Contingency FM

In this second of a 3-part miniseries on on-call tasks, we give you a virtual handover and give you a chance to practice prioritising tasks before talking through how we would go about prioritising, with our rationale and discussion about further information we may want to ask. 

This episode can be listened to as stand-alone; however you may find it beneficial to engage with the handover activity. 

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Instructions: 

Listen to the podcast, and take the handover as you would if you were on call. Pause to think what other questions you would like to ask, or what further information you need to know, then decide in what order you will approach these jobs and why. Listen to the rest of the podcast to get our take on this

In the next 3 episodes, we take you through some of the skills and activities that are helpful to develop whilst managing the on-call environment. In this podcast, we take you through a virtual seminar where we discuss methods of effective prioritisation. 

This episode can be listened to as stand-alone; however there is also an accompanying workbook, hosted at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2w5eqke9s56s3/Contingency_FM or, for Newcastle medical students, on the MLE under 5th year/HBP medicine/Wear/Contingency FM

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Listen to the prioritisation podcast while looking through the ‘prioritisation introduction’ PowerPoint (we will tell you when to change the slides on the podcast) 

Talking about death seems often to be a taboo in society. Yet, as doctors, we will all deal with death and dying on a regular basis – both in our personal lives and in our professional lives; and often  those two areas seem to merge. We talk about our own experiences of death and dying – both within the job, and how death and dying of friends and family has impacted on our work. 

There are no additional resources attached to this episode.

Prescribing can feel pretty complicated when it comes to End of Life care. We take you through a virtual seminar where we discuss some of the common treatments for different symptoms experienced by patients in their last days. 

This episode can be listened to as stand-alone; however there is an accompanying powerpoint and workbook, hosted at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2w5eqke9s56s3/Contingency_FM or, for Newcastle medical students, on the MLE under 5th year/HBP medicine/Wear/Contingency FM

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Instructions: 

Work through the palliative prescribing questions document and then listen to the podcast while looking through the PowerPoint and this will explain the answers.

All doctors will make mistakes from time to time, despite our best intentions. The important thing is that we learn from these and share them so others can learn too. We discuss some of the mistakes we have made since qualifying, why these happened and how we dealt with these.

In this episode, we provide some examples of conversations where a doctor explores whether a patient has capacity. If listening to this without the workbook, consider whether the patient has capacity, and how the doctor is exploring this well, and in what ways it could be improved. 

This episode can be listened to as stand-alone; however there is also an accompanying workbook, hosted at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2w5eqke9s56s3/Contingency_FM or, for Newcastle medical students, on the MLE under 5th year/HBP medicine/Wear/Contingency FM

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Instructions: 

The workbook talks you through the activity and will tell you when to fill in the DOLS form and when to listen to the podcast.

In this episode, we talk through various examples of times that we have had to respond to sick patients and how we have escalated care. We discuss how we felt when facing very sick patients and what we would do differently now if faced with the same situation. 

There are no additional resources attached to this episode.

Welcome to Contingency FM, a podcast produced by teaching fellows at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

This podcast is endorsed by Newcastle University and the Northern Foundation School.

This podcast is aimed at final year medical students and junior doctors, to support key parts of practice, including dealing with death and dying, on-call shifts and prioritisation.

A second season will consist of interviews with consultants and specialists, with a joint focus on careers advice and practical advice for moving into jobs in specific specialties.

A guide to using this podcast can be found at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2w5eqke9s56s3/Contingency_FM or, for Newcastle medical students, on the MLE under 5th year/HBP medicine/Wear/Contingency FM