIGA, Chair of its Clinical Risk Committee and member of its Claims Committee. He has a long-standing interest in doctors’ health and medical education, having played a major role in establishing both the rural doctors’ Dr DOC program in early 1999 and the Doctors’ Health SA Program in 2010 and the Doctors' Health NT program in 2016.
Kiara DHSA Programme Manager and Company Secretary commenced with DHSA in 2016, re-connecting with the doctors’ health program having worked with Medical Director, Dr Sexton, on the original Dr Doc program in 2000 – 2004, at Rural Doctors Workforce Agency. She has worked in the health and medical sector for the past 30 years in South Australia and the Northern Territory, and holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing). She believes that it is vital to look after the very people that look after the health of our communities and brings extensive experience in establishing rural health services and mental health services; stakeholder engagement and relationship management; strategic communications; marketing; program and administration management.
In this wonderful conversation Kiara and Roger tell me about the origins and evolution of their work together advocating, compassionately agitating and most importantly listening and taking action for Doctors' Health. True trailblazers in this space in the 1990s they have continued, as Kiara aptly describes, to "pound the pavement and build relationships".
They discuss their vision for the upcoming Australasian Doctors' Health conference, which is set to be one of the biggest yet, and what participants can expect at the event. The event will host experts from Australasia and Internationally exploring Doctors' health, wellbeing and professional fulfilment at individual, team and unit through to system and organisational levels. We can expect opportunities to make rich connections and celebrate our creative sides. Conference website and registration details listed below. I look forward to meeting many of you in person in Adelaide December 1-3!
Links /References:
DHSA
http://doctorshealthsa.com.au/about-us/our-staff
Drs4drs
https://www.drs4drs.com.au
Australasian Doctor's Health Conference 2022 website
https://adhc.doctorshealthsa.com.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S3 E9 I am delighted to welcome Dr Daniel Murphy, MD to the podcast. Dr Murphy is a Professor of Pediatrics(Cardiology),Emeritus . He is the co-Director, Department Wellbeing Directors Council and the Course Director, Stanford WellMD Physician Well-being Director Course at Stanford University School of Medicine. Our paths first crossed when I was a participant on the Stanford Wellbeing Directors course in 2021. After this virtual meeting I was delighted to be able to meet him in person this year at the CWO course and learn more about him and his leadership work at the WellMD Center.
Dan has been affiliated with the WellMD Center since its inception, working primarily with the Department WellBeing Directors. He is a member of the Clinician Wellness Working Group of the American College of Cardiology. He also remains involved in clinical quality and process improvement at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
In this conversation we discuss in more detail the Stanford conceptual model of professional fulfilment, exploring each of the domains ( The Individual, Culture of Wellness and Efficiency of Practice) with a leadership and Wellbeing 2.0 lens.
Dan tells me about his own experiences of cultivating a mindfulness and self-compassion practice. We explore team culture from a leadership perspective, how to build coalitions in healthcare and the role and value of connections made through commensality groups.
With extensive experience, perspective and expertise in a number of clinical and non clinical leadership roles Dan shares practical wisdom, marrying both art and science, on what wellness-centred leadership looks like at its best. In their recent paper on this topic ( linked below) the WellMD team, emphasise three key prerequisites :
1.Care about People Always
2.Cultivate Individual and Team Relationships
3.Inspire Change
It is will be very evident to listeners that this is Dan's approach. I throughly enjoyed our conversation and know I will re-visit it several times gaining a new pearl, depth and perspective each time. Enjoy.
Links/ References:
Stanford WellMD Physician Wellbeing Directors' Course
https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/directors-course.html
Wellness-Centred Leadership Article. Shanafelt et al
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078125/pdf/acm-96-641.pdf
Mayo clinic Proceedings Landmark Paper Shanafelt and Noseworthy
Executive Leadership and Physician Wellbeing: Nine Organisational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)30625-5/pdf
The Registrar Dr Neela Janakiramanan
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-registrar-neela-janakiramanan/book/9781761066511.html
Australasian Doctor's Health Conference 2022
https://adhc.doctorshealthsa.com.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S3 E8 I am delighted to speak to Dr Adrian Plunkett, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Founder of the incredible Learning from Excellence ( LfE) platform about his work and the evolution of the platform to date. As testament to the global impact of the "philosophy, practice and social movement", he has created.
Additionally, I am equally delighted to introduce my Emergency Physician Colleague at Royal Hobart Hospital, Dr Ray Siauw. Ray is our co-DEMT and recipient of the 2018 ACEM Welling award for his work establishing the LEX platform inspired by Adrian's work at LfE. ( full Bios in episode)
This conversation is a wonderful testament to the power of momentum, inspiration and building coalitions and communities of practice to make positive change in healthcare.
Adrian and Ray discuss the practicalities and challenges of "making things happen" and organisational change and innovation in healthcare.
Adrian is also the co-host of the fabulous Being Better together podcast with Dr Chris Turner, founder of Civility Saves Lives, my guest in S3 E5( link below) and we continue our discussion of safety 2 thinking and practice in healthcare and the use and application of appreciation inquiry.
I was keen to discuss Adrian's past, present and planned future research work adding to the qualitative and qualitative evidence to support positive feedback and appreciative practice in healthcare.
I thoroughly enjoyed re-listening to this conversation and whilst acknowledging that we did perhaps only scratch the surface, there are undoubtedly pearls for pause and thought here I will return to again and again.
Links/references/resources discussed in this episode:
Learning From Excellence ( LfE) website and platform:
https://learningfromexcellence.com
The Mind Full Medic Podcast with Dr Chris Turner
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/10743593-the-impact-of-behaviour-on-individual-and-team-performance-and-why-civility-can-save-lives-in-healthcare-with-dr-chris-turner.mp3?download=true
Being Better Together Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/being-better-together/id1603984431?i=1000549511577
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/being-better-together/id1603984431?i=1000553324059
Dr Adrian Plunkett on Lfe SMACC Dublin 2017https://smacc.net.au/2017/02/learning-from-excellence/
Dr Ray Siauw ACEM wellbeing award video 2018
https://acem.org.au/News/July/A-Ray-of-Sunshine
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
"Nutrition in medicine is a human factors issue" Dr Maryam Makowski
In S3 E 7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Maryam S. Makowski, Ph.D., FACN, NBC-HWC to the podcast. Dr Makowski is a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Associate Director of Scholarship and Health Promotion of the Stanford Medicine WellMD & WellPhD Center, and a nutrition and physician well-being coach at Stanford University.
Prior to joining Stanford, she served as a scientific associate at Toronto General Hospital-University Health Network in Toronto, and as an advisor to Air Canada rouge pilots and cabin crew on optimal nutrition for fatigue mitigation. Over the course of her career, she has authored many highly cited scientific papers on nutrition and well-being.
In this conversation we discuss her career and research trajectory particularly looking at how nutrition, hydration and other lifestyle factors including how sleep might influence cognitive performance initially in pilots and most recently applying this to doctors and in healthcare. We discuss in more details what Maryam refers to as the four pillars: hydration, meal composition and timing and strategic use of caffeine and how we might optimise these and mitigate shift work related fatigue, We discuss the specific challenges and barriers to these that doctors encounter in their practice. Maryam describes the complex interplay of nutrition and hydration with stress, sleep and mood/cognitive performance.
Whilst acknowledging the growing research evidence is increasingly substantive in this area it is not conclusive and no one size fits all. Knowledge of circadian rhythms and individual thresholds is essential in tailoring interventions and strategies discussed.
I find Maryam's work fascinating, highly relevant and am impressed by the organisational change her team have been able to advocate for on the back of research. I encourage you to think about you own approaches and how you might optimise these and also advocate for you colleagues in your own place of work.
References / Links:
Dr Maryam Makowski - research links
https://twitter.com/maryammakowski?lang=en
https://pmj.bmj.com/content/92/1090/478.short
- Makowski MS, Trockel MT, Menon NK, Wang H, Katznelson L, Shanafelt TD. Performance Nutrition for Physician Trainees Working Overnight Shifts: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Acad Med. 2022 Mar 1;97(3):426-435. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004509. PMID: 34753859.
- Makowski MS, Shanafelt TD, Hausel A, Bohman BD, Roberts R, Trockel MT. Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Sleep-Related Impairment in a Cohort of Community Physicians: A Cross-sectional Study. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2019 Sep 10;15(6):644-652. doi: 10.1177/1559827619871923. PMID: 34916885; PMCID: PMC866989
Recommended Reads:
Feeling Great David D Burns MD
https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/E0B7C5D5-CD14-405B-BD0A-253F8D94A3B4?channel=db-website
Brain Changer Felice Jacka
https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760556518/
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome to this very special mash up podcast edition with my previous guests Dr Andrea Austin MD and Dr Dan Dworkis MD on RECOVERY.
*Dr Dan Dworkis MD Emergency Physician Host of The Emergency Mind Podcast and Author of The Emergency Mind book ( full bio S2E8)
Dr Andrea Austin MD Emergency Physician Simulation Educator and Host of The Revitalising Doctor Podcast. ( full bio S2E14)
"There is no performance without recovery"*
This is part 2 of a three part series recorded across our podcasts with a focus on recovery.
