KUMEC Medical Education Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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The King's Undergraduate Medical Education in The Community Teacher Development Team have created 15 minute podcasts on Hot Topics in Medical Education. We hope you listen and enjoy!
This is John's second KUMEC podcast. In this 20 minute episode he suggests that all healthcare professionals should have supervision, formally or informally and should come to work with at least two hats on - one of which is as a supervisor. Rini Paul discusses with him the rise and benefits of interprofessional supervision and a simple fish bowl model to have these reflective discussions.
John Launer is a doctor, educator and award-winning writer. With a dual professional background in general practice and family therapy, as well a degree in English literature, John’s interests range across the borders of health care, systems thinking, and the humanities. They include narrative medicine, clinical supervision for the health professions and team development in the health service.
John has written and edited ten books including ‘Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change” (Routledge 2018) and “How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays” (Duckworth 2018). Further details are on his Main Publications page.
John is the longest serving medical columnist in the UK since 1980, he wrote the ‘On reflection’ series every month in the Postgraduate Medical Journal from 2008 to 2022 and is now a fortnightly columnist for the British Medical Journal.
John is lead programme director for educational innovation in primary care for the NHS in London. His other posts include honorary associate clinical professor of primary care at University College London, honorary lifetime consultant at the Tavistock Clinic, faculty member at the Foundation for Family Medicine in Palestine and at ISTUD Business School in Milan, and founding president of the Association of Narrative Practice in Healthcare. John is a founder member of the International Association for Spielrein Studies and on its committee.
Contact John at johnlauner@aol.com
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This episode is just under 30 mins long and Rini is in conversation with Dr Ashley Liew, a Consultant Paediatric Neuro Psychiatrist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has clinical and academic interests, as well as national leadership roles, in the mental health of children with neurodevelopmental conditions (Learning Disabilities, Autism, ADHD) and/or neurological conditions (epilepsy, neuroinflammatory conditions). As a medical educator and trainer, he is particularly interested in how we support and value neurodiversity.
We discuss the social model of disability, the difference between neurodiverse traits and neurodivergence as a host of conditions, how it might present, whether a diagnosis is always helpful and how you can support learners and colleagues and a framework you might find helpful from Mary Doherty and colleagues for autistic people in healthcare settings.
Twitter @ashleypcliew @KUMEC4KCL
Instagram @KUMECTEACHERS
In this 20 min episode Rini speaks to Dr Grace Spence Green, a junior doctor who sustained a spinal cord injury as a senior medical student and became a wheelchair user. Grace talks about her journey, tackling her own ableism, the importance of asking not assuming, representation and how we can begin to fill the dearth on disability teaching in healthcare education. There are so many top tips in this conversation including thinking about:
- Your own bias
- How to have honest conversations
- How accesible our environments are
- The whole person in the context of their community and their life
- Reading books like Disability Visibility by Alice Wong, listening to stories from and by those with diablities
- Who you follow on social media including Grace herself @gspencegreen
This was a joyful and inspiring conversation, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Rini Paul (She/Her), a GP and Medical Educator at King’s College London interviews Eva Echo (She/They) Trans-Activist, Educator, Director of Birmingham Pride who also works with the Crown Prosecution Services.
In this 20 min podcast Eva discusses her coming out journey, the challenges with accessing healthcare for transgender people and why she had to pay for some aspects of their care privately. She uses her voice to remind our students, medical educators, and clinicians that we need to normalise transpeople and transhealthcare, that knowledge is the key to inclusion and to lean into our privilege and empathy and use our voices to support those who need it the most.
TW - there is mention of self-harm in this episode.
Eva can be found here on Twitter and Instagram @Evaech0
We have collated some resources below you might find useful:
- Do follow Eva and others on social media and read their blogs to understand more about their personal journeys
- RCGP guidance On Transgender Care
- RCGP e-learning module on Gender Variance
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In this 19-minute podcast, Dr Laila Abdullah interviews her Teacher Devlopment co-Lead, Dr Rini Paul on her journey as a new tutor on the GP Stage 2 programme. Rini shares why she decided to take on a Stage 2 group, what she learnt and enjoyed about the role and reflects on her top tips, including how to help students keep on top of their assessments, getting to know your students as individuals, involving the wider GP team in teaching and making the most of peer support (for your students and yourselves!). A must listen for new, current and prospective tutors on the programme.
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In this 16 min podcast Rini speaks to Kaynath a final year nursing student about her experience of being a panellist at the KCL Students Discrimination and Diversity Schwartz Round. She shares a shocking and sad story of discrimination she experienced on a placement. The rounds are a pilot project where all healthcare faculty students at King’s College London – Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Pharmacy are invited to join an hour long Schwartz round on a theme.
