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In this episode, Sharmaine will cover lower gastrointestinal (GI) conditions tailored to MRCS revision. Content is helpfully broken down into subcategories that aid in making them more comprehendible and easily remembered! - this is the second part in a two-part series

In this episode, Sharmaine will cover lower gastrointestinal (GI) conditions tailored to MRCS revision. Content is helpfully broken down into subcategories that aid in making them more comprehendible and easily remembered! This is part one of a two-part series.

In this episode, Sharmaine will cover upper gastrointestinal (GI) conditions tailored to MRCS revision. Content is helpfully broken down into subcategories that aid in making them more comprehendible and easily remembered! This is part two of a two-part series.

In this episode, Sharmaine will cover upper gastrointestinal (GI) conditions tailored to MRCS revision. Content is helpfully broken down into subcategories that aid in making them more comprehendible and easily remembered! This is part one of a two-part series.

In our final episode of this HLA mini-series we meet Dr. Amz Choudhury, an NHS Entrepreneur, co-founder and host of his very own podcast the "ScrubbedIn" podcast and co-founder of the revolutionary learning platform "Peer". Check out Dr. Amz's projects @scrubbedin_ and @peerr.io. Dr Choudhury designed and built the Peer education platform. Find out who he is and how he intends to change the world very soon! Dream big and then bigger!

This Podcast is sponsored by Medics.Academy

This week we have the pleasure of hosting a guest who has given talks all around the country. Dr. Sultan Hatab is a psychiatry foundation fellowship doctor who founded his own organisation the "Aafiyah project" which aims to draw focus on maintaining the wellbeing of the mind and soul. In this episode we learn about the challenges he faced and how he overcame them. 

Check out Dr. Hatab's project @aafiyahproject

This podcast is kindly sponsored by Medics.Academy

In this weeks episode we meet final year medical student Allan and second year medical student and qualified optometrist Henry. These 2 medical students have founded the @morethanamedic Instagram page. Their goal is aspire to inspire the future generation of medics in any and every way that they can. In this episode we will find out what they do outside of medical school, what their motivations are and their tips for successfully achieving your goals and dreams.

This podcast is kindly sponsored by Medics.Academy

The first episode in the 'More Than' podcast series with Dr Omar Abdul Jolil. Within this podcast, Omar discusses with various individuals who have proven that they are more than just clinicians on what their passions are and how they realised them.Our speaker for this week founded his own charity whilst in medical school, has set up clinics and released educational material across the globe and secured the support of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In this episode we speak to Dr. Aqil Jaigirdar. We learn what he is currently working on and what steps he took to making his dream a reality. Check out the Maa Charity Instagram page @maaglobal_

This podcast is kindly sponsored by Medics.Academy 

This episode will cover the concept of chance in statistics using the example of DNA evidence in criminal courts.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

2016 was an important year for politics. Two world-changing events happened: EU referendum (or Brexit) and the US presidential election. The results of both events came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the opinion polling closely. It is believed that selection bias played a role in influencing the results. This episode will cover the concept of bias in statistics.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

On 12 January 2016, junior doctors took part in a general strike across the NHS in England for the first time since 1975. At the centre of the dispute was the weekend effect. The ex-health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, had repeatedly use this effect to back his push for 24/7 NHS and the new junior doctor contract in 2016. This episode will explore the concept of weekend effect and how its research is complicated by confounding factors.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

Testing for covid-19 comes with many benefits, but no test is 100% sensitive and specific. This episode will explain the concept of sensitivity and specificity using the example of covid-19 testing.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

This episode focuses on the process of drug development using the example of the Covid 19 vaccine. It will also provide the listeners with a walkthrough of the phase 3 trial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The study type of randomised controlled trials will be briefly explored.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

This episode will introduce the listeners to the study of Epidemiology. Epidemiology is the study of distribution (including frequency and pattern), risk/ protective factors and interventions (including diagnosing and management) of diseases. 3 historical stories (Dr John Snow and cholera, Dr Percival Pott and scrotal cancer and Dr James Lind and scurvy) will be used to further explained the study areas.

The HLA is approved by The Institute of Leadership & Management, is a certified member of Social Enterprises UK, and is commissioned by Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West. The HLA partners with Medics.Academy and through Medics.Academy its programme is accredited by the Medical School at the University of Central Lancashire. The HLA is also supported by University College London’s Academic Careers Office.

Join Raluca (ICU Nurse) and Chris (ICU Consultant) in looking after Mary, a (hypothetical) patient who has been in ICU for a week following a cardiac arrest.

We are looking at reducing sedation and assessing Mary’s neurology. Join us in discussion:

• Sedation? What is this and what medications we may use?
  
• Pain relief: what and why?
  
• How to assess neurology: GCS, RASS and CAM-ICU
  
• Delirium and its management.
  

We mention research around GCS:

• Glasgow Coma Scale:  Teasdale, G. and Jennett, B. (1974) 'Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness’, The Lancet, 2 (7872), pp.81-84.
  