In part 1 we explore "micro"-recovery and opportunities for brief and short term recovery and reset 'in the moment' on shift. In this episode we look at what Dan has aptly termed "meso-recovery" discussing how we might approach recovery pre, post and between shifts to allow us to maintain and sustain our performance and our wellbeing. We discuss what this has looked like for us in the past, where we are at present and what it might look like at its best. I'm conscious I am speaking to relative experts in this space who have put significant time, energy, attention and intention into the "work" of recovery. I think despite this however all of us would concede this is still very much a work in progress.
Both Andrea and Dan have valuable perspective to share from their personal journeys to date and whilst we acknowledge that this is going to look slightly different for individuals, there are some great pearls, tools and strategies to take to your next run of days ON and OFF.
In the final part of the series we look at longer term cycles of "macro"-recovery in our approach to periodisation of work, play, rest and optimising performance, wellbeing and longevity of practice.
This recording and connecting with two incredible clinicians and now friends on their side of the planet, was a life highlight for me and this topic is Mind Full Medic Podcast core content. Enjoy!
Links :
Part 1 :
https://soundcloud.com/emergencymind/episode-65?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Part 3 :
https://therevitalizingdoctor.buzzsprout.com/1971016/10826506
Previous podcast episodes:
Dr Andrea Austin
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/9346577-falling-back-in-love-with-emergency-medicine-2-0-with-dr-andrea-austin.mp3?download=true
The Revitalizing Doctor Podcast
https://therevitalizingdoctor.buzzsprout.com
Dr Dan Dworkis
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/8711930-the-emergency-mind-applying-knowledge-under-pressure-with-dr-dan-dworkis.mp3?download=true
The Emergency Mind Podcast
https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome back to S3 E6. Returning further inspired, motivated and equipped with more knowledge, tools and specific training from my trip to California for Stanford's Chief Wellness Officer Course last month, I am delighted to speak to Dr Joanna Sinclair, a clinician leading the change and charge in organisational wellbeing in healthcare on this side of the planet.
Dr Sinclair is an Anaesthetist living and working in New Zealand with a career-long interest in doctors’ health and wellbeing. Since early 2020 she has been the Senior Medical Officer Wellbeing Lead at Counties Manukau Health, working with the Organisational Development Team, and is the hospital lead for the Health Roundtable Workforce Wellbeing Improvement Group. She works to improve the wellbeing of healthcare workers at an organisational level, and has been instrumental in bringing Schwartz Rounds to her organisation to further support staff and promote compassion in healthcare. Jo has undertaken additional training in coaching and mentoring, critical incident stress management, and communication. She is co-chair of the ANZCA Wellbeing Special Interest Group.
In this conversation we discuss why investing her time and energy in improving her colleagues' wellbeing has become a professional mission. Specifically we discuss :
- The role, scope and purpose of a wellbeing organisational clinical lead
- Building the business case and "buy in" to appoint this leadership role.
- The importance of local data to drive local solutions
- Bridging silos, "asking, listening and empowering" and building coalitions of colleagues
already doing great wellbeing work
Jo tells us about some of the initiatives, in their overarching strategy, which have worked well including Schwartz rounds, an initiative with focus on building community and cultivating self-compassion for all healthcare staff. I hope that much of her important work is no longer viewed as novel in the coming years as we embed these roles into our healthcare systems of the future. Clinician wellbeing is a key strategic priority and ultimately patient safety and care demands it.
Links/References/Further Reading:
Dr Joanna Sinclair
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-sinclair-92a8bb1b3
https://twitter.com/josinclanz
Books
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/we-are-all-perfectly-fine-jillian-horton?variant=39325418586146
Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
https://www.theschwartzcenter.org/programs/schwartz-rounds/
Health Round Table /Beamtree White Paper on Burnout
https://beamtree.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Inaugural-White-Paper-Addressing-Burnout.-Bringing-data-driven-solutions-care-and-hope-to-the-health-workforce.pdf
Stanford WellMD/PhD
https://wellmd.stanford.edu
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S 3 E 4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Chris Turner to the podcast. Dr Turner is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire in England. He is also the co-founder of Civility Saves Lives ( https://www.civilitysaveslives.com ) a grass roots organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the impact behaviour has on individuals, teams and organisations. He has given two TEDx talks on the impact of rudeness on teams and his work has resonated widely and globally. He is also the co-host of the podcast Being Better Together, a collaboration with the Learning from Excellence team (https://learningfromexcellence.com)
In this conversation Chris relays his own professional journey and experience as healthcare leader and a safety and quality lead. His story of a very challenging start to his consultant career, the powerful impact of a trusted mentor and critical friend, and the evolution of skills and expertise from this experience to his future work is powerful. He joins the dots in retrospect here.
He describes the spectrum of approaches to improving safety and quality and mitigating risk in the challenging, complex, every-changing healthcare environment. These span the traditional Safety I approach of focussing on what and why things go wrong through to the safety II approach ensuring as much as possible goes right.
His own work in this area focusses on the impact of behaviour on individuals teams and organisations. He explains the "science of civility" which forms the basis for much of this work. He emphasises that, with few exceptions, we do not set out to behave badly to each other and misunderstandings can arise when we "listen to be right not to do right"
He describes and explains his use of Appreciative Inquiry in his work more recently as a tool to engage colleagues and drive innovation and positive change.
Chris shares some great examples and lessons from his own leadership journey to date. I left this conversation with many pearls and with an optimistic resolve to remain curious, listen with intent to understand and start small but continue to dream big.
Links / References :
Civility Saves Lives
https://www.civilitysaveslives.com
The impact of Rudeness on Teams Dr Chris Turner TEDx Exeter
https://youtu.be/4RUIhjwCDO0
Being Better Together Podcast
https://www.civilitysaveslives.com/podcast
Learning From Excellence ( LEX)
https://learningfromexcellence.com
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
I interrupt a brief podcast hiatus from bonny Scotland to bring you some exciting information about a pilot mentoring project Mentor MD inspired by previous S3 podcast guest, Paediatric Emergency physician, clinical leader and coach, Dr Sarah Dalton and her coaching partner at Capstan Rita Holland. I am delighted for The Mind Full Medic podcast to support the pilot project and contribute as a mentor. You will recognise some previous incredible podcast guests in the mentor line up Dr Todd Fraser co-founder of the Osler platform, Dr Amandeep Hansra, co-founder of Creative Careers in Medicine and Dr Kim Hansen, Emergency Physician, Chair of the Emergency Medicine Foundation and Advancing women in Emergency Medicine committee. See links to previous episodes below.
The pilot will take place Friday June 3 2022 07:45-09:00 AEDT on a virtual platform.
In this short trailer episode listen to Dr Sarah Dalton describe the concept and idea behind Mentor MD and register using the link below. Regular podcast listeners will recognise many of the themes we may discuss. I look forward to joining some of you then!
Mentor MD brief
Twenty-four mentees are allocated to eight experienced and outstanding clinician mentors to address various challenges and opportunities across a range of interest areas including:
- Medical Podcasting
- Health Systems
- Health Data Analytics
- Clinical Entrepreneurs
- Being Well and Flourishing at Work
- Medical Leadership
- Career Transitions
- Transition to Retirement
- Clinician as Coach
- Quality & Safety
- Clinical Researcher/Academic
How to register for Mentor MD / More information:
https://events.humanitix.com/mentor-md
https://capstan.com.au/be-mentored/
Other Links references: Podcast Episodes with Mentor MD mentorsDr Amandeep Hansra
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/8616316
Dr Kim Hansen
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/4895300
Dr Todd Fraser
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/10064044
Friday June 3 2022 is also Crazy Socks 4 Docs Day
Find out more about this years' event here :
https://www.crazysocks4docs.com.au
Listen to my conversation in S2E4 with Dr Geoff TooGood ( founder of CRS4D)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/8360533
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not neces
In S3 E4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Mark Shapiro MD to the podcast.
Dr Shapiro is a Hospitalist in full time clinical practice in Sonoma Vally, California. He is board certified in internal medicine, attained in University of California, San Diego. He has a BA in history from University of California, Los Angeles and spent some time as a sports journalist as an undergraduate.
Notably he is the creator, producer and host of the fabulous Explore the Space Podcast, a show focused on bringing healthcare providers and consumers together through conversation with leaders across a diverse spectrum of disciplines, expertise and interests. Mark is also a TEDx speaker and delivered his first TEDx talk in March 2021 on using compliments as a lever in health care ( link below). Dr Shapiro is an active voice on Twitter, a fan of the TV show Ted Lasso and inspiration behind the #MedLasso movement. He is also an avid home coffee roaster and Peloton bike rider.
In this conversation Mark takes me on a ride of wit and wonder as we explore his own creative career in healthcare. We discuss his professional role as a hospitalist and the increasingly rarity and value of generalist skills in modern healthcare.
He tells me about his passion and purpose as a podcaster and inspiration behind the Explore the Space show and arc of the podcast to date. With his obvious talent as a podcaster and a background in sports journalism, I am keen to glean tips and explore his own thoughts on the place for media training in medicine.
