On The Wards: On The Pods Medical Podcast for Doctors

Summary Writer:  Jeffrey Duncan

Script Writer:  Anastasia Volovets

Editor:  Anastasia Volovets

Interviewee:  Anastasia Volovets

James talks to Anastasia Volovets about Upper GI bleeding.

Dr Anastasia Volovets is a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. After completing her advanced training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, she took off for the green pastures of Edinburgh in Scotland to complete a fellowship in advanced liver disease and liver transplantation. On return she did some more liver transplantology as a consultant before settling into a part time staff specialist duties at RPA as well as some private practice locally.

Anastasia loves teaching patients, nurses, medical students and other doctors almost as much as she loves the liver. She is currently involved in developing a state wide curriculum on gastrostomy feeding in her spare time and can often be found wondering the hospital with a cup of coffee and a toxicology textbook.

James talks to Dr Anastasia Volovets about upper GI bleeding.

Summary Writer:  Jeffrey Duncan

Script Writer:  Anastasia Volovets

Editor:  Anastasia Volovets

Interviewee:  Anastasia Volovets

About Dr Anastasia Volovets

Dr Anastasia Volovets is a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. After completing her advanced training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, she took off for the green pastures of Edinburgh in Scotland to complete a fellowship in advanced liver disease and liver transplantation. On return, she did some more liver transplantology as a consultant before settling into a part-time staff specialist duties at RPA as well as some private practice locally.

Anastasia loves teaching patients, nurses, medical students and other doctors almost as much as she loves the liver. She is currently involved in developing a statewide curriculum on gastrostomy feeding in her spare time and can often be found wandering the hospital with a cup of coffee and a toxicology textbook.

Interviewee:  Georgie Haysom

James talks to Georgie Haysom, the Head of Advocacy at Avant Mutual, about mandatory reporting, including what it is and how mandatory reporting works in practice.

Georgie Haysom (BSC, LLB (Hons), LLM (Bioethics) is the Head of Advocacy at Avant, Australia’s largest medical defence organisation.  In this role, Georgie works to improve the legislative and regulatory environment for members and the healthcare system as a whole.

She has worked in health law for nearly 25 years, assisting and advising doctors on a wide range of medicolegal issues, including several years representing doctors in medical negligence litigation.

She has a long-standing interest in the interaction between law, medicine and ethics, and the way in which the law impacts on medical practice.

Georgie has a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacology), Bachelor of Laws (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Laws specialising in bioethics from McGill University.

James talks to Georgie Haysom about mandatory reporting, including what it is and how mandatory reporting works in practice.

Interviewee:  Georgie Haysom

About Georgie Haysom

Georgie Haysom (BSC, LLB (Hons), LLM (Bioethics) is the Head of Advocacy at Avant, Australia’s largest medical defence organisation. In this role, Georgie works to improve the legislative and regulatory environment for members and the healthcare system as a whole.

She has worked in health law for nearly 25 years, assisting and advising doctors on a wide range of medicolegal issues, including several years representing doctors in medical negligence litigation.

She has a long-standing interest in the interaction between law, medicine, and ethics, and the way in which the law impacts on medical practice.

Georgie has a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacology), Bachelor of Laws (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Laws specialising in bioethics from McGill University.

Interviewee: Gavin Andrews

"Medicine is tough, work is hard, the hours are long, you have to be stoical under pressure, compassionate when required but most of all, you have to work and don’t complain. That doesn’t fit with a history of anxiety, depression or substance abuse".

Professor Gavin Andrews, AO, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales at St Vincent’s Hospital, where he heads the Anxiety and Depression Clinic, and the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression. He has a 15 year track record in web based treatments for anxiety and depression, a 40 year track record of treating anxiety and depression using CBT.  Gavin discusses the rates of anxiety and depression in medical students and the reasons underlying it; and provides information about 'MED - THIS WAY UP', an online mental health service that has a specific site for medical students and junior doctors.

Gavin has published more than 600 papers and books.  In April 2017 his Hirsch index was 100 and he is on the ISI Most Highly Cited list for psychology and psychiatry with more than 40,000 citations to his work.

Gavin Andrews research interests began with stuttering, a neurodevelopmental disorder, extended to depression, epidemiology, treatment of common mental disorders, classification of mental disorders, cost effectiveness, and Internet treatment of internalising disorders.