• Green, S.M. (2011) ‘Cheerio, Laddie! Bidding Farewell to the Glasgow Coma Scale’, Annals of Emergency Services, 58(5), pp. 427-430.
  
• Reith FC, Synnot A, van den Brande R, Gruen RL, Maas AI (2017) ‘Factors Influencing the Reliability of the Glasgow Coma Scale: A Systematic Review.’,  Neurosurgery, 1;80(6), pp: 829-839. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyw178.
  
• Ramazani, J. and Hosseinei, M. (2019) ‘Comparison of Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score and Glasgow Coma Scale in Medical Intensive Care Unit’, Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 22(2), pp. 143-148,
  
• Wolf, C., Wijdicks, E., Bamlet, W., McLelland, R. (2007) ‘Further validation of the FOUR score coma scale by intensive care nurses’ in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(4) pp.435-438
  

Main debate: how useful do you find these assessment tools? Drop us a message…

Don’t miss our three takeaway messages and please send us yours!

Enjoy the episode!

Raluca Vagner- Intensive Care Nurse @RalucaVagner

Chris Gough- Intensive Care Consultant @GoughC

Bianca, our hypothetical patient,  gets admitted from the ward with severe diarrhoea and a potassium of 7.5.

Join Raluca (ICU Nurse) and Chris (ICU Consultant) in discussing:

• What is “renal failure”
  
• How to prepare for this admission
  
• Treatment options for Bianca
  
• Renal Replacement theory: the principles
  

Don’t miss our three takeaway messages and please send us yours!

Enjoy the episode!

Raluca Vagner- Intensive Care Nurse @RalucaVagner

Chris Gough- Intensive Care Consultant @GoughCJ

Cara (our hypothetical patient) develops hypovolaemic shock following a laparotomy.

Join Raluca (ICU Nurse) and Chris (ICU Consultant) in a discussion about:

• What do we want to know from the handover?
  
• What is the management of hypovolaemic shock?
  
• Blood product and their importance
  
• Major Haemorrhage protocol
  

My (Raluca) lightbulb moment: Hb may not always drop enough to indicate a bleeding – find out why!

Don’t miss our three takeaway messages and please send us yours!

Enjoy the episode!

Raluca Vagner- Intensive Care Nurse @RalucaVagner

Chris Gough- Intensive Care Consultant @GoughCJ

Join Raluca (ICU Nurse) and Chris (ICU Consultant) in admitting and looking after our hypothetical patient Vincent who has presented to hospital in septic shock.

We will talk about:

• Types of shock
  
• How to prepare for this admission
  
• How to manage a patient with septic shock
  
• Use of vasoactive medication
  

Literature and research mentioned in the podcast:

• Sepsis Guidelines: https://sepsistrust.org/
  

And much more. Give away – the patient always gets better!

Don’t miss our three takeaway messages and please send us yours!

Enjoy the episode!

Raluca Vagner- Intensive Care Nurse @RalucaVagner

Chris Gough- Intensive Care Consultant @GoughCJ

This is a special episode where Raluca (ICU Nurse) is joined by Chris Gough, Intensive Care Consultant and Owen Gustafson, Intensive Care Physiotherapist.

We all talk about our experiences of going through a pandemic and the different challenges and successes we’ve encountered.

This is a fun conversation, but also a hard one. We share our worries, stresses, concerns and hoped for the future.

We leave you on a positive note, with food for thought: what three things would you change/implement/continue in your area of practice that can make the NHS the best place to work? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

Don’t miss our three takeaway messages and please send us yours!

Enjoy the episode!

Guests:

Raluca Vagner- Intensive Care Nurse @RalucaVagner

Chris Gough - Intensive Care Consultant; twitter handle: @GoughCJ

Owen Gustafson - Intensive Care Physiotherapist; twitter handle: @OxfordICUPhysio

Sarah Wong and Tina Plowman are two medical students who have been involved with organising the decolonising the medical curriculum movement at UCL. Last year they set up a facebook group, using the platform to organise regular discussions and roundtable talks, alongside students from other medical schools, discussing topics around racism, health inequalities and concepts around decolonisation in healthcare. In this episode they talk more about the work they are involved in, the purpose of the decolonising movement and put forward some solutions on ways to improve the medical curriculum today. 

Twitter: @decolonisingmed

Facebook: Decolonising the Medical Curriculum (https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonisingmed )

Email: decolonisingmed@outlook.com 

"Shantanu Kundu is a medical student at the University of Liverpool and founder of the Be Free Campaign, a charity that works across the country delivering workshops and holding street campaigns in the hope to demolish the stigma behind mental health. His organisation also works with Youtubers and influencers to promote positive mental health via their audience. Shantanu’s services to charity and commitment to helping the lives of others, resulted in him receiving the Diana awards in 2020, the highest accolade a young person can achieve for humanitarian effort and social action. 