We discuss the place of social media platforms in medicine and potential podcasting affords to create connection, community and forge friendships in challenging times. I am particularly interested to hear about the momentum and inspiration behind the #medlasso movement which has gained considerable traction in our healthcare community.
Mark discusses his TEDx experience and talk on using compliments as a lever in medicine.
This conversation takes some delightful side trails into endurance running, the art and science of coffee roasting and why #medgrind has gained traction.
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and did feel I was getting some "coach Shapiro" schooling in the art of podcasting and rhetoric. Enjoy!
More about Dr Mark Shapiro :TEDx Talk 2021
https://youtu.be/NMCsoYJ1b6k
Explore the Space Show :
https://www.explorethespaceshow.com
https://www.instagram.com/explorethespaceshow
https://twitter.com/ETSshow
Other links references:
Learning from excellence
https://learningfromexcellence.com
Civility saves lives
https://www.civilitysaveslives.com
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S3 E 3 I am delighted to welcome Lincoln Quilliam to the podcast. Lincoln is a Civil Engineer and Project Manager with a passion for adventure, travel and innovation. He is the Founder and Race director of the Kunyani Mountain Run, Run director at the Kunyani Trail Series, Owner of Trail Ventures and Vice President at the Tasmanian Trail Running Association. He is a recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship Tasmania and a previous graduate of the Tasmanian Leaders I- Lead programme.
In this conversation we discuss his leadership journey and various roles in the Tasmanian trail running community. Lincoln speaks about his upcoming inaugural event the Kunyani Mountain Run in Hobart. He tells us about the journey of KMR from its inception to the present date and I am interested to how and why he has succeeded where others have stumbled. He reflects on his professional skill set and training and experience to date, which have assisted in bringing a team of local stakeholders and dedicated volunteers, including, fellow running enthusiasts, together to make this event happen.
In particular I am also keen to explore his passion and deep respect for his birth city and local land and the various ways he has helped to cultivate community and connection to the trails.
Lincoln has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship and will finally venture overseas in the second half of 2022, after pandemic-related travel setbacks, to study the global trail running scene in more depth. He hopes to return with new insights to help progress his vision for his local trail community in Tasmania.
I throughly enjoyed this conversation and an opportunity to speak about my beloved trail running. Lincoln could easily lead a public health campaign promoting the physical, mental and social benefits of getting out walking and running in natural settings with a group of fellow humans. There are many pearls and we revisit themes of purpose, leadership, and the importance of connection to people and place. Enjoy!
Links/References:
More about Lincoln:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincoln-quilliam
https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/lincoln-quilliam-tas-2020/
https://www.tasmanianleaders.org.au
https://www.facebook.com/trailventurestasmania/
The Kunyani Mountain Run:
https://www.kunanyimountain.run
The Kunyani Trail Series
https://kunanyitrailseries.com.au
Tasmania and Hobart Trail Running Groups:
https://www.facebook.com/T.T.R.asn/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/387764338070728/
Cheryl's Book Recommendations:
Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith
https://richardaskwith.co.uk/books/feet-in-the-clouds/
The Mountains are Calling, Jonny Muir
https://sandstonepress.com/books/the-mountains-are-calling
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S3E2 I am delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Dalton, B. Med MMgt (Hlth) FRACP GAICD, to the podcast. Dr Dalton is the Director of Clinical Engagement at eHealth NSW, a Paediatric Emergency Physician and a professional Coach offering services to health executives and clinical leaders through Capstan Partners in Sydney.
In this wonderful conversation we explore Sarah's clinical and non-clinical roles and career trajectory punctuated in her words with happenstance, curiosity and a determination to make things happen. Sarah has a long-standing interest in leadership development with a wealth of experience in systems leadership roles and we explore her leadership journey to date in the first part of the episode. She suggests that the most valuable lessons are to be learned on the job and also credits the opportunity to receive executive coaching herself early in her leadership career. We discuss definitions and styles of leadership, change management, imposter syndrome, embracing vulnerability and the incorporation of leadership skills, training and development into clinical training.
In the second part of the episode we explore her coaching journey from coachee to coach. I am interested in her perspective as both physician and coach. We discuss coaching for "positions and transitions" in medical careers, motivation, indentity and much more. Sarah discusses the The ABC framework ( Autonomy, Belonging and Contribution) of our core work needs in healthcare and the role of coaching can play to improve our wellbeing. Sarah tells about recent research work in collaboration with the Black Dog Institute on the value of short 30 minute coaching sessions for doctors. This conversation could easily translate to an entire podcast "Coaching Conversations with Dr Dalton", you read it here first. I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Sarah and look forward to many more in the future. Enjoy.
Contact Dr Dalton /Find out more about Coaching services/Physician Coaching Research Study :
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-dalton-64a25348/
https://capstan.com.au
https://capstan.com.au/our-research/
Other Links/ references discussed here:
Daniel Pink's Motivation Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc The ABC Frameworkhttps://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/courage-compassion-supporting-nurses-midwives HRT/Beamtree collaboration White Paper
https://www.healthroundtable.org/Join-Us/Thought-Leadership/Addressing-Burnout
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome back to Season 3 Episode 1. I am delighted to introduce Dr Todd Fraser. Todd is an Intensive care specialist and aeromedical retrieval physician currently living and working in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He has held director and senior leadership roles wearing both of these hats. Todd is also an experienced medical educator and supervisor of training. He is the co-founder of digital platform Osler Tech.
This conversation explores Dr Fraser's expertise and particular interests at the intersection between teaching, training and supervision, patient safety and clinical governance. We discuss his own career trajectory and journey to date, the inspiration and impetus which led him to co-found Osler several years ago and the evolution of the platform to date.
Familiar themes are revisited, including the art of our practice and teaching and training for technical and non-technical skills. I particularly found value in our discussion of longevity of practice and maintenance of skills and performance as specialist.
Todd shares his perspective as medical educator and supervisor and explores the role of the supervisor, utility of the portfolio, feedback and art of honest self-appraisal.
We discuss patient and clinician safety, risk and error and medicine, the sequelae of adverse outcomes and the role technology like Osler might have in future healthcare practice for organisations and individuals. I left this conversation with much to ponder for myself and my profession but hopeful for a future where we use smart and innovative technology to benefit our patients and each other.
Episode links/references:
Dr Todd Fraser
https://twitter.com/Sunnydoc72
https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-fraser-ab9a8925/
Osler Tech
https://oslercommunity.com
https://osler.app.link/yGBv7k3dtnb
https://osler.app.link/gMWAvRgaYgb
Rate/review/subscribe:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414
https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com
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Season 2 / 2021 wrap up. Thank you to listeners and our growing global community. Another opportunity to review the year and season that was and to give particular thanks to my incredible guests for generously and enthusiastically sharing their time, expertise and perspective. I am very proud of the space we are creating.
I discuss this paper by Dr Tait Shanafelt which articulates the future of sustaining the wellbeing, performance and longevity of practice of physicians.
Physician Well-being 2.0:Where are We and Where Are We Going?
Tait D. Shanafelt MD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.06.005
Wellbeing 2.0 is characterised in this article by :
Human Qualities
Vulnerability
Work-life integration
Self-compassion
Community
Meaning and Connection
These are themes which recur through season 1 and 2.
Top Reads :
1. The Emergency Mind Dr Dan Dworkis ( S 2 E 7)https://www.emergencymind.com/book 2.Emotional Female Dr Yumiko Kadota ( S 2 E 3) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/emotional-female-9781760894627 3.Emotional Agility Susan David ( as recommended by Dr Andrea Austin S2 E14)
4. Atomic Habits James Clear
5. The Fearless Organization Amy C Edmondson ( as discussed S2 E 15 with Dr Eve Purdy)
and hot off the press The Thriving Doctor Sharee Johnson ( S2 E 1 ) to add to your 2022 list :
https://learn.coachingfordoctors.net.au"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of theriver. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in"
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu This Season and episode is dedicated to the loving memory of Margaret Welsh 15th October 1929 - 23rd March 2021.
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In S2 E15 I am delighted to welcome Dr Eve Purdy to the podcast. Dr Purdy has a fascinating skill set as both Emergency Physician and Applied Anthropologist. She completed her emergency medicine residency in Kingston, Ontario in Canada whilst concurrently studying for her masters in anthropology in Utah. Today she combines her passion and expertise using her skills to research and evaluate culture and team dynamics in emergency medicine and resuscitation.
In the first half of this episode Eve introduces her research work and methods to explore the values, beliefs and practises defining culture in emergency medicine. I was first introduced to this through the video she produced "Welcome to the ED family". This resonated widely in our emergency medicine community and was inspired by research work using a simulated emergency department to produce an environment of "cultural compression" to study our core values, beliefs and defining practises in emergency medicine. I particularly like Eve's take that Emergency Medicine is well characterised as "navigating uncertainty together." We go on to discuss a second study, the subject of Eve's thesis, looking at trauma team dynamics using simulation and she summarises key findings and characteristics of high performing teams.
