Third Spacing

Third Spacing

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Third Spacing episodes

  • Ep 34 How can architecture facilitate patient recovery?
    In this episode, we interview Mr Jerry Ong, architect with CPG Consultants, in a special collaboration with The Weird and Wild. Mr Ong shares with us his goals and responsibility as an architect to create a healing environment in his design. He also emphasises the importance of sustainable design, and discusses the multiple aspects in consideration when designing a healthcare infrastructure project.
    24 min
  • Environment: Introduction

    If healthcare worldwide were a country - it would be the 5th biggest greenhouse gas emitter. Climate change’s impact on physical health is obvious - but have we considered ways in which healthcare impacts the environment? 


    Together with @theweirdandwild in this series, we talk to individuals from science, architecture, psychology, and community organising to unpack the ways we can begin to see that our responsibilities to our patients are not limited to the immediate, but extend to the planet at large.

    3 min
  • Ep 33 What is the problem with our understanding of intelligence?
    Professor Stefano Harney, who has held teaching positions at the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business and numerous international institutions, talks about our understanding and measurement of intelligence, and how this might affect the effectiveness of our education system. We touch on educator’s roles in fostering creativity and critical thinking, and the way authority might affect our abilities in encouraging creative voices. Finally, we explore the potential benefits of incorporating creative learning into medical education in Singapore.
    26 min
  • Ep 31 What is it like being a doctor in war-torn Afghanistan?
    In this episode, Dr Hakim Wee, who has worked in Afghanistan with Afghan Peace Volunteers for close to 20 years shares the meaning behind his name ‘Hakim’ and his journey from running a private medical practice in Singapore to working along the Afghan-Pakistan border. We ask about his biggest takeaways and what keeps him going in the face of endless destruction.
    22 min
  • Ep 30 How to cultivate care in Surgical education?
    We talk to Dr Terence Huey, Senior Consultant in Hepatobiliary surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Programme Director of the National Healthcare Group General Surgery Residency programme about changes in clinical culture since he was a student, the necessity of resilience, his philosophy of what makes a good surgeon and how they all influence the evolution of postgraduate surgical education.
    32 min
  • Ep 29 How to teach with the student in mind?

    In this episode, we invite Associate Professor Nga Min En from NUS Medicine to speak with us about Pathweb, an interactive Pathology teaching resource meant for students of medicine and the medical sciences. We explore her journey in creating the resource, from her initial motivations to developing and expanding the project onto various platforms. We discuss the importance of feedback in fuelling improvement and its role in evaluating success, as well as maintaining individual goals in relation to measuring success.


    30 min
  • Ep 26 Where should medical education expand beyond its current boundaries?
    In the continuation of our two-part episode, we speak with Dr Chen Zhi Xiong about the role medical humanities can play in bettering medical education. Linking this to current health programs at NUS we speak at length about developing medical exchange programmes to improve their effectiveness. Dr Chen shares his view on global health programs and the importance of teaching men to fish rather than simply providing the fish.
    29 min

About Third Spacing

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Third Spacing is the yet to be defined space between cells and vessels, where fluid moves from one space to another. In sociology, the Third Space is where people meet to unwind, let down their guard and talk about things that matter to them, distinct from work and home, towards connection.