It was a privilege to contribute to this wonderful resource. btw, it's free, and available for EVERYONE- you don't have to be a member of RCOG. Just create an account, and you're in. Let's all build #NoToRacism🙅🏻‍♀️ into our work and #MedEd!✊️ MORE: www.rcog.org.uk/careers-and-...

Incredible skies after a thumpingly heavy thunderstorm.

'Aboriginal art is all just dots' no... no it really isn't mate. I'm very lucky to work in a place surrounded by gorgeous art like this. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe 🖤💛♥️

Dr Clare McNaught is set to officially take office as RCSEd's new President tomorrow (14 November) at the College's AGM. Dr McNaught succeeds Professor Rowan Parks, who has served as the College's President for the last three years. Read more: https://bit.ly/3XxrhwN #OperatingAsOne

Extraordinary that the obvious connection between treating people well and resultant performance/wellbeing is treated like revelatory news in medicine. Regionally in my experience the MOCA appears to be treated like an aspirational goal rather than a bare minimum employment requirement.

This podcast got voted the Melbourne ABC podcast of the year. I take calls from the listeners, I get a cranky dad and a lovely Rabbi. I get the what is Mike Tyson became a woman question. The whole hour is full of experts. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#ANZPMEF sure knows how to throw a masquerade gala dinner. What a incredible setting. My mask is very bling-y (thanks Spotlight!) and it's not even the most sparkly thing here 🤩

Updating the Sargent R2C2 (2017) feedback framework to 'R2CPC', Dr Andrew Huang puts in the 'P' of Perspective shift, adapted from Balint work (1957). #ANZPMEF #MedEd

'Med school is a walk in the park if the park is on fire and you're being chased by wild dogs'. Michelle Leech, president of Medical Deans ANZ notes multiple factors causing 60% of medical students to be on Centrelink. The success of widening access, needs to be matched by SUPPORT. #MedEd #MedSky

A/Prof Leonnie Griffiths presents fab qualitative work about feedback in #MedEd and notes that we pay insufficient attention to the emotional and temporal content of feedback. 'Lack of insight' might very well be an appropriate, self-aware pause to allow sense-making. #ANZPMEF

Christopher Watling #ANZPMEF talks about the unease of supervisors doing both assessment and feedback; how high-frequency tools like EPAs can drive poor quality; and the need for lots of 'no-stakes time' to avoid CBME-based programs feeling like an extended job interview. #MedSky #MedEd

My partner @dylangriff10.bsky.social recently had to go to the ED at Fiona Stanley and had only good things to say about his experience. Not surprised that things are organised well behind the scenes.

Dr Anvesh Chalasani, PGY2, describes initiatives such as Low Paging Hour to improve resident nutrition as a human factors QI intervention. Still much to be done however- residents self-rated their nutrition only 6.6/10 on non surgical and 5.4/10 on surgical terms. #ANZPMEF

Rory Trawber reports on co-locating med ed, workforce (HR) and strategy and service (research and QI) into a single Doctor Support Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital Perth. A 'Never Say No' leave policy! Paid in-person attendance at Grand Rounds! Better doctor retention! 🎉 #ANZPMEF

Prof Phillippa Poole compares graduation intention vs actual workforce, with surgery over- and GP under-subscribed. However, PhD of Antonia Verstappen, longitudinally tracking individual drs, busts the idea of a 'pipeline' and highlights pitfalls of selecting too early. #ANZPMEF25 #MedSky

Opening keynote at #ANZPMEF25 by Prof Sheona Macleod paints a level of support in the NHS for neurodiverse doctors that is almost unimaginable in Australia. Neurodiversity *assessments* provided by the majority of trusts! (In Oz we all pay $$$ privately). #MedSky #MedEd

I don’t quite know why we are #snailposting today but it seems to ba a ‘thing’ so here goes: Trochulus hispidus the Hairy #Snail seen in Dudley, UK. I haven’t seen them often so I was excited to see this little they/them moving across a limestone quarry. #gastropod #mollusc

Ping @liangrhea.bsky.social. Seems like your kinda problem.

Mmmm, fresh-baked bread smell. I do a pretty good impression of 'trad wife'. 🤣 (Laucke multigrain mix + extra cup of buckwhear flour + 8g dried yeast, double-risen in the usual way then braided into a pull-apart loaf).

When I was doing my DPhil in Oxford I went to a talk he gave. It was excruciating: in content & his then views. A senior colleague said “you can only get away with this if you have a Nobel prize” I’ve met other Nobel Laureates who were amazing intellects but also humble: I’d hope he was an outlier

You need a lot less than a nobel prize to get away with a lot of bigotry in science even today. It's a myth to pretend like it's just happens because of some imagined exceptional genius outweighs it. Neither is half as true as they think and we lose out on the geniuses they push away.