In the second part of the conversation Eve tells me more about her work on cultivating psychologically safe teams in medicine. She explores the what, why and how of psychological safety in clinical settings. Eve highlights the importance of small moments and opportunities throughout our working day to optimise safety for staff ( the means) and ultimately positively impact quality of care for our patients ( the goal). Such moments include the team huddle, after-action review and onus on senior clinicians to set the tone. I left our conversation with some very practical and actionable strategies and pearls to take to the clinical floor tomorrow.
I learned a lot from Eve and look forward to following future applied research from Dr Purdy and her team. Enjoy!
More about Dr Purdy:
https://www.evepurdy.info https://twitter.com/purdy_eve
Research links and other references:
Welcome to the ED Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasElDEGxKA
Identifying and Transmitting the Culture of Emergency Medicine Through Simulationhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aet2.10325 Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care.https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/bmjqir/9/1/e000749.full.pdfBook recommendations/further reading:
http://danielcoyle.com/the-culture-code/
https://www.triballeadership.net
https://www.amazon.com.au/High-Performance-Healthcare-Relationships-Efficiency-ebook/dp/B002CBF1YK
https://fearlessorganization.comRate, review, subscribe:
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In S2 E14 I am delighted to welcome Dr Andrea Austin MD, FACEP, FAAEM, CHSE to the podcast. Dr Austin is an Emergency Physician and Simulation educator based in Southern California. She graduated medical school from the University of Iowa and completed her emergency medicine residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego ( NMCSD) Dr Austin was the first female emergency physician to be stationed at Navy Trauma Training Center ( NTTC) at LA County + USC, one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States. As the emergency medicine physician and simulation director at NTTC, she trained hundreds of military medical personnel in the latest trauma advances to prepare them to provide medical care in austere environments. In 2016 she deployed to Iraq as part of a Shock Trauma Platoon. Andrea will also be familiar to many listeners as the co-host of The Emergency Mind podcast with previous guest Dr Dan Dworkis. Her voice has kept me and many anchored through this challenging time. Her most recent endeavour the Revitalize Women Physician Circle combines her experience with executive coaching, mentoring and leadership development.
Dr Austin makes active, meaningful contributions to a number of key areas of medical practice including medical simulation education and training, military medicine, veterans’ health, equity in medicine and female leadership, mentoring and advancing physician and healthcare worker wellbeing conversations and strategy.
In this conversation Andrea allows me to explore her professional and personal journey wearing these hats. This conversation spans simulation as teaching tool, female leadership, coaching and mentoring through finding her voice as a podcast host. Specifically, she reflects on her own experiences of career burnout, the role coaching has played in helping her to determine and align her values in the workplace to ultimately cultivate sustainable career satisfaction. Regular listeners will be familiar with many of the themes we discuss and Andrea gives truly valuable perspective.
Andrea first introduced me to Ted Lasso and the #Medlasso movement inspired by Dr Mark Shapiro from the Explore the Space Podcast and no discussion of leadership and team culture would be complete without some #medlasso critique!
Contact /Links/References:
Dr Andrea Austin
https://www.andreaaustinmd.com
https://twitter.com/EMSimGal
Revitalize Women Physician Circle https://www.peoplealwayshcc.com/revitalize
Podcasts
https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast
https://feminem.org/women-in-medicine/
https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(17)30059-8/fulltext
https://www.susandavid.com/about-emotional-agility
https://www.explorethespaceshow.com
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In S2 E13 I am delighted to welcome Melissa Clarke to the podcast. Melissa is a political reporter with the ABC, working at Parliament House in Canberra. It’s a job she has had, with a few interludes, for more than a decade. She reports on politics, parliament and national affairs across a range of radio and television programs, as well as ABC digital news site. Melissa’s reporting experience spans beyond politics though, having been a foreign correspondent based at the ABC London bureau, reporting from Pacific nations, and reporting in-depth on issues including the environment, national security and justice - and the occasional bushfire. Away from the work, Melissa is a dedicated runner who has experienced a brief period of success at the high performance level, but has had a lifelong passion for running, endurance challenges and the great outdoors.
In this conversation we discuss and explore Melissa's work as a reporter and I draw some parallels with my own profession and day-to-day work in the emergency department, particularly with respect to the need to respond to ever-changing circumstances and crises.
As both doctor and amateur podcaster, I was keen to glean some tips from an expert on interview skills and communicating under pressure.
Indeed through this conversation I found some additional parallels but also broadened the lens and perspective through which I viewed her role and indeed modern media more generally.
Melissa is an avid reader and we explore how she navigates the need to read widely and consume all forms of media as part of her work with both a professional and personal yearning to cultivate deeper work and reading.
Naturally as fellow runner and lover of endurance pursuits and the outdoors, we discuss her why of adventure racing and how she cultivates time and space for self-care outside a job which could be 24/7, if she let it.
Links/ references:
Melissa Clarke
Twitter @Clarke_Melissa
Dart Center for Journalism an Trauma
https://dartcenter.org
Melissa's recommenced reads:
We Were Not Men Campbell Mattinson
https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460713150/we-were-not-men/
Power without Glory Frank Hary
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/power-without-glory-9781741667615
Why Die? The extraordinary Percy Cerutty maker of champions
https://www.percy-cerutty.com
Sky Runner Emelie Forsberg
https://www.emelieforsberg.com
The Secret Race Tyler Hamilton
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-secret-race-9780552169172
What I talk about when I talk about running Haruki Murakami https://www.harukimurakami.com/book/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-a-memoir
Endure Alex Hutchison
https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/endure-by-alex-hutchinson-9780008308186
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In S2E12 I am delighted to welcome Dr Alice McNamara and Dr Charlotte Durand to the podcast.
Alice is sport and exercise medicine registrar in Melbourne, Australia. She is also a dual world champion rower with over a decade of experience on the Australian women’s rowing team. She qualified for the lightweight women’s double for the London Olympic Games and attended the Beijing games as an alternate.
(Full Bio in episode. )
Charlotte is an emergency registrar working in Darwin, NT. She is also a triathlete and competed for Australia in the 2018 ITU world triathlon finals. (Again full bio in episode.)
In this conversation we discuss their respective backgrounds and careers to date in both sport and medicine and use as a platform to explore the themes of optimising performance and supporting wellbeing for doctors ( and indeed anyone looking to do this in their life). Alice and Charlotte use their experiences in sport and apply the performance lens to their medical training. They cover periodisation, deliberate practice, visualisation, coaching and mentoring and setting boundaries and recovery goals, topics familiar to listeners to this podcast. We explore parallels, similarities and differences between the athlete and doctor-in-training experience. Alice explains the concepts of physiological overreaching and the pathological overtraining syndrome and we compare and contrast to the profession syndrome of burnout.
In the second half of the conversation Alice speaks about her research with the AIS exploring female athlete heath and we discuss the Relative Energy Deficit in Sport ( RED-S), introducing concepts of energy availability in both female and male athletes, elite and recreational. This leads on to a more general conversation about fuelling and hydration for shift work and attention to self care and basic needs at work in the clinical environment.
The central themes of performance and wellbeing weave through this entirely of this conversation and both Alice and Charlotte share valuable perspective including many pearls and takeaways from their considerable experience and expertise.
I learned a lot from this conversation and it is a joy to listen to Alice and Charlotte share their authentic lived experience of performing and integrating sport, work and life as both athletes and doctors with a medical and sports science and psychology framework.
References and links :
Dr Alice McNamara
https://twitter.com/alice_mac6
https://www.instagram.com/_alice_mac/
Australian Institute of Sport FPHI website :
:Female Performance & Health Initiative | Australian Institute of Sport
ais.gov.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/11/687.long
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33065594/
Dr Charlotte Durand
https://www.instagram.com/chardurand/
https://twitter.com/char_durand
https://www.acemprimarypodcast.com
Ted Lasso and #medlasso Dr Mark Shapiro MD Into the Space Podcast
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In episode 11 Season 2 I'm delighted to welcome Luke Pryor BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin), MAPS. Luke is a clinical psychologist based in Queensland. He is also an impressive ultra runner.
Luke has a background in human movement, sports and exercise science and has worked with elite and recreational athletes and teams. He found himself increasingly drawn to the mental aspects of performance which led him to undertake extensive further training leading to a Masters in Clinical Psychology in 2012. Over the past decade Luke has worked in public and private practice and has experience in several areas including anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and sports psychology and performance. Luke uses evidence-based therapies including cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing and has particular interests in compassion focused therapy and mindfulness, which we discuss here.
His professional background and interests make him very well placed to work with runners, athletes and individuals aiming to get and stay active, providing assistance with the mental and psychological aspects of the their sport, health, and exercise and performance.
Most recently Luke and his partner Kara Landells, who is strength and conditioning coach, have combined expertise and their passions for trail running hosting Resilient Runner Retreats.
In this conversation Luke takes us on his professional journey to date. He describes the challenges of working as a mental health clinician through a global pandemic, a time when our collective stress and anxiety has increased and his services have never been more in demand. Luke discusses the practises, tools and advice he has prioritised for his clients and patients through this period. We explore self-compassion and mindfulness based strategies and a practical approach to self-care in challenging times.
