Episode 10 – Maximising your Memory
Episode 10 – Maximising your Memory Do you struggle to remember facts? Revising for your FRCS? Frustrated that you can’t recall the reference for a paper in the trauma meeting? Concerned that your...
View ArticleEpisode 11 – Setting up a Virtual Fracture Clinic
Episode 11 – Setting up a Virtual Fracture Clinic A number of different models of care for fracture clinics have evolved around the UK and Ireland. One such model – the Virtual Fracture Clinic –...
View ArticleEpisode 12 – The Swinging Pendulum
Episode 12 – The Swinging Pendulum Nigel Rossiter, Consultant T&O Surgeon in Basingstoke and past President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, discusses the evolution of trauma care and relates it...
View ArticleEpisode 13 – Smooth Referral to a Spine Surgeon
Episode 13 – Smooth Referral to a Spine Surgeon T&O surgeons often complain about the unhelpful responses they receive from spine surgery colleagues when they try to refer patients with ‘acute...
View ArticleEpisode 14 – How to Survive your First Year as a Consultant
Episode 14 – How to Survive your First Year as a Consultant Niall Eames – Consultant Spinal Surgeon (T&O) – Northern Ireland Aprajay Golash – Consultant Spinal Surgeon (neuro) – Preston Niall Eames...
View ArticleEpisode 15 – Struggling to Pass MCQs
Episode 15 – Struggling to Pass MCQs Struggling to pass MCQ exams? If so, this three-way conversation between Sophie Howles (trainee with dyslexia) and Yvonne Gateley (study coach and dyslexia advisor)...
View ArticleEpisode 16 – Developing Resilience as a Surgeon
Episode 16 – Developing Resilience as a Surgeon Surgeons are expected to be resilient without ever learning how. They are expected to achieve perfect outcomes, deal with acute and chronic stress, but...
View ArticleEpisode 17 – Bullying in the Orthopaedic Workplace
Bullying in the orthopaedic workplace. How did we get here and where are we going? BOTA recently highlighted the issues of bullying, undermining and harassment within the surgical workplace. This came...
View ArticleEpisode 18 – Managing Stress & Burnout
Eva Doherty is Director of Human Factors in Patient Safety at the National Surgical Training Centre at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and is also a practising Chartered Clinical...
View ArticleEpisode 9 – Reducing Toxic Stress
Episode 9 – Reducing Toxic Stress Extensive research into surgeon’s decision-making and operative skills, made this month’s orthopodcaster realise that stress has a significant impact on both. Uttam...
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