How will you contribute to the college
CAP
C:
- Hardworking, enthusiastic, easy to teach.
- EBM -> woman centred care
- Colleagues: reliable, Goes extra mile
A:
- Research: Surg/Urol/O&G/Medical recruitment).
- Masters: Bioethics-> pt autonomy
P:
- Passion -> Regional Womens health
- Lived experience of health inequalities
- Return to Regional Australia -> serve community with sub-speciality
What makes a good Mentor
Empathy
- Intense issues in O&G -> empathy allows the best delivery of care
- Colleagues: Empathetic individual-> deliver personalised care
Communication
- Wide range of situations -> appropriate communication for environment
Colleagues: Excellent communicator, multiple different audiences and situations
Self-awareness/Regulation
- Taxing profession, selfawareness allows best decisions at all times
Colleagues: well measured, maintains perspective in order to deliver best care
What challenges may you face as a trainee in 2022
Move to Metropolitan hopsital/Different location
- Away from Hospital network
- Away from Support network
READY: regional work -> multiple different styles + locums + strong support network _ outgoing -> new friends/connections
Learning Curve + Increased Complexity
- Initial years of RANZCOG training -> amassing of technical + non-technical skills
- Regional work only, minimal high complexity experience
READY: Enthusiastic, eager to learn and easy to teach. Ask for support when needed
Why are you ready to begin training in 2022
Hardworking + CLINICALLY COMPETENT
- Constantly working to improve
- Major focus on women centre care
- Senior body had faith in my ability within 4 mths of being a registrar I was promoted to overnight O&G registrar night duty
PROOF: Request Frequent feedback, courses + masters degree
Adaptable
- Working well in environ of change -> ask questions, seek support
- Take responsibility for changes and assist others
PROOF: Remarked upon for ability to escalate care in emergency situations
Enthusiastic + Eager to learn and easy to teach
- Very keen to return to a regional area and provide a service for regional women
What areas of you professional/personal do you consider need developing
Self Awareness/Regulation
- I AM self aware + able to maintain perspective.
- O&G is stressful -> can lose perspective
- High level self awareness/regulation allows clinical leadership in difficult/time critical situations
HOW will I improve: AMA ELP collaborative leadership
What are the challenges and rewards of a career in O&G
Challenges
- Burden outside of work
- On call, missing important moments - High stress/emotional/risk work
- Bad outcomes, difficult situations with layered complexities
How will I manage: Strong support networks + selfawareness and adequate time away from work
Rewards
- Intimate involvement in intimate life moments across lifespan
- Only true generalist speciality training program
How have you Contributed to your Community in the last 5 yrs
Smith family Tutorting
- Ethic/ATSI background
- 20 + hrs of time
- Working currently with a graduate
Novel teaching program
- Interns as teachers, program still going strong
- hotly received, final year students felt confident going forward into internships
Young industry ambassador
- Promote health careers to students from disadvantaged schools regularly
- As someone from a disadvantaged background in regional Victoria brings me great pride to be able to inspire young people like someone did for me
Why do you want to be on the O&G training program
- Good program
- Wide exposure to different clinical environments, experts, research exposure + rural term - O&G excellent area
- Intimate exposure to life changing moments
- Only true generalist speciality
Why do you want to work in O&G
- Intimate exposure to key life moments
- Intimate exposure to key moments in womens life
- Special role of being able to assist women navigate these key experiences safely - True generalist Speciality
- Acute and chronic care
- Broad skillset ( Physician + Surgeon) - Provides me with an avenue to peruse other interested outside of clinical medicine -> bioethics and improving shared decision making and women centred care
Tell us about some recent negative feedback you have received
surgical technique critique