In the second half of the conversation we discuss Luke's why, where and what of running and explore the mental aspects of running and sporting performance. Luke uses running as a metaphor for life and we visit topics including motivation, self-awareness, identity, purpose and authenticity. It is perhaps no surprise that runners attending the resilient runner retreats come away feeling they have explored much more than their sport. I throughly enjoyed our conversation and am looking forward to attending a future weekend!
Find our more about about Luke Pryor :
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-pryor-48b28176/
https://www.instagram.com/littlemadrunner/
Resilient Runner Retreats:
https://linktr.ee/pryorl/
Other Links discussed here :
Mindful Self-compassion Kristen Neff
https://self-compassion.orghttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/resilience-project-from-page-to-podcast-to-home-school/id1513559414?i=1000513818626Dr Sophia Shih's Bruny Island Tiny Home: read an article about this idyllic escape with air bnb and video tour link noted at the end.
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations. The podcast host declares that there are no conflicts of interest.
In S 2 E 10 I am delighted to welcome Dr Brendon Stubbs BSc ( Hons) Physiotherapy Msc ( Neuro-rehabilitation ),PhD( Pain Medicine and Rehab) .
Dr Stubbs is a clinical-academic researcher with main interests in physical activity and mental health, ageing and meta-research. He has a fascinating skill set as both clinician and practising mental health physiotherapist and leading researcher nationally and internationally on the role of physical activity and movement in prevention and adjunctive treatment for mental health and wellbeing. He works with collaborators world wide and has published over 500 academic papers in leading journals across multiple scientific fields.
I first listened to Brendon on another podcast and was fascinated by his work and translational research to help clinicians and patients in clinical practice.
In this conversation Brendon speaks about his own career journey to date. He summarises his encyclopaedic knowledge on this topic of movement and physical activity for our mental wellbeing looking at prevention, adjective treatment in the common mental health disorders and the underpinning neurobiological, genetic and psychosocial factors contributing to why movement is such a powerful tool. Brendon refers to the magic of movement and we learn how it can quite literally change our brain.
As both academic researcher and practising clinician, Brendon is very familiar with the challenges of, not only, doing high quality research in his field, but also in translating this into practice. He shares some practical applications and advice for clinicians, patients and indeed all of us looking to incorporate more movement into our lives.
We discuss the current recommendations for movement physical and mental health and how less can be more particularly getting started. I throughly enjoyed this conversation and encourage you to follow Brendon and his work on the links discussed here and listed below.
More about Dr Brendon Stubbs and key links :
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/brendon-stubbs
https://twitter.com/brendonstubbs
https://www.instagram.com/brendon.stubbs/
Book: Exercise Based Interventions for Mental Illness by Dr Brendon Stubbs and Dr Simon Rosenbaum
https://www.elsevier.com/books/exercise-based-interventions-for-mental-illness/stubbs/978-0-12-812605-9
Other Links :
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-joy-of-movement-9780525534129
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In S2 E 9 I am delighted to introduce Dr Rachel Beanland MBChB MPH FFPH. Rachel is a public health clinician and independent consultant and health advisor. Originally from the UK, and with two decades of experience working in the areas of infectious diseases and public health, Rachel now works and lives in France. She is a passion advocate for work to reduce health inequalities for populations, communities and individuals and empowering others to live and work more consciously.
In her personal quest to be the conscious creator of her life and career, Rachel now combines her public health work with a number of other "hats". She is host of The Authentic Tea podcast. In her podcast Rachel has engaging conversations with women in medicine to explore how they consciously find ways to live more mindfully and be their authentic selves. In her podcast Rachel discusses her journey of personal empowerment and to find her own true voice. Rachel is also a yoga and meditation teacher and now shares her offerings on the Resilience Yoga platform.
In this episode Rachel shares her own professional and personal journey to date and her motivations to take the road less travelled in her career. We discuss the importance of her specialist training during a global pandemic and the experience afforded at this time.
We explore her relationship with yoga, her teaching journey to date and they ways she is now sharing her skills and training with her community and colleagues.
Finally this inspiring and thoughtful physician and yogi shares some insightful perspective on definitions of health and wellbeing. Rachel believes we all have the potential to improve our own health and the health of our communities and the world around us.
Dr Rachel Beanland:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-beanland-58211748/
Links to Resilience Yoga platform and The Authentic Tea Podcast :
https://www.resilienceyoga.fr
https://www.resilienceyoga.fr/podcast-authentictea
Other references / links discussed here:
Kirbanu Voice trainer and voice empowerment coach https://kirbanu.com/Wild Fermentation The flavor, nutrition and craft of live – culture foods Sandor Ellix Katz
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In S 2 E 8 I am delighted to speak to Dr Dan Dworkis MD PhD FACEP. Dan is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at LAC and USC and is based in Santa Monica, California. He is notably the founder, creator and inspiration behind the Emergency Mind Podcast http://bit.ly/emindpod and most recently the Emergency Mind book http://bit.ly/emindbook.
In this episode I have the opportunity to delve into his emergency mind.
We discuss the evolution of his own journey as an Emergency physician and his passion for the subject of application of knowledge under pressure and how we might seek to improve this as any learned skill.
In the Emergency Mind podcast Dan explores this, taking experience and examples from experts in the ER and other fields and disciplines. This has allowed him overtime to develop mental models and cognitive frameworks that we might use and apply ourselves. In this conversation Dan explores some of the concepts, as relayed in the book in more detail. ( Sangfroid, Wabi-Sabi, Train your Tired Moves, Humans not Robots) He uses his own pursuit of mastery and love of martial arts as an example to demonstrate the application and art of practice in performance science and psychology.
This is the book he wishes he had had as a trainee emergency physician but I feel it has continued applicability across the professional journey and indeed in general as we seek to improve our ability to respond to the challenges of our lives.
"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
Bruce Lee
Links to the Emergency Mind:
https://twitter.com/TheEmergMind
https://www.emergencymind.com
Book: http://bit.ly/emindbook
Podcast: http://bit.ly/emindpod
The Mind Full Medic Podcast website :
https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com
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Welcome back to Season 2 Episode 7. In this episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Amandeep Hansra to the podcast.
Dr Hansra is a practicing GP in Sydney and a leader in digital health and telehealth in Australia. She is a director of Caligo Health. She was the first CEO & Medical Director of Telstra’s telemedicine business, ReadyCare and also served as the Chief Medical Officer for Telstra Health. Amandeep works as an advisor to many digital health companies and sits on a number of committees and boards with organisations such as the Australian Medical Association, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, NPS Medicinewise and the Australian Institute of Digital Health as well as being a Clinical Reference Lead for the Australian Digital Health Agency. She holds a Master’s in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is a Graduate of the AICD and was awarded the “Women Leading in Business Scholarship” for the Global Executive MBA at the University of Sydney.
In addition to this impressive bio Amandeep is also the founder of Creative Careers in Medicine. CCIM is growing community of now over 11 k doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who think outside the square. The platform provides information, education, opportunities and discussion of alternative career paths, side hustles and niche areas both within and outside medicine. The successful inaugural CCIM conference was held online in 2020.
In this episode we discuss her own fascinating and diverse career and the trajectory which led to her finding niche and expertise in digital health. Amandeep tells me about her experience as an expert through the past 12 months of the current pandemic when telemedicine has been thrust into the spotlight and has emerged as a future essential healthcare technology.
Amandeep talks about the inspiration and impetus behind Creative Careers in Medicine, why she thinks there is such an appetite for the platform and the powerful impact this growing community of health professionals has had to date as a supportive and safe space to connect and share stories and information.
CCIM are again hosting the Crazy Socks 4 Docs webinar June 4 2021 ( link to register below) and she tells me why it was so important for them to get involved.
We discuss the upcoming CCIM conference planned for November 5-7th in Sydney and the success of last year's inaugural virtual event.
As a passionate, engaging and undoubtedly "busy" doctor and mother Amandeep shares her personal strategies, values and goals for work-life integration and is really testament to the adage "Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life" Thank you Amandeep.
Links discussed in this episode:
CCIM
https://creativecareersinmedicine.com
https://www.instagram.com/creativecareersinmed/
https://www.facebook.com/CreativeCareersInMed/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-careers-in-medicine/people/
https://twitter.com/CCIM_official/
CRS4Docs webinar 7.45am to 9am Friday June 4 2021
Register for the webinar Register for the webinar https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_APhC5WrvSM6bd7Ot2bF0Sg
My conversation with Dr Geoff Toogood S2 E4 :
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/8360533
other links :
https://youtu.be/2Ss78LfY3nE
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In this episode I am delighted to introduce Tal Brown CEO and Co-founder at Zone7. Tal has a background in computer science and systems engineering and began his career as a big data engineer in the Israel Defense Force. He subsequently became a senior director of product management at Salesforce where he founded the organisation's first AI product team responsible for data science applications used by millions of sales professionals.
Since 2017 at Zone 7 he has been developing and and applying proprietary artificial intelligence to assist athletes, coaches and medical teams forecast injury risk and attain peak performance. More recently the focus has expanded to include other disciplines outside sport, including healthcare and the military, where machine learning tools could be used to assist in optimising performance and protecting the wellbeing of the workforce.