Certainly learnt to be resilient, creative & persistent in an environment where you were tolerated but not ‘enabled to thrive’ . The idea that Ginger Roger’s did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards & in high heels resonated, as well as this quote👇🏽. Also defined my own view of ‘success’

“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed”

And wasn't it Rosalind Franklin who actually did most of discovery? And then 3 men got the Nobel prize?

This discovery eventually won the Eureka Award. The initial response of the HOD is such a powerful example of how systemic sexism bakes bias into any selection process based on conventional measures of 'merit' or 'achievement'.

Utterly tragic- not helped by Nine news editors' dreadful double negative that implies blame. (To be clear- there is NO blame for train driver or parents at this time). 💔

Yikes. Time to batten the hatches... 😱⛈️

Oh boy. Just wait until the 'No More Woke Woollies' Facebook pages get a load of this 🤣. 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤💛❤️

For those saying James Watson's intellectual brilliance made his bigotry an acceptable trade-off, might I point out (Exhibit A below 👇) that one brain ought to be easily big enough to be a genius AND a decent human being. We don't call bigotry 'small mindedness' for nothing.

I love that bubble tea toppings are now available online, because they're still scarce in Asian groceries. Cheaper to make our own bubble teas, and more convenient- and we can use fruit from our garden, and have the ice and sugar levels just how we like.

An older male surgeon, spotting my bag at a student career event, said 'Oh! do you want to be a surgeon?' and tried to tell me why it's a great choice. 🤣 That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗

Ok #MedSky #SurgSky, this one's pretty specific- if you are a rural general surgeon in public practice in China, and *not* (yet) a Fellow of @racsurgeons.bsky.social, there is a travel grant up to $10K available to visit our Annual Scientific Congress. Applications close 22 Dec. More-

Nearly there! Popped in a few other useful things too- notebooks, pens, handbags... #ItsInTheBag #ShareTheDignity

Imagine being a successful singer, songwriter and actor like Danielle Spencer and not only being reduced by Nine news to 'Russell Crowe's ex-wife' but also your life-threatening splenic aneurysm surgery reduced to a mere 'health scare'. And we wonder why women feel dismissed. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #misogyny

Fascinating @racsurgeons.bsky.social Academy of Surgical Educators webinar on Prof Sarah Aitken's year as Harkness Fellow in the US, and the switch to euphemisms like 'mission alignment' 'holistic review' or 'valuing life journeys' instead of the D word (diversity) in trainee selection. #MedSky

As same to you too❣️ Morning from Oxford

21 years ago we had stillborn twins. It still hurts. I cannot express in words the loathing I feel about these men. To suggest people would cash in on such excruciating loss says everything you need to know about these “moral conservatives.” Arseholes. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

A gorgeous sunset after recent wild weather. Wishing you the same peace, whatever your storms. 🤗🙏

I will never forget my neurosurgeon coming in to reassure me before I was wheeled into theatre for minimally invasive brain surgery. Amazing that such procedures exist, thanks to surgical research.

Fun fact: the practice of uroscopy- on which literal volumes were written- included tasting the urine. For example, diabetes causes sweet-tasting urine. Less well known- this had to be done with the urine still at body temperature, to avoid crystals. Monsieur, a warm 'wee' apéritif? 🤢 #MedSky

This is my mother's obituary in @thetimes.com. (Not my writing!) It's crazy how her life stretched across so much change. RIP.

Another look at this morning's (Monday 3 November) sunrise. Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand

We start 'em young over here 🤣❤️🔪 #MedSky #MedEd (Da Vinci robotic trainer at a #SurgEd event)

Flowers of Fiji. And a tiny butterfly. 🤗 #Gardening #GardenSky

Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids that are often overlooked. They prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies. Pseudoscorpions will sometimes hitch rides to new locations on other insects. #Arachtober

The new site is garbage and you can bring up rain reflectivity but I think it may default to rainfall total for whatever stupid reason They have wasted so much money The consultants should be run out of town for taking tax payer dollars and delivering rubbish

After a 7 year hiatus, what a wonderful meeting of PISA (Pacific Islands Surgical Association), the G4 Alliance, @racsurgeons.bsky.social, NGOs, and international stakeholders including @who.int. We will continue the work, reinvigorated by the shared goal of #HealthEquity and #sustainability. 💪

The Aussie BOM website after 'reverting' to old settings is still hopeless. On the left, the radar 1hr loop on the old site (reg.bom.gov.au); on the right, the new pastel-coloured wishy-washy version- same radar, same time, same scale, same 1 hr loop. Storm incoming!! ⛈️

What a disappointment for QLD ballet fans. With a new mantra of 'connecting with diverse audiences' and promising a 'new Nutcracker just for QLD' they ...bring in two white British men for more of the same old. There is SO MUCH unique to QLD that would *truly* refresh 'the Cracker'. 😖

“When someone says, ‘We're going to help you make an autonomous decision’, they're usually talking about one person. My understanding of autonomy is collective. So... it's not going to be informed, because I need to consider those around me too.” Colonial notions of privacy vs #CulturalSafety.