RCSEd Podcast

We begin our new series focusing on careers and career aspirations with co-host, Sadie Khwaja’s own specialty, Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery. Our guests are Consultant Otolaryngologist Emma Stapleton, ENT Registrar Todd Kanzara and medical student Eman Hasan.

Careers

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Surgical

The Let's Talk Surgery podcast from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (RCSEd) introduces a new surgical career's series, 'Surgical Crossroads: Choosing Your Specialty'. With 11 episodes, this podcast series focuses on careers and career aspirations. We'll be talking about how to choose the career you want in surgery and giving you a flavour of our guests' chosen specialty, as well as hints, tips and advice from those established in their career to their colleagues who are just beginning to find their career pathways. In each episode, we will look at a different specialty and speak with three guests at different stages in their career path – a consultant, a registrar and a medical student.

Careers

Specialty

Surgical

Mr Simon Paterson-Brown joins the podcast as co-director of the MSc in Patient Safety & Clinical Human factors to discuss the aims of the course, its inception and applicability in everyday healthcare delivery.

Patient Safety

Surgical

Sesi and Paddy are joined by Ciaran McDonnell, Hannah Travers and Mimi Li, vascular surgeons across the grade spectrum for an interesting and insightful discussion around the workforce challenges that faces vascular surgery both now and in the future but also offer some solutions being considered and implemented by the Workforce Committee, Rouleaux club and the wider vascular community. Listen out for a light-hearted but well off the mark prediction of a famous rugby match from Ciaran!

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vascular surgery

Paddy and Sesi are joined by Ruth Benson, vascular trainee, and recent past president of the Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN) to discuss innovative research during the COVID pandemic – COVER Study and her’s and VERN’s journey through research.

Ken & Steve along with guest host Rachel Falconer are joined by Professor Roger Kneebone, author of the book ‘Expert: Understanding the path to Mastery’.

Ken and Steve are joined by Hepatobiliary surgeon, scientist and culture change enthusiast, Carol-Anne Moulton from the University of Toronto to explore some of her research work and her personal experiences.

Ken and Steve are joined by Dr Michael Moneypenny, a consultant anaesthetist who talks passionately and with great insight on the use of debrief in simulation and in real life. The hows, whens and pitfalls.

Ken and Steve kick off their performance project series with Iya Whiteley, Director of Centre for Space Medicine, UCL.

RCSEd is pleased to partner with ‘Ken & Steve’ to bring the Performance Project Podcast series. Ken Walker and Professor Steve Yule will be hosting a series of podcast episodes talking to guests from a range of professions between health, psychology, space and others to discuss some of the challenges professionals face and how these can be overcome to maximise performance. Worth tuning in for! Greg and Sesi are joined by Ken and Steve to discuss the upcoming series and what to expect.