In this conversation Tal breaksdown what artificial intelligence actually is and discusses its use to date in the elite and amateur sporting environment. We then discuss what this might look like when applied to other elite workers and professional environments with a particular emphasis on healthcare where early adopters are starting to use and apply this technology.
Themes of workforce performance , wellbeing and increasing rates of exhaustion and burnout are revisited through a technical lens. Ironically I left this conversation feeling that a role for objectivity might actually be a constructive solution to increasing pressure and demand in the workplace where subjective and intuitive basic needs of workers are often overridden by virtue of environment and system.
We discuss data privacy and application for individuals, teams and organisations. Tal gives us an articulate account of his vision for the future of this agile and adaptable technology, which is informative not prescriptive, as a predictive tool to assist athletes and elite workers protecting health, performance and longevity of practice.
More about Tal Brown and Zone 7 :
ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talbrown/
https://zone7.ai
https://twitter.com/Zone7ai
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zone7ai/
Other related links discussed here:
*https://www.emergencymind.com/book
https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast/episode-37
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In episode 5 I am delighted to speak to Associate Professor Adrienne O' Neil. Adrienne is a behavioural scientist and director of Heart and Mind Research at IMPACT. For over a decade she has been researching the link between mental and cardiovascular health and particularly investigating the role lifestyle plays in the onset and outcomes of depression and cardiovascular disease. More recently she was appointed as deputy director of Food and Mood Centre at Deakin. She is one of the lead investigators in the landmark SMILEs trial which is one of the first clinical trials showing a positive adjunctive role for a dietary intervention in depression. As a behavioural scientist she has a particular interest in the translation of evidence into clinical practice and is part of an International Taskforce collaborating to produce guidelines on the implementation of lifestyle interventions in practice. In this episode we discuss her fascinating research including the SMILEs trial and current and future research and the implication and application for clinicians and patients. We discuss the challenges of lifestyle research and application and Adrienne particularly emphasises and discusses equity of provision of preventative and adjunctive lifestyle interventions for communities and individuals where resources are limited. We reference the work of Professor Felice Jacka Director of The Food and Mood Centre and author of Brain Changer and There's a zoo in my poo.
I left this conversation optimistic and energised and look forward to seeing where Adrienne and her team's research work leads in the near future.
More about Associate Professor Adrienne O'Neil:
https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/adrienne-oneil
Links and resources discussed in this episode:
https://foodandmoodcentre.com.au
https://foodandmoodcentre.com.au/smiles-trial/
https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760556518/
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Brain-Changer-Audiobook/1760786128
https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760783044/
https://www.booktopia.com.au/there-s-a-zoo-in-my-poo-felice-jacka/book/9781760783044.html
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I am delighted to welcome Dr Geoff Toogood. Geoff is a consultant cardiologist based in Victoria. In addition to his busy clinical role, he wears several other important hats. He is perhaps most known for his prominent advocacy work raising awareness and reducing stigma surrounding the mental health and wellbeing of health care professionals. He refers to himself as a "walk the talk" doctor. Indeed his willingness to very publicly share his own lived experience with significant periods of mental ill health in the past serve as a powerful tool to help others. I have referred to Geoff and his work on the podcast more than once now and it was great to hear more about his ambassador work with Beyond Blue and discuss his own important initiative Crazy Socks 4 Docs. We speak about this year's event and the work we still need to do in translating awareness into tangible change and action. Geoff articulates this well as the "missing middle" .
Geoff is also an impressive endurance swimmer and I was fascinated to hear more about his incredible feats and the influence this has had on his physical and mental wellbeing.
As this podcast space develops recurring themes emerge and the mutual and overlapping experiences of my guests are apparent. The power of lived experience, advocacy in action and courage we gain through connection are revisited here.
Although concluding we still have work to do, I left this conversation uplifted and with reaffirmed resolve. I look forward, one day, to reading Geoff's book.
More about Geoff and Crazy Socks 4 Docs and links discussed here:
https://www.crazysocks4docs.com.au
https://twitter.com/gdtoogood
https://masteringintensivecare.libsyn.com/episode-44-geoff-toogood-from-severe-depression-to-mental-health-advocacy-through-crazysocks4docs
For Doctors and Medical Students
https://drs4drs.com.au/getting-help/
In Victoria and Tasmania
https://vdhp.org.au/home/links
In Crisis Call 1300 374 377 ( 24/7 help line)
If you are not a Dr or Medical Student
Call Life line 13 11 14
https://www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue
https://beyondblue.org.au
HandnHand Peer Support for All Health Care Workers
https://handnhand.org.au
https://m.facebook.com/HandnHandAU/
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/ten/
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this Episode I am delighted to welcome Dr Yumiko Kadota to the podcast. Dr Kadota is a medical doctor with experience and training in plastic surgery, a lecturer and anatomy teacher to university undergraduates in Sydney, a yoga teacher, fitness instructor and most recently she added best selling author to her long list of accomplishments. In 2019 she wrote a blog post about her experiences of a toxic culture and inhumane rostering and workload in Sydney hospital as a plastic surgical trainee. She suffered from severe occupational burnout and subsequent clinical depression. In March 2021 she released her book and memoir "Emotional Female". In Emotional Female she describes her own experiences of mental health issues, racism, bullying, misogyny and sexual harassment during medical training.
In this conversation we discuss her story, systemic failure and toxic culture in medicine. We revisit themes of occupational burnout, stigma surrounding mental illness amongst medical professionals and what it means to have good health and wellbeing.
We discuss the creative process of writing and the importance of creative outlet for Yumiko. As a fellow yoga teacher, we discuss the role yoga has played in her self development and continues to have in her daily life.
Ultimately I feel grateful we are able to have this conversation "on the other side" of her experiences and that she is well and able to find "santosha" ( contentment ) in the space she now finds herself.
You can learn more about Dr Kadota here:
https://mindbodymiko.com/the-ugly-side-of-becoming-a-surgeon/
https://twitter.com/mindbodymiko
You can order Emotional Female here:
booktopia.kh4ffx.net/AdEzJ
If any of the topics discussed in this episode have affected you or a colleague /friend please reach out and /or access some of the resources linked here:
HandnHand Peer Support for All Health Care Workers
https://handnhand.org.au
https://m.facebook.com/HandnHandAU/
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/ten/
For Doctors and Medical Students
https://drs4drs.com.au/getting-help/
In Victoria and Tasmania
https://vdhp.org.au/home/links
In Crisis Call 1300 374 377 ( 24/7 help line)
If you are not a Dr or Medical Student
Call Life line 13 11 14
https://www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue
https://beyondblue.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this Episode I am delighted to welcome Mr Hugh Van Cuylenburg. Hugh wears many hats as teacher, athlete, author and mental health and wellbeing advocate but is most famous for founding The Resilience Project and as host of the very popular Imperfects Podcast.
In this conversation Hugh discusses his personal journey and story behind the Resilience Project, which from humble beginnings has now reached over 900 schools Australia wide. We discuss his work and the framework for the project surrounding the GEM principles of Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness. Hugh shares his experience and perspective and common themes and threads emerge for regular listeners here. We discuss the great strength in vulnerability, power of connection and importance of evidence based practice and collaboration in making positive cultural and systemic change.
As an enthusiastic amateur podcast host and huge fan of the Imperfects Podcast, which Hugh co-hosts with renowned comedian, actor and media personality Ryan Shelton, I indulge my personal passion for the power of podcasting to educate, encourage question, inspire and promote connection through shared experience. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and look forward to seeing The Resilience Project continue to grow and reach many more in our communities.
To find out more about Hugh and his work at The Resilience project and access the links
discussed here:
https://theresilienceproject.com.au
https://theresilienceproject.com.au/podcast/
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/The-Resilience-Project-Audiobook/1760893285
If any of the topics surrounding mental ill health discussed here have affected you or someone you know please reach out to your health professional and/or access the resources listed below:
www.beyondblue.org.au
www.lifeline.org.au 13 11 14
www.drs4drs.com.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Welcome back to Season 2. I'm delighted to open with an episode that weaves in and expands on many of the themes we discussed in the Season 1. Introducing the rather wonderful Sharee Johnson who is a leading coach of doctors here in Australia. Sharee combines her unique skill set and background in psychology, coaching and mindfulness to help doctors and health care professionals perform optimally maintaining good health and personal wellbeing not only in their clinical environments but in their lives as a whole. Her powerful personal experiences have shaped her vocation and career trajectory as she transitioned from patient advocate to also doctor advocate.
In this episode we discuss the relationships and distinctions between coaching, mentoring and counselling. We delve into the specifics of coaching for doctors asking why, when, where and how. We explore Sharee's coaching work with individuals and groups and the Recalibrate programme. Themes of doctor health and wellbeing and the prevention of burnout are revisited from her coaching perspective. You certainly don't need to be a doctor to find something of value in this conversation.
addendum: At 1.07.18 in this conversation we accidentally refer to coaching when the intention was to reference counselling.
