KUMEC Medical Education Podcasts

Leading The Way for Justice – an interview with two EDI experts from UCL and KCL

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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Self-Care from Dr Radha Modgil - ED Talks from 2021 Conference

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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Decolonising the Medical Curriculum with Structure and the Clinic

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)

One year on…how we adapted to delivering Medical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic

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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Tales from the Vaccine Hub

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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Tackling Racism in Medical Schools

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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#BLM: Experiences of Black GP Teachers

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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"It felt like I had a job"

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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Becoming: How do Students form their identities as doctors?

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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Meet the MDT: Kalyan Goli - Health Care Assistant

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.