Talking about medicine & the arts

Welcome to our tenth Medicine 360 podcast, in which Riki Msindo -- an (accidental) stand-up comedian and a Bristol medical student -- discusses comedy and medicine. Where does stand-up comedy fit into a medical education? Are medical professionals more likely to be comics than non-medics, or just to have a darker sense of humour? How important is being a good performer to being a good doctor? How goofy are doctors? Do specialities produce their own characters? (If character is not quite destiny, is it at least your speciality?) Is medical life more like House or Scrubs? Just what is comedy, anyway? And is it good for your health? Confused? You won't be, after this week's podcast from Medicine360... Includes advice for aspiring doctor-comics (opening for Russell Howard and Nathan Caton not guaranteed). This podcast is hosted by Vinay Mandagere, a Junior Doctor at Bristol. More information can be found at medicine360.co.uk. Riki Msindo and Mark Olver have their own podcast, 'Oh Captain, My Captain' on Spotify and Anchor.

Welcome to our ninth Medicine 360 podcast, in which Dr Jonathon Tomlinson, Dr Claire Ashley and Dr Ishminder Mangat discuss the role shame can play in Medicine. Is shame an inevitable aspect of healthcare and has its presence become more or less pronounced? What can trigger shame in doctors and patients? And how can we navigate this going forward? Dr Jonathon Tomlinson is a GP and author of blog "A Better NHS" (https://abetternhs.net/about/), where he explores the nature of the doctor-patient relationship. He also sits on the advisory board for the "Medicine and Shame" research project (https://shameandmedicine.org/). Dr Claire Ashley is a GP, aesthetician and career coach who uses her own experiences of stress and burnout to advocate for the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals via various platforms including instagram. She can be found @drclaireashley.   Dr Ishminder Mangat is a junior doctor in Bristol interested in exploring the links between medicine and the humanities. She has recorded podcasts for Medicine360 on the topics of death and dying, and creative writing for therapeutic purposes.  This podcast is hosted by Dr Kaat Marynissen, a junior doctor in Lancashire. More information can be found at Medicine360.co.uk

Welcome to our first student-hosted Medicine 360 podcast, in which Dr Nicola Taylor and Dr Bethan John discuss some of the things which can happen when doctors struggle with their health. How does it feel as a medical professional to go to ask help from another medical professional? Do doctors make worse patients? Do doctors and medical students think about their own illnesses differently from non-medical professionals? What barriers are there to medical professionals asking for help? How dangerous to a medical professional's career is mental illness? Or taking time off sick ? How does the GMC regulatory process work? (What should you *really* not do as a student?) How might medical education change to better support trainee doctors? Is the notion of (individual) resilience helpful? What of acceptance and compassion for oneself? What of being ‘good enough'? Nicola Taylor is a consultant liaison psychiatrist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. She is also a Senior Tutor at Bristol Medical School and so has many years' experience of the difficulties faced by medical students in training. Bethan John is a doctor who has written about her own experience of burnout and mental illness. She was a neurosurgery trainee for six years, and is now about to begin to train as a GP. She continues to learn about mental health and well-being and is keen to focus on this in her future GP career. The podcast is hosted by Damisi Dare, a second-year medical student at the University of Bristol with an interest in the health and well-being of doctors. We hope you enjoy listening. ** Glossary of some medical initialisms used in this podcast ** GPST — General Practitioner Speciality Training ARCP — Annual Review of Competence Progression CCT — certificate of completion of training Details of some support services resources that may be useful can be found at: https://www.medicine360.co.uk/post/what-happens-when-doctors-get-sick

Welcome to our eighth Medicine 360 podcast, in which Professor Havi Carel, Dr Sam Guglani and Louise Winter discuss the topics of death and dying. What makes people afraid of death? Has the pandemic impacted peoples' perception of death and dying? Does death give meaning and significance to our lives? How might an awareness of our mortality alter the ways in which we live and conduct our lives? Havi Carel is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and has published many books and articles on philosophy and illness. Sam Guglani is a Consultant Oncologist in Cheltenham, an author, and the founder of Medicine Unboxed, a festival and web resource that examines the links between medicine and the arts. Louise Winter is a progressive funeral director in London and co-author of We all know how this ends.* The podcast is hosted by Ishminder Mangat, a junior doctor in Bristol. We hope you enjoy listening. *Podcast includes code for a 25% discount at Bloomsbury.com

Welcome to our seventh medicine360 podcast, in which the topic of discussion is the role of narrative in illness and medicine. Kerry Mead is a freelance writer from Bristol who created www.19stories.net, a digital archive of the stories of ordinary people recounting their various experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here she is in conversation with Dr Jasmine Virk, a Junior Doctor who qualified at the beginning of the pandemic. They discuss the archive and the felt importance of sharing our stories, and look particularly at how the pandemic has effected the experiences of motherhood, isolation, and community.