Links discussed here and relevant contacts:
sharee@skjconsulting.com.au
www.shareejohnson.com.au
www.coachingfordoctors.net.au
www.gpgh.org
www.linkedin.com/in/sharee-johnson
https://www.coachingfordoctors.net.au/recalibrate-doctor-care-online/
https://coachingfederation.org
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2740206
Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD, Gill PR, Satele DV, West CP. Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med.2019;179(10):1406–1414. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2425
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)30625-5/abstract
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.10.004
Emotional Female Dr Yumiko Kadota booktopia.kh4ffx.net/AdEzJ
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
Season 1 wrap up a bit later than scripted! In this episode I summarise the season to date and incorporate some of my personal season highlights and plans for season 2. Thanks again to my amazing guests for giving so generously of their time to contribute to this space and community we are are creating and thanks to you all for listening and continuing to provide valuable and constructive feedback. Please keep it coming. After a brief hiatus the podcast will return with Season 2.
https://themindfullmedicpodcast.buzzsprout.com
Link to my interview about the podcast with Joe Smith FACEM consultant at Blugibbon:
https://lnkd.in/gfDAHyD **Links to the initiatives and podcasts I support and reference in this episode:
https://mrperfect.org.au/blogs/news/tagged/terry-cornick
https://creativecareersinmedicine.com
https://masteringintensivecare.libsyn.com
https://www.newnormalproject.com.au**Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I am delighted to speak to colleague and musician Dr Kristeen Barker. Dr Kristeen Barker is a Consultant Physician and Nephrologist in Melbourne, Australia. She is also a musician and performs under the artist name Freya Moor.
In this wonderful conversation Kristeen tells her own powerful story of finding joy and creative expression through her music and other creative endeavours and there role this has played in supporting and helping her to show up in her professional space healthier, happier and more engaged. We revisit themes of occupational burnout and compassion fatigue in medical training and Kristeen shares her own tolls, tips and tricks for self care and navigating the pursuit of expertise and sustainable practice.
This episode is a celebration of the power of music to not only sooth, heal and bring joy personally, but also to empower, educate and advocate on much wider scale.
You can find out more about this inspiring and engaging Doctor and Artist at:
https://kristeenbarker.thinkific.com
https://freyamoor.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEBAuys6Y
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In the penultimate episode of Season 1, I am honoured and delighted to speak with Dr Simon Judkins. Dr Judkins is an Emergency Physician based in Victoria, Australia. He is a highly regarded and well known member of the Emergency Medicine community, as a recent past President of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, and for his extensive involvement with ACEM and the AMA throughout his career to date. He is most recognised for his important advocacy work in areas including the management of mental health in the ED; access and equity in healthcare for indigenous populations, asylum seeker and other marginalised groups; and more recently the impacts of climate change on health and healthcare systems. Simon wears multiple hats as clinician, leader, mentor, teacher, author, husband and father and in this conversation we gain a unique glimpse into the mindset, motivation and drive of this exceptional Physician. We discuss the definitions of advocacy and navigating the spectrum between advocate and activist to make positive impact. Dr Judkins encourages us to "Get Involved, Be Brave" At the end of this most challenging year when most of us are exhausted and struggling to maintain momentum I left our conversation with hope and resolve and I know you will too.
References and links discussed in this episode can be foundhere :
https://www.croakey.org/step-up-be-brave-and-make-a-difference-powerful-calls-to-action-from-medical-leader/
https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/simon-judkins
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/11/2020-special-report-mja-lancet-countdown-health-and-climate-change-lessons
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I am delighted to speak to Psychiatrists Dr Kym Jenkins FRANZCP MBChB MPH MEd and Dr Tahnee Bridson MBBS BMedSci(Hons) about the Peer Support Initiative Hand-n-Hand they have introduced for all Health Care Workers in Australia and New Zealand this year.
Dr Jenkins is a consultant Psychiatrist and recent past President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has spent over a decade as Medical Director of the Victorian Doctors Health Programme. Dr Bridson is a Psychiatrist in training with the RANZCP and founder of Hand-n-Hand ( Helping Australian and New Zealand Doctors and Nurses). Both are passionate advocates and actively working to support and improve the mental, physical and emotional health of Healthcare Professionals.
In this episode we discuss Peer Support, what it is, what it isn't, how it works in practice and its role as a pre-clinical and thus preventative health intervention. The conversation progresses to a discussion of the challenges and stigma Medical Professionals face and the systemic and cultural conditions which can serve as barriers to accessing healthcare themselves. We reference the stark statistics of the incidence and prevalence of mental illness in doctors and medical students but also the great work that is being done by Drs Jenkins, Bridson and their colleagues. The COVID19 pandemic has given a spotlight to the challenges we face and it is my hope that this will continue to serve as an impetus to effect tangible and lasting change.
If you have been personally affected by any of the content in this episode or know of a colleague who could benefit from any of the resources we discuss and reference please access the links below. I would finally like to encourage you access the very valuable Hand-n-Hand website.
HandnHand Peer Support for All Health Care Workers
https://handnhand.org.au
https://m.facebook.com/HandnHandAU/
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/ten/
For Doctors and Medical Students
https://drs4drs.com.au/getting-help/
In Victoria and Tasmania
https://vdhp.org.au/home/links
In Crisis Call 1300 374 377 ( 24/7 help line)
If you are not a Dr or Medical Student
Call Life line 13 11 14
https://www.lifeline.org.au
Other resources:
Beyond Blue
https://beyondblue.org.au
R U OK
https://www.ruok.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
In this episode I chat to Veterinarian, Ultra runner and Adventurer Kirra Balmanno. We discuss her journey over recent years both professionally and personally. Kirra relates how the challenges of trying to be and do it all as Vet and Athlete early in her career led to a spiral of injury, set backs and burnout. She used these experiences as impetus to drive her ambition, sense of adventure and voyage into the unknown. This has led her on a life path which she previously could only dream of. Kirra describes her trail running and endurance feats as a microcosm of life, riding highs and enduring the lows. We discuss how she reconciles Kirra the studious, perfectionist professional with Kirra the spontaneous, adventure seeking explorer. We cover minimalism, what it means to be happy and the empowerment afforded when we push past physical and mental boundaries. In a year of adversity, challenge, and many lows Kirra reminds us that resilience and the ability to endure demands that we keep our sense of hope, spirit of adventure and continue to dare to dream big.
Learn more about Kirra and follow her adventures here:
Type Two Run https://www.typetworun.com/
“Breaking New Trails in the Caucasus” https://www.on-running.com/en-au/articles/outdoor-breaking-new-trails-in-the-caucasus-kirra-balmanno�On Running https://www.on-running.com/en-au/athletes/kirra-balmanno
Obakummen (Calming Down): A film by Lukas Dürnegger https://vimeo.com/lukasduernegger
Kirra Balmanno https://kirrabalmanno.com/
Fatmap - Trail running in the Caucasus mountains https://fatmap.com/guidebooks/1648/trail-running-in-the-caucasus-mountains?fmid=cp
In this episode I meet Dr Cliff Reid, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine and Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine, whose clinical practice has spanned both UK and Australia. For over a decade he has become most prominently known and regarded world wide for his passion for Medical Education and particular for his knowledge and teaching the art of practice and the broader facets of high performing individuals, teams and systems. In this conversation we explore his own professional journey to date, his mission as a clinician and medical educator and delve into human factors, leadership, communication, how to be lifelong learner and professional longevity in medicine. In this very candid conversation Cliff shares his own vulnerabilities on the professional continuum as we discuss the trajectory towards expertise and mastery. I'm delighted to have my book list replenished by the end of this conversation. I feel clinicians and non clinicians alike will find some valuable and very practical take home pearls from this brilliant medical mind.
"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful you need to be the person who makes things happen" Jim Lovell
More from Dr Cliff Reid:
https://resus.me
https://twitter.com/cliffreid
Resources and links discussed in this episode: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXAMlCwQAyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jkoGKAE_4
https://emcrit.org/emcrit/team-leadership/
https://resuscitology.com
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.*
In this episode I meet Dr Kellie Emmerson-Angel, Elite trail and ultra runner, Coach and Occupational Therapist and Researcher. We re-visit my favourite topic of the science, psychology and art of peak performance from the high performing athlete perspective. We discuss her role as a coach and particularly the challenges facing runners and athletes at this time. Dr Kellie gives valuable insight into her mindset, drive, enthusiasm and the habits and attitudes she cultivates in herself and others. As a front-line health professional who is also pregnant with her first child, we discuss the unique challenges this time has brought for her professionally and personally. Our conversation took place on R U OK day in Australia, fitting given the central role the running community and connections afforded has in both of our lives. Be inspired by this incredible woman and important role model and ambassador for her sport.
Learn more about the athlete and coach here:
https://www.facebook.com/kellerson.trailrunner
www.upcoaching.com.au>team>
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/kemmerson
Reference/links/useful resources:
https://www.ruok.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
In this episode I am delighted to introduce Dominique Salerno, Yoga Teacher, Principal and Co-founder of The Australian Yoga Academy ( AYA) in Melbourne Australia. Dominique has extensive training and experience in the practice and teaching of Yoga including particular expertise in Pranayama and Ayurveda. She has trained both in Australia and internationally under teachers she considers to be amongst the most knowledgeable in the world. I am also proud to call her my teacher. In this conversation Dominique provides an overview of Yoga but our particular emphasis is on its application in times of adversity and challenge, apt for our current situation individually and collectively. I particularly wanted to tap in to her expertise and knowledge on the art and science of breathing exercises or as this is referred to in yoga, Pranayama. Dominique provides a wonderful accessible introduction, tempered by the humility, humanity and good humour I have come to love and respect so much about her. We reference a couple of videos produced by Dominique herself, which I have provided link to below including more information about Dominique and her team at AYA.
