KUMEC Medical Education Podcasts

Interprofessional Supervision with Dr John Launer

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
Follow him on Twitter @johnlauner

Valuing Neurodiversity in Healthcare Education and Training

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
 

Supporting students and colleagues with a disability in the NHS, their communities and life

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.

Trans-People are Just Normal People - Health for All with Eva Echo

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 28 min podcast Eva discusses their 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
Follow us @KUMEC4KCL on Twitter and @KUMECTEACHERS on Instagram
Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com

Experience Is The Best Stage 2 Teacher

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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Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com

Student Schwartz Rounds at King’s

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 or if 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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Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com

Digital Hyperconnectivity & Burnout; ’Technology and our Mental Health’

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
Follow us @KUMEC4KCL on Twitter. 
Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com

What Are We Assessing?

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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Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com

How Do I Get a Job Like Yours?

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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Theme music by Kevin Macleod: incompetech.com
 

Are We There Yet? Widening Participation in Medicine

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