Welcome to our sixth Medicine 360 podcast, where the topic of discussion is Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a common, yet often misunderstood condition. This podcast is the second half of a conversation with Jon Stone, Professor and Consultant Neurologist at Edinburgh University, and Katy Rose Bennett, a singer/songwriter who has FND. The podcast is hosted by Vinay Mandagere (Final Year medical student, Bristol). We hope you enjoy listening. Further information on FND can be found on Professor Stone's self-help website, www.neurosymptoms.org.

Welcome to our sixth Medicine 360 podcast, where the topic of discussion is Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a common, yet often misunderstood condition. This podcast is the first half of a conversation with Jon Stone, Professor and Consultant Neurologist at Edinburgh University, and Katy Rose Bennett, a singer/songwriter who has FND. The podcast is hosted by Vinay Mandagere (Final Year medical student, Bristol). We hope you enjoy listening. Further information on FND can be found on Professor Stone's self-help website, www.neurosymptoms.org.

Welcome to our fifth Medicine 360 podcast which explores how creative writing can be used for therapeutic purposes. This podcast is a conversation with Caleb Parkin, a poet and experienced facilitator of writing groups in a diverse range of contexts. He won the second prize in the National Poetry competition in 2016 and was recently appointed Bristol City poet. Here he talks about how he came to do what he does, the practices he has found most useful, and the importance of museums and the ways in which we interact with them. He also reads some of his own poetry (including 'Somewhere To Keep The Rain'). He is the former membership secretary for Lapidus: The writing for well-being association. This podcast is hosted by Ishminder Mangat (junior doctor in Bristol). We hope you enjoy listening.

Welcome to the second part of our fourth Medicine 360 podcast, where we explore the practical uses of medical humanities, why we should be listening to the particular words patients use to convey their experiences, and the relationship between creativity and psychopathology. This podcast is the second half of a conversation with Oluwafemi (Femi) Oyebode, Honorary Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist at ICS, University of Birmingham, and author of Sims Symptoms in the Mind. He has written substantially about the Medical Humanities, and has published several books of poetry. The podcast is hosted by Vinay Mandagere (4th year MB ChB student, Bristol), with John Lee, Programme Director of the intercalated BA in Medical Humanities at the University of Bristol. We hope you enjoy listening.

Welcome to our fourth Medicine 360 podcast, where we explore the practical uses of medical humanities, why we should be listening to the particular words patients use to convey their experiences, and the relationship between creativity and psychopathology. This podcast is the first half of a conversation with Oluwafemi (Femi) Oyebode, Honorary Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist at ICS, University of Birmingham, and author of Sims Symptoms in the Mind. He has written substantially about the Medical Humanities, and has published several books of poetry. The podcast is hosted by Vinay Mandagere (4th year MB ChB student, Bristol), with John Lee, Programme Director of the intercalated BA in Medical Humanities at the University of Bristol. We hope you enjoy listening.

Welcome to our third Medicine 360 podcast where we explore mental health, stigma, and the performing arts. This podcast is an interview with Dr Ahmed Hankir, Academic Clinical Fellow in General Adult Psychiatry at South London and the Maudsley, hosted by Vinay Mandagere (4th year MB ChB student, Bristol). Dr Hankir is the creator of “The Wounded Healer”, an innovative method of education and entertainment that blends the performing arts with psychiatry. We hope you enjoy listening. https://www.ahmedhankir.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=w8QV07_Je4I&feature=emb_title www.twitter.com/ahmedhankir https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health

Welcome to this Medicine360.co.uk podcast where we explore themes of mental health, wellbeing and mindfulness. We take a look at the intrinsic links between lifestyle factors and mental wellbeing and take time to remember the importance of caring for caregivers and health and social care professionals at a moment when it could not be more poignant. Hosted by Josie Harrison (4th-year medical student), this podcast's special guest is Jill Scott, a Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Consultant who combines her freelance career with a part-time role for Macmillan Cancer Support, as a Development Lead for people living with cancer. We hope you enjoy listening. Please find the links referenced in the podcast listed below: www.macmillan.org.uk/ www.macmillan.org.uk/coronavirus/he…lbeing-support www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-m…aying-at-home-tips/ www.mind.org.uk/ www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/…m-pfWRddVpgLqow www.medicine360.co.uk/post/a-junior-…pective-part-5 www.nutrition-wellbeing.co.uk/

Rissa Mohabir is Director of Trauma Awareness, provider of trauma-informed training and facilitator of listening projects. In this medicine360.co.uk podcast, Rissa shares her personal journey of how and why she developed safe listening spaces for refugee women, describing the impact of war and their journey to safety. She reads excerpts from a collection of their evocative narratives from two books: 'Under the Shade of a Tree: Somali Women Speak' (Bristol) and 'Leaving Our Homeland: Syria to the Isle of Bute' (Scotland).