"Medicine is tough, work is hard, the hours are long, you have to be stoical under pressure, compassionate when required but most of all, you have to work and don’t complain. That doesn’t fit with a history of anxiety, depression or substance abuse". In this podcast, Gavin Andrews discusses the rates of anxiety and depression in medical students and the reasons underlying it; and provides information about 'MED - THIS WAY UP', an online mental health service that has a specific site for medical students and junior doctors.

Interviewee: Gavin Andrews

About Professor Gavin Andrews

Professor Gavin Andrews, AO, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales at St Vincent’s Hospital, where he heads the Anxiety and Depression Clinic, and the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression. He has a 15-year track record in web-based treatments for anxiety and depression, a 40-year track record of treating anxiety and depression using CBT.

Gavin has published more than 600 papers and books. In April 2017 his Hirsch index was 100 and he is on the ISI Most Highly Cited list for psychology and psychiatry with more than 40,000 citations to his work.

Gavin Andrews's research interests began with stuttering, a neurodevelopmental disorder, extended to depression, epidemiology, treatment of common mental disorders, classification of mental disorders, cost-effectiveness, and Internet treatment of internalising disorders.

Interviewee: Claire Hooker

James talks to Claire Hooker about Grace Under Pressure, a play weaving together the experiences of health professionals.  Medicine and nursing are often referred to as “caring” professions, yet bullying, harassment and “teaching by humiliation” are a common experience in hospitals, particularly for students and interns.

Dr Claire Hooker is Coordinator of the Health and Medical Humanities program at the University of Sydney, located in Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health. Over the past few years Claire has been quietly building capacity in theory and evidence for arts and health. She teaches a course on Arts and Health every year.

Claire and her research students and colleagues focus their own research and practice in a few key domains.

These include: the qualities and nuances of quotidian clinical communication; changing healthcare workplace cultures; ethical and theoretical frameworks for arts and health; the experiences, qualities, integrity and behavior of doctors (including an innovative project using acting skills workshops to prevent bullying and harassment in healthcare workplaces); and the qualities of illness experience. Claire’s research also extends into other areas – risk communication, critical evaluations of health policy – useful for making connections across different health fields.

Claire’s research and open access publications can be found at Dr Claire Hooker.

James talks to Claire Hooker about Grace Under Pressure, a play weaving together the experiences of health professionals.  Medicine and nursing are often referred to as “caring” professions, yet bullying, harassment and “teaching by humiliation” are a common experience in hospitals, particularly for students and interns. Grace Under Pressure is based on hours of interviews with doctors and nurses about their experiences training and working in hospitals.

Interviewee:  Claire Hooker

About Dr Claire Hooker

Dr Claire Hooker is Coordinator of the Health and Medical Humanities program at the University of Sydney, located in Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health. Over the past few years, Claire has been quietly building capacity in theory and evidence for arts and health. She teaches a course on Arts and Health every year.

Claire and her research students and colleagues focus their own research and practice in a few key domains.

These include: the qualities and nuances of quotidian clinical communication; changing healthcare workplace cultures; ethical and theoretical frameworks for arts and health; the experiences, qualities, integrity and behaviour of doctors (including an innovative project using acting skills workshops to prevent bullying and harassment in healthcare workplaces); and the qualities of illness experience. Claire’s research also extends into other areas – risk communication, critical evaluations of health policy – useful for making connections across different health fields.

Claire’s research and open access publications can be found at Dr Claire Hooker.

Summary Writer:  Rose McCarthy

Script Writer:  Joanna Dargan

Editor:  Joanna Dargan

Interviewee:  Joanna Dargan

Dr Joanna Dargan, a Urology Registrar, talks to James about a common call junior doctors are asked to assess on the wards – haematuria.

Joanna is currently working in New South Wales and interested in medical education and training.

Dr Joanna Dargan, a Urology Registrar, talks to James about haematuria. Haematuria is a common call junior doctors are asked to assess on the wards. Joanna is currently working in New South Wales and interested in medical education and training.

Summary Writer:  Rose McCarthy

Script Writer:  Joanna Dargan

Editor:  Joanna Dargan

Interviewee:  Joanna Dargan