Schwartz Rounds are a multidisciplinary, safe reflective space where we listen to panellists’ stories and then invite the audience to share their reflections and stories without going into problem solving mode. There is evidence that this supports the wellbeing of regular attendees and has positive impacts on teamworking and patient care in other settings.
The Point of Care Foundation support our Schwartz Rounds and Kaynath was a student speaker at their recent conference in Liverpool alongside other students institutions that run Schwartz Rounds for Undergraduate healthcare students and are committed to tackling EDI issues.
Have you ever been to a round orif you are a teacher have your students? Take a listen, and think about what value they could bring and if you might encourage your own students to attend?
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In this short 15 min podcast we are resharing an Ed Talk from our Winter conference 2022 on Pandemic Identity Shifts. Hugely relevant too all, the conscious use of technology, the benefits and pitfalls as individuals, teams and for our patients.
Our speaker was Dr Romayne Gadelrab (she/her) a Consultant Psychiatrist, and Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London. She sits as the co-chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Digital Special Interest Group and is interested in the effects of technology on our mental health. Following her Maudsley psychiatry training, she studied Innovation at the Elisava School of Design, Barcelona and is keen to see the integration of new technologies in mental health. She also works as an honorary Doctor at the National Centre for Gaming Disorders.
She has a mixed response to being on Social Media but you can find her on Instagram @romy_gad
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In this 18 minute podcast Rini interviews Dr James Galloway, a Rheumatology Consultant and the King’s College London School of Medicine Lead for Assessments on how we assess our medical students, progress tests (the rationale), writing SBA (single best answer) questions and portfolios. We had a fascinating discussion on how the Medical School (and students) adapted to online and open book exams, assessing clinical reasoning and top tips for Medical Educators to support our learners.
You can contact James here: james.galloway@kcl.ac.uk and Find him on Twitter @drjamesgalloway
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In this short 15 minute podcast, Rini brings together three current or previous KUMEC Teacher Development Leads to discuss their different pathways into Medical Education. Dr Kerry Boardman many of you may know already from her time at KUMEC is now as Associate Professor working in the Postgraduate Medical Education Team teaching their Masters Programme and Dr Laila Abdullah is the Teacher Development Co-Lead with Rini. If you are interested in a role in Medical Education this will help you understand what helps and to get there with a top tip from Laila about not giving up and some fascinating research by Kerry about the paths medical educators take.
You can find both of them on Twitter @kerry_calvo @DrLailaAbdullah
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Rini (Dr Rini Paul) has been speaking to King’s College London (KCL) medical students and trying to elevate the voices of students who may not always have been heard. In this episode she finally gets to speak to an inspiring and joyful final year medical student James Frater, who has many other roles at King’s and beyond about his vision and relentless work to make access to institutions like ours more equitable. They discuss the work he does with students and other organisations to build programmes that are sustainable for those who need it the most.
They discuss his journey into medicine and how after joining KCL in 2015, James began to feel strongly about the low number of British students of Caribbean descent who were attending KCL and knew it needed to be addressed. He established a relationship between the Amos Bursary and KCL. At their most recent conference, they had close to 400 young people signed up with over 20% having Caribbean heritage.
They consider time management, how he has navigated medical school, what he wishes he had done differently and his “accountability” group. For James’ consistent dedication over the years, he has been recognised as one of the most outstanding students in the UK by Future Leaders and awarded the Akindolie Medical Scholarship, the prestigious Princess Diana Award and the Abbas Khan award for his outstanding contribution in the service of society in the past year. We are sure you will enjoy listening to this conversation and it will make you think about how you can support your students to genuinely feel included in our communities of practice.
You can read more about James’s work here:
- https://www.jamesfrater.com/more-about-me
- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-medical-student-receives-prestigious-princess-diana-award
- Queens At King's #QueensAtKings an initiative James led
How do we implement and sustain long-lasting and genuine change for equality, diversity, and inclusion work to improve outcomes for medical students, colleagues, and patients? Dr Rini Paul, one of our Teacher Development Leads speaks to Dr Lois Haruna-Cooper, a GP, Teaching Lecturer and the EDI Lead for University College London Medical School and Dr Shuangyu Li, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Communication & Cultural Competence, Centre for Education Lead for Development, Diversity & Inclusion and recently appointed Co-director of KCL Cultural Competency Institute. They cover how they got involved in this work, the power of allies, relationships, working with others “EDI is everyone’s business”, the challenges in dismantling the systemic structures of inequality, successes, and top tips for all medical educators. This podcast is in a longer format to explore these issues in more depth.
