Last month two of my Foundation colleagues wrote an opinion piece on resilience training which brought a simmering topic to boil[1]. The article itself was an interesting take and there have been many of them recently, directly correlating with worsening working conditions within the NHS. Everywhere you look, medical media is saturated with the concept […]
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Resident Burnout: Developing New Approaches to Wellness for the Millennial Mindset of Graduate Medical Learners
Bryan Pardo, MD, Heidi Allespach, PhD, Joan E. St Onge, MD, Yvonne Diaz, MD University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital Millennials (born between 1984-2004) view the world in a radically different manner than do their Baby Boomer and Gen X faculty. It can be argued that a leading contributor to burnout is […]
Sexual harassment has also not been addressed in Japan
Japanese society in general has recently supported policies against sexual harassment. Many hospitals have introduced local committees for preventing or managing this issue and physicians may have been introduced to more appropriate behaviors about sexual harassment. We conducted longitudinal surveys for Japanese physicians using clinical scenarios about challenges to professionalism, including sexual harassment with multiple […]
“But what if you get made to go to war?”
Chris Yates “But what if you get made to go to war?” This must be the most prevalent initial response I get from my NHS colleagues on hearing that I juggle being both a junior doctor and an army reservist. It is a question that I have honed my response to over the last year […]
The importance of caste!
Dr Sagarika Kamath Assistant Professor Manipal University, India Dr Rajesh Kamath Assistant Professor Manipal University, India As young doctors being trained in hospital and health administration, we had a class in Organisational behaviour where the professor began saying that caste was a very important factor in any organisation. It was important for the caste to […]
A collection of thoughts from Colorado Springs to mind
Philip D Welsby Retired Consultant in Infectious Diseases, University Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh Two events of medical interest occurred during a recent visit to the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Springs. I developed gout in my left little toe within one week of arrival in Denver, the “mile high” city (5,280 feet) above sea level. […]
Collusion, illusion, or delusion?
Fending Off Death 1 by wiebkefesch on DeviantArt Doctors are – in the main – trained to prevent death. Modern medicine has made huge advances, and life expectancies continue to rise. However, there remains only one certainty in this life – that we are all going to die. Patients in the last year of life […]
All in a day’s work
Becoming a doctor is a long and arduous process. It involves many years of study and more of practice. It is inconceivable that this process leaves those who go through it untouched. This process is called professional socialisation. It confers values, and behaviours on the participants, and these help to mark our profession out from […]
The art of medicine
Doctors have a long and proud history of involvement in the arts. There are classic tomes published by doctors – The House of God (Shem), Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle), The Story of San Michele (Munthe), The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov). The profession has also produced a number of playwrights (Chekov), and poets (Keats). This […]
In the land of the blind…
Leadership is one of those areas of medical training that is increasing in prevalence, and the number of schemes to ensure that medical leaders are available within the workforce is ever expanding. Some in our profession feel that the ‘leaders’ who are ‘trained’ seem to have few leadership qualities, and even less legitimacy to lead […]