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The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
Everyone has coping mechanisms, but sometimes those ways of coping become problem behaviours - addictions.
In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're focussing on how to spot the signs that you may be sliding into addiction, how to have conversations with friends and colleagues if you worry about their behaviour, and how seeking treatment is the best way to avoid GMC scrutiny.
Joining Clara Munro are Liz Croton and Zaid Al-Najjar, GPs who work for NHS Practitioner health - a mental health and addiction service specifically for health professionals. They are also joined by Ruth Mayall, a retired consultant anaesthetist who has experienced addiction herself, and has contributed to the Association of Anaesthetists guidance on drug and alcohol abuse.
Some resources mentioned in the podcast;
NHS Practitioner Health
https://www.practitionerhealth.nhs.uk/
The Sick Doctor's Trust
http://sick-doctors-trust.co.uk/
British Doctors & Dentists Group
https://www.bddg.org/
Substance use disorder in the anaesthetist
https://anaesthetists.org/Home/Resources-publications/Guidelines/Substance-use-disorder-in-the-anaesthetist
Substance abuse in anaesthetists
https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/16/7/236/2196385?login=false
In our final episode of this season, we're going quantitative, with the newly released data on how trainees in the UK are faring.
Each year the UK's General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, surveys trainees in the NHS to ask them questions about stress and burnout, harassment and discrimination, and how well supported they feel in their training. They also ask trainers about the same things.
Unsurprisingly, the year the results look bad - with increasing levels of burnout across the board, but particularly in new trainees. At the same time trainers are feeling unable to use their time supporting learning, and instead are propping up the system.
To discuss this, Clara Munro and Ayisha Ashmore are joined by Colin Melville, medical director, and director of education and standards, at the GMC.
All the data discussed, and the interactive tool that Colin mentions, are available on the GMC's National training survey 2023 results page.
We're in pride month, and this year the celebration of LGBT+ people seems to be increasingly contentious. Healthcare's treatment of queer people has improved hugely since the days when being gay was considered a mental disorder, and would end a doctor's career - but that doesn't mean that everything is equal.
In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're hearing from two doctors who are out and proud at work, about what it's been like to be queer in medicine, and what good allyship looks like.
Our Guests
Michael Farqhuar is consultant in sleep medicine at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, he also helped set up the NHS Rainbow badge scheme.
Greta McLachlan is a general surgical trainee, and member of the Royal College of Surgeon's Pride in Surgery Forum
https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/16/7/236/2196385?login=false
https://anaesthetists.org/Home/Wellbeing-support/Fatigue/-Fight-Fatigue-download-our-information-packs
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34218313/
In this podcast, Clara Munro is joined by Flo Wedmore and new panelist Jason Ramsingh, a surgical trainee in Newcastle. They speak to Rob Fleming an SAS (speciality and associate specialist) doctor in anaesthetics.
https://spcare.bmj.com/content/11/3/310
Declan Murphy, an academic medical fellow S2 in ophthalmology in Newcastle, and former Sharp Scratch panelist.
https://www.bmj.com/content/379/8356
The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.
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