Bek Ledingham chats to author, anaesthetist, mum and self publisher Emerald in this episode about her massive effort self publishing the gorgeous children's book I will always come home to you. This book has a treasured place on the bookshelves of 3000 medical mums and dads around the country. 

Emerald is an advanced trainee in Anaesthetics, currently on a retrieval rotation with LifeFlight and RFDS while studying for fellowship exams. She lives in Brisbane's suburbia with her husband, 8yo daughter, dog, cat and 4 chickens. Emerald's self published book, "I will always come home to you", was conceived when she was studying for primary exams and had to move away from her family. It took 18 months to write, illustrate and publish and has now sold almost 3000 copies across 5 countries. Emerald is also a multi award winning cake decorator with plans to tackle the cake competition circuit in 2021.

Our first ever in depth interview, Bek Ledingham, Rural generalist and medical educator from Broome WA chats to two of her favourite women who both have some impressive runs on the board in Medical leadership. 

Lucie Walters- Lucie Walters is the Director of Adelaide Rural Clinical School. Her experience in rural medical educational leadership spans across the continuum from vocational, and prevocational arenas to medical school longitudinal integrated clinical placements. She was instrumental in developing Australia's reputation for longitudinal integrated clerkships, contributing particularly to Flinders University, Otago University and University of Northern Ontario programs.

Lucie has worked as a rural generalist in Mount Gambier since 1993 with clinical scope during this time covering: general practice, emergency medicine and inpatient care. She currently works in Aboriginal health at Pangula Mannamurna. With a PhD in medical education, Lucie recognises the importance in educational scholarship and context relevant rural clinical research. 

Lucie is passionate about improving the health outcomes of rural people through the education, training and professional support of rural doctors. She is past President of the Australian College or Rural and Remote Medicine.

 Sarah Chalmers- Dr Sarah Chalmers is the current ACRRM president. She worked in East Arnhem Land for 15 years, before moving to North Queensland in 2019. She has worked in private general practice, hospitals and remote Aboriginal communities and homelands in the Northern Territory and is now working as an Rural Generalist in Winton in Western Queensland. She has always been interested in medical education, teaching medical students at Flinders University in the Northern Territory, and is now at James Cook University.  She also enjoys teaching and supervising registrars.  Her clinical interests include remote practice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, occupations and DNA sports medicine.

We chat about leadership, mentors, signing up for things that scare you and Life as one big dress up party. 

There is plenty of wisdom and lashings of fun in this podcast and I hope you enjoy.

Recorded just before Christmas 2020 Bec Young & Bek Ledingham chat about what we'd been watching. 

Legit good- Queens Gambit 

So bad it's good (for Bek anyway) Prom 

Left field recommendations- Bec recommends The Flight Attendant- Binge 

                                           Bek recommends Special - Netflix.

For future episodes we'd love to have Medical Mums chat about what we're watching, reading and listening to. 

If you'd like to co-host an episode with Bec, let us know. 

We had a slight technical issue with our intro episode which means you can only listen on Spotify. 

Here it is again so everyone can be introduced - wherever they're listening. 

So, we've decided to give a podcast a red hot go.

Meet some of our foundation team on this episode and hear about why we wanted to move into the world of podcasting.

We would love you to get involved, please get in touch.

This episode you will hear a little bit about...

Cheryl Choong - rural generalist, skin cancer and skin care aficionado, mum, Korean drama enthusiast, proud WOC.

Clair Stafford- Medical Student and mum to a beautiful little girl, plus pregnant with boy/girl twins! Also loves cats.

Nada Hamad- Haematologist, intersectional feminist, president of ANZTCT and mother of amazing girls.

Bec Young - orthopaedic surgical assistant, and mum of 3 primary school aged children. A worker bee who loves to chat, and loves to listen as she goes about her busy life!

& Bek Ledingham- Rural Generalist, Eternal Optimist, Unexpected online choir director and super proud Mum and sibling band manager...amongst other things.

Watch this space for future Medical mums chat instalments.

Thanks to talented medical mum Kristen Dang for the gorgeous cover art.