Links and References:
https://australianyogaacademy.com/
Dominique's Emergency Reset Breath SOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Dq1QDsn4Y&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR16NIcPLncU1D50exA2WPXPasnQlNenTAEFppqC7IIuMfqC_tIaFnEDSY8
https://youtu.be/xkKKKasppi4
https://youtu.be/QGYFIHZadc0
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/introducing-unlocking-us/
https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I am delighted to talk to colleague Dr Kim Hansen MBBS ( HonsI) MBA FACEM MAICD. Dr Hansen is a an Emergency Physician and Director of Emergency Services at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital and Staff Specialist at The Prince Charles Hospital. Dr Hansen holds a number of other leadership roles including Faculty Chair of the Queensland section of ACEM and Chair of the Emergency Medicine Foundation. Dr Hansen has had a long held passion for and extensive experience working to improve patient Quality and Safety. Leading by example, she is a strong advocate for gender equity in leadership roles and is the inaugural chair of the Advancing Women in Emergency Medicine Committee ( AWE).
In this conversation we discuss there challenges we face as clinicians in Emergency Medicine at this time with particular emphasis on the need for strong leadership, robust process for patient and staff safety and quality of care, advocacy and promotion of positive culture in healthcare.
LInks discussed in this episode:
https://www.ifem.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/R-01_ED-Crowding-and-Access-Block-Report-Final-June-30-2020.pdf - IFEM’s Access Block Task Force. 9000 word report on access block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWRChDUs_Y&feature=youtu.be - recent Webinar on ED Crowding and Access Block in COVID era, with Dr Eddy Lang, Dr Peter Jones, Dr John Bonning and others
ACEM COVID Guidelines:
https://acem.org.au/Content-Sources/Advancing-Emergency-Medicine/COVID-19/Resources/Clinical-Guidelines/The-New-Normal-ED-%e2%80%93-Living-with-COVID-19 - New Normal ED Living with COVID Section.
https://acem.org.au/Content-Sources/Advancing-Emergency-Medicine/COVID-19/Resources/Clinical-Guidelines/Workforce-Wellbeing - Workforce and Wellbeing (Co-author with Dr Mya Cubitt and Dr Rob Mitchell
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
Welcome back to the podcast. In this episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Dzung X. Vo, MD, FAAP, FSAHM. Dr Vo is an Adolescent Medicine Specialist and Head of the Vision of Adolescent Health and Medicine at BC Children's hospital. He is co-founder and Director of the BC Children's Hospital Centre for Mindfulness, University of British Columbia. He is also the author of the book The Mindful Teen. In this conversation we discuss his own journey with mindfulness and how he has incorporated this into his clinical work and its particular practical application in teens and adolescence. This is a timely and pertinent conversation in the current global climate and Dr Dzung shares his expertise and wisdom in a truly accessible and practical format. Recommended reading and listening for young adults, parents, teachers, doctors and indeed everyone.
You can find our more about Dr Dzung Vo and his work at:
http://keltymentalhealth.ca/centre-mindfulness
Recommended reading:
The Mindful Teen by Dr Dzung X Vo
https://amazon.com.au/Mindful-Teen-Powerful-Instant-Solutions-ebook/dp/B00QUIAJWU
Also available on Audible http://www.audible.com.au
Mindfulness Resources Australia
http://www.monash.edu/health/mindfulness
https://smilingmind.com.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
In this episode we focus on Sleep and its essential role in our health, well-being and performance. I speak with Mr Nick Littlehales, who has spent over two decades working with elite athletes, professionals and sleep deprived people like you and me to educate, advocate and empower them to take control of their own sleep and therefore health and performance. We discuss his serendipitous transition to this role, from senior executive for an international bedding company to coaching elite athletes and serving on the UK sleep council. We discuss his book "Sleep" and his practical application of the ever emerging science of sleep. We discuss the importance of the biological clock and knowing your own sleep/wake habits, our sleep environment and how we can schedule and train ourselves to make good sleep a habit, not a source of further stress and anxiety.
http://www.sportsleepcoach.com
http://www.instagram.com/_sportsleepcoach
http://www.facebook.com/sportsleepcoach
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I meet Specialist Sports Podiatrist and owner of Thrive Sports Medicine Caleb McInnes. Caleb has dual qualifications in Biomedical Science and Podiatry and extensive further education and clinical experience in areas of Human Biomechanics and Physiology. He has been running bare foot training workshops as a specialist in this area for several years. An expert in his field he has a special interest in sports injury assessment, management and performance enhancement addressing biomechanical and lifestyle factors and therefore adopts a holistic whole person, individualised approach to his clinical practice. Caleb is also an elite athlete and has represented Australia in running, duathlon and triathlon. In this episode we discuss the importance of feet as our foundations in health and performance. We explore the role of footwear particular at a time when more of us than ever are walking and running. Caleb explains the importance of strengthening our feet for injury prevention and offers some very practical exercises and advice we can all incorporate into our daily lives. You can out more about Caleb and his practice at :
http://www.thrivesportsmed.com.au
http://instagram.com/calebmcinnes_podiatrist
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
In this episode I meet Dr Stephen Hearns, an Emergency and Retrieval Physician, expert in mountain rescue and author of the book Peak Performance under Pressure. Dr Hearns explains the arc of performance and his own pressure pump model described in his book, looking at components of pressure control, testing and relief valves to maintain optimal flow. He discusses the science and psychology of performance in high pressure environments relating to organisations, teams and individuals. He also gives very practical insights and application from his own experience. We explore the concept of Flow and finding the sweet spot between challenge and skills, effort and ease. He is particularly interested in metacognition, "thinking about thinking" and the dynamics of cognitive appraisal. Whilst Dr Hearns works in the Emergency Medical field, this discussion and the insights are relevant to anyone looking to improve performance under pressure in work or play.
For more information about Dr Stephen Hearns, his book and online core cognition course :
www.corecognition.co.uk ( with links to online course)
https://www.amazon.com.au/PEAK-PERFORMANCE-UNDER-PRESSURE-Helicopter-ebook/dp/B07Z2TR99D
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode we meet Dr Shailla Vaidya MD a Canadian physician with a background in Emergency Medicine and Family Practice who also holds a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University. Dr Vaidya has also undergone extensive training in Ayurveda, Yoga therapy, Mindfulness and Trauma informed practices. She combines her knowledge, skills and experience in her practice in Toronto with particular focus on working with groups and individuals to help manage burnout and the physical and emotional sequelae of chronic stress related illness. We discuss occupational burnout particularly with reference to the current COVID19 global pandemic, the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on health and well-being and yoga as a tool for self calibration.
Website: www.theYogaMD.caTwitter:@ShaillaVaidya
Facebook: Dr. Shailla Vaidya the YogaMD
LinkedIn: Shailla Vaidy
Instagram:the.Yoga.MD
references:
Shanafelt TD, Noseworthy JH. Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017;92(1):129‐146. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.10.004
resources:
www.drs4drs.com.au
www.beyondblue.org.au
www.lifeline.org.au 13 11 14
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.
In this episode I meet Dr Greta Prozesky who is a GP with more than 20 years of experience with a particular expertise and interest in Lifestyle Medicine. Two years she opened her practice The Wholistic GP and in 2019 became a fellow of ASLM ( The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine) Greta provides a broad overview of Lifestyle Medicine approaches and how she combines this with her conventional medical practice. In this very balanced discussion she offers some insights and practical tips for everyone from health care professionals to patients and individuals looking to make positive lifestyle changes.
https://www.thewholsticgp.com.au
https://www.lifestylemedicine.org.au
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.
Welcome to this inaugural episode of the Mind Full Medic Podcast. I am your host Dr Cheryl Martin, an Emergency Physician with a particular interest in the all encompassing view of health, and the ways in which we move, eat, work, rest, play and engage with each other and our community can positively impact our health, well being and ability to perform at our best. In this episode I discuss the ways in which movement, exercise and physical activity can be medicine with Dr Brandi Cole, a Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician and fellow of the Australian College of Sports and Exercise Medicine. We discuss her extended role as an SEM doctor, which includes exercise prescription, injury prevention and health advocacy in the wider community including those with existing medical conditions, not just elite athletes. We also explore the particular challenges we face with restrictions on how and when we move in the current COVID-19 pandemic and it's implications for our physical and mental well being. This episode provides a broad brush overview of the concept of movement as medicine and I hope that Dr Brandi will return in future episodes to diver deeper into some of the science, art and practical applications of the topics we discuss.
In the meantime you can reach Dr Brandi and her team at :
http://www.shiresportsmedicine.com.au/
We refer to the WHO exercise guidelines for health in this episode and these can be accessed here:
https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/factsheet.adults/
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional.