It’s good to see the topics of clinician self care being more commonly discussed, both in FOAMed circles and at regular conferences. At the recent RDASA Masterclass in SA, Thinkwell psychologist Hugh Kearns and myself delivered a short session on self care, and I was thrilled to hear Dr Roger Sexton of Doctors Health SA talk …
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Some of you may have read Ian Beardsell’s parody “What has Twitter ever do for us” (a take on Monty Python’s “What have the Romans ever done for us?”) – a nice synergy of humour and Emergency Medicine at StEmlyns I had always thought that “The Four Yorkshiremen” was vintage Python – but the original …
My blog profile mention that I am an instructor and course director for the ATLS-EMST course. ATLS-EMST is something in which I believe – a structured approach to trauma management training for doctors. But over the years I have become frustrated with the tardiness of knowledge translation – concepts that I learn about via FOAMed …
DISCLAIMER : This post is about how medics interact within the various tribes. It is NOT about primary care vs teaching hospital, ED vs medics, surgeons vs anaesthetists. I’ve had some people comment on twitter that this is ‘about being a GP undermined by colleagues’. It’s not. It’s about clinicians, of whatever ilk, either undermining …
A recent supervisors workshop has made me think about how I structure teachjng sessions – often a medical student or registrar will come along and say ‘teach me something’ – My teaching is often shaped by what I am interested in, by events that have happened recently or by the desire to finish teaching ASAP …