Read further here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural-competency
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Dr. Radha (she/her) is a practising NHS GP, broadcaster & campaigner for wellbeing. Radha educates in a creative and fun way, encouraging people to stay healthy. She has a passion for connecting with & hearing people’s stories, and understanding how we can all learn from each other.
Dr Radha walked us through how creativity helps our ability to connect, communicate and teach. She covered self care and how in putting ourselves first, we can help others learn to thrive.
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Rini speaks to two of our final year KCL medical students Natasha Chilambo and Nivethitha Ganapathiram (recently qualified doctors) about why they set up Structure and the Clinic.
Together in this short podcast, they cover knowledge, power, epistemic injustice in the curriculum and clinical practice, how biomedical reductionism is implicated in the coloniality of Western medicine, why diversification is not the same as decolonising, politics in medicine with a big and little P and what we can do as medical educators!
Do watch and learn more about their work subscribing to their YouTube channel and newsletter to find out more. Links below:
- Structure and the Clinic Linktr.ee
- Structure and the Clinic YouTube channel
- Structure and the Clinic Twitter (@structureandth1)
You can follow both Natasha and Nivethitha on social media too:
- Natasha Chilambo (@tashachilambo)
- Nivethitha Ganapathiram (@NivethithaRam2)
A year on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the first UK lockdown, Ros Herbert and Rini Paul the KUMEC Teacher Development Leads reflect on how we, our students and our GP teachers have adapted the GP curriculum to include remote consulting and teaching online seminars.
We discuss our personal benefits and challenges and what we hope to keep going forward, as well as insights from Professor Anne Stephenson (Community Director of KUMEC), Dr Ann Wylie (Deputy Director) and Dr Liza Kirtchuk (Stage 2 GP Lead) on their experiences in 2020/2021.
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On top of her course Kings medical student Natasha Binnie has been working hard at a North London vaccine hub as well as setting up a mental health charity for students.
She describes how being part of the vaccine team and feeling useful has helped her mental health.
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Rini interviews 4th year King’s Medical Student Gurdas Singh. They discuss his time as BMA Student Co-Chair, his work and vision setting up the BMA Charter Against Racial Harassment and what medical schools and individual teachers and educators can do to tackle racial harassment and discrimination and their shared dislike of mandatory training and the term BAME.
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/discrimination-and-harassment/racial-harassment-in-medical-schools/racial-harassment-charter-for-medical-schools
Kmietowicz Zosia Tackling racism in medical schools: five minutes with . . . Gurdas Singh BMJ 2020; 368 :m583
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The second in our series of Black Lives Matter (BLM) #MedEd podcasts released during Black History Month, Rini speaks to two of our GP teachers - Drs Matilda Esan and Tim Modiano about their experiences as black doctors. They share advice for supporting students, patients, colleagues and their hopes for the future. This is a longer listen than our usual podcasts but important for all.
In the first BLM podcast Rini spoke to students from the African Caribbean Medical Society who had written an open letter to faculty. You can hear that here https://kumec.podbean.com/e/student-experiences-of-racism/
You can take the training mentioned here: Coventry University ‘Bystander Training.’ You will need to sign up for account-https://openmoodle.coventry.ac.uk/login/signup.php -type bystander in the search box, use enrolment key bystander365!
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Merwa Badar talks about her recent final year attachment in general practice, how she made the transition to mainly telephone consultations and what made it the best placement she has had at med school!
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Ros chats with Dr Anne Stephenson, head of KUMEC and professionalism for GKT. Anne describes how when she saw her first patient she was so scared she ran away!
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Kalyan Goli - Health Care Assistant
Kalyan is a doctor who trained overseas. He works as a HCA in general practice and also recently in a COVID ‘hot hub’. He talks about his experiences at the hub as well as his regular work.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Gurvinder Sian – Practice Manager
The role of the practice manager is so broad but also so essential. She describes this and challenges she has faced keeping the practice going through COVID-19.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Susan Haigh- Practice Nurse
Susan is a practice nurse with a special interest in asthma. She talks about her role in the team before and during the pandemic and what changes we have made in General Practice.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Joshua Martin- Paramedic
Joshua works as a community paramedic in a GP practice. He talks about his role in the multidisciplinary team, how it has developed over time and also his work in a COVID-19 Hot Hub.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Dr David Biles- GP trainee
David qualifies as a GP in 2 weeks time. He discusses his GP training, his time working in Cape Town, his research interests and also his work in setting up a COVID Hot Hub with Dr Russell Hearn.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Dr Jens Foell- GP with Special interests!
Jens is a GP in North wales, he is very much a portfolio GP.
This includes GP partnership, rural out of hours work, MSK work, NICE committees, looking after a learning disabilities home and mental health act assessments.
He discusses his working week before and during the pandemic.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Jackie Lourdes – Community Physiotherapist
Jackie is a senior physiotherapist in a community-based admissions avoidance service. She talks about her experiences of working in an MDT at the interface of primary and secondary care.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Shivani Patel – Pharmacist
Shivani is a lecturer at Kings, she worked as a community pharmacist in a variety of settings for many years. She discusses the key role pharmacists play in patient care in particular how well they get to know people in the community.
Meet The MDT podcasts
These podcasts were made for the final year students when they were unable to meet the wider team due to COVD 19.
They give a really interesting insight into different health professionals experiences and roles during the pandemic. I learnt so much from chatting with people whilst making them, it made me really appreciate how much we need the wider team so please listen and enjoy.
Ros and Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee discuss the concept of optimal support matching as a way to manage our workplace challenges, manage our own stress and support our students more.
You can find Amrita at her Website or on Twitter
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Rini interviews Olayinka and Alexandra the President and Vice-President of the KCL African-Carribean Medical Society who wrote an open letter to Faculty in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.
They share their experiences as black medical students including microaggresions and suggestions for change.
Read the open letter here: https://bit.ly/2XGpZkM
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Ros chats with Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee, a wellbeing coach and GP about how we as doctors can begin to process the last few months. We discuss celebrating all we have coped with, self-compassion, loss and then post traumatic growth.
You can find more about Dr Sen Mukherjee here: https://yourwellbeing.doctor/ or on twitter https://twitter.com/Yourwellbeingdr
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Dr Rini Paul interviews newly qualified interim foundation doctor (former KCL student) Dr Shamarah Mathurin-Charles about graduating during a pandemic with a Zoom graduation ceremony, working in a high dependency unit with Covid patients, PPE, what she really learnt during her time at medical school and more.
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Dr Matilda Esan chats to Rini about how she was inspired at a recent TEDX NHS conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eAaxl0pTw Faces of the NHS: 1.5 million stars | Alexandra Adams | TEDxNHS
youtu.be/VN9VwX2rUqk The empathy switch | Sammy Batt-Rawden | TEDxNHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLZ6HLlZmE Why rethinking PTSD can change everything | Charlie Webster | TEDxNHS
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A masterclass in role modelling holistic medicine from Dr Natalie Miller who co-runs Great Chapel Street, a specialist practice in Soho for homeless patients.
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Giskin Day reminds us of the benefits of medical humanities for both our students and ourselves.
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Dr Emily Arch, volunteer with Doctors of the World, discusses how our students and our tutors can help some of the most vulnerable in our society.
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Dr John Launer; author, GP, family therapist and educationalist talks with Ros about how to practice ‘narrative based medicine’ and then how to unpack what you are doing to the students sitting in with you.
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Dr Liza Kirtchuk chats with Ros about the year 2 active practice project and how the students can get us all moving more!
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Dr Graham Easton, author, journalist and lecturer chats with Ros about the use of stories in teaching. The power of stories , how they can skew risk perception but also how they engage us all.
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Pete Tayler-Hunt chats with Ros about how teaching leadership in the army prepared him to teach it to medical students. We discuss how we can understand our own leadership style and how to role model good leadership to our students.
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Dr Aisha Newth (Imperial VTS course organiser) talks about transforming her practice in Acton into to a beacon teaching surgery. She has managed to create a stimulating learning environment for registrars, F2s, and medical students of different years whilst keeping up with all the demands of busy general practice.
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Dr Rini Paul interviews Dr Mydhili Chellappah, the Year 2 Deputy GP Lead and Yvonne Batson-Wright the Year 2 Student Support Liaison about the joys, surprises and challenges of teaching a group of 8 year 2 medical students for a year.
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Dr Rini Paul explains what Schwartz Rounds are, how they focus on the emotional impact of the day to day work we do and are being utilised in two London Medical Schools. We hear a short, moving narrative from a 2019 final year KCL medical student, Yousef Eltuhamy describing an Elective experience he will never forget. We hope this enables you to think about using stories and focusing on emotions that arise as Community Teachers.
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Dr Ros Herbert interviews Dr Katy Willis, a GP and life and happiness coach. This podcast provides lots of practical tips and resources to help you, colleagues and your students.
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