In this episode we discuss why mental health is so important to talk about, the impact of COVID on students' mental health and the roles universities have to play in looking after their wellbeing. 

@shantanuknd  

@campaignbefree

www.shantanukundu.com

www.befreecampaign.org 

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Rebecca Lennox is a second year nursing student at John Moores University and alumni of the #150 Leaders Student Programme. Believing there was a huge gap in the care and treatment of people from the Deaf community, Rebecca and her colleague introduced British Sign Language classes for university staff and students, enlisting the help of a charity called Deaf Active. Demand for places were so high that now Rebecca is pushing for Sign Language classes to be on the  curriculum for all nursing students. In this episode, she talks more about her campaign and the importance of learning British Sign Language. We also discuss the relationship between medical students and nurses and how we can encourage greater collaboration between the two fields.

@StnBecca2
YouTube: Becca Lennox
https://www.deafactive.org/

James Frater is the co-founder of a social enterprise the Ladder Project, and the African and Caribbean Student Lead of King’s College London Widening participation programme. He is also part of Imperial's inaugural Black Students Advisory Panel and sits on the Youth Advisory Council for the Foundation for Education Development. To top it all off he is recognised as being one of the most outstanding students in the UK by Future Leaders, Rare Recruitment and The Association of Jamaican Nationals. And this is all while still being a medical student at Kings College London University.   In this episode, we discuss all things around access to medicine, improving diversity, forging partnerships and if BAME really is the right term to use.    Website: www.jamesfrater.com  Twitter: @jb100__ Instagram: jbbb100 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-frater/

Hammad Jeilani is the director and co-founder of a company called Apian, a healthcare startup that is using drones to improve access to healthcare in a faster and environmentally friendly manner.  Hammad is also a NHS clinical entrepreneur, a programme run by NHS England aimed to develop the next generation of leaders to help transform our healthcare system. And on the side he is also a medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In this episode we discuss Hammad's journey in setting up Apian, the potential that drones have in transforming healthcare delivery and if medical education today is truly reflective of the changing nature of the healthcare in the UK.

Apian: www.apian.aero
Twitter & Instagram handles: @apianaero
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apian

Rafia Miah is a final year medical student at the University of Southampton. She has been involved in numerous organisations and last year received a scholarship to be a part of the Healthcare Leadership Academy. Passionate about women’s health she has recently set up an organisation called Amar Doctor, meaning my doctor, an initiative specifically targeted towards Bengali women in the UK which aims to provide educational seminars on a variety of different health-related topics.

In this episode, we discuss why Bangladeshi women historically have the poorest health outcomes in the UK and strategies to address this issue. Rafia also shares her journey in setting up Amar Doctor, the importance of mentorship and ways to seek opportunities whilst in medical school.

Twitter: rafia_miah
LinkedIn: rafia-miah  
Instagram: rafiamiah
https://www.healthpioneerscharity.com/amar-doctor

In this episode of the Guide to Global Health, we will discuss Ahmed Alboksmaty’s journey from Egypt to the UK as a public health practitioner. Ahmed Alboksmaty is a medical doctor and a research associate in the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London. He has previously worked as a consultant in quality and patient safety for the WHO EMRO and earlier as a Medical Coordinator for a joint project between UNHCR and the Arab Medical Union. In addition, he has been granted some regional and international awards for youth leadership and entrepreneurship in public health.

In today's episode, we focus on leadership's underappreciated cousin Followership. We talk about Activist  Bayard Rustin and the importance of followership, in the development of a great leader, his mentee Martin Luther King Junior. We talk about the theory of Leader-follower relationships and how you can be the best type of follower.

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In the weeks' episode, we focussed on learning to innovate from scratch, and how to apply these skills to already existing organisations and products so that you can try this there too. We discussed how Da Vinci worked as a constant innovator and ways to think about innovating a new idea for yourselves, We also talked about  Thomas Eddison's employment of different types of innovation and what those types are.

We spoke about communication in this episode. Highlighting businesses which have really benefited from open communication methods. We talked through the 7 C’s of communication and spent some time reflecting on the ways we best receive information.

In this episode we talk  about team building ; touching on Prof Meredith Belbin’s 9 characteristics for team building. We close out the episode with Nandis' interview of the eminent Dr R Pickering.

In this episode, we focused on the skills you need to be a good treasurer. We started by talking about business models and the business model canvas, we considered the downfall of the infamous Woolworths, and we thought about the principle of decentralisation.

In this special episode, Tinaye Mapako interviews Dr Carina Dowson Project Co-ordinator for women in Healthcare Leadership (WIHL) at the HLA.  We talk about Leadership, getting more women involved in leadership, Who inspires her and why leadership is important for all doctors.

To Build A leader is a weekly podcast all about nurturing leadership skills join Med, Nandi and Tinaye as they break down leadership with cutting edge research, interviews and lots of fun too.