Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. We had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Ilun Yang, new program director of the general surgery residency program at McMaster University! Links: 1. https://twitter.com/mcmastersurgery 2. https://surgery.mcmaster.ca/divisions/general-surgery 3. https://www.instagram.com/macgensurg/?hl=en

We had the pleasure of catching up with Dr. Alex Mathieson for the 2nd year in a row to talk about the MUN general surgery residency program! YouTube: https://youtu.be/8Xn8KnamcQ0 Links: 1. https://www.mun.ca/medicine/surgery/ 2. https://www.instagram.com/mungensx/?hl=enen

We had the pleasure of speaking to new program director Dr. Michael McCall about the U of A general surgery residency program! YouTube version: https://youtu.be/iD40jZgXcvs Links: 1. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/... 2. Program Website: https://www.ualberta.ca/surgery/divis... 3. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uofagensurg/

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. We had the pleasure of speaking with program director and pediatric surgeon Dr. Sarah Jones about the Queen's University General Surgery Program! YouTube: https://youtu.be/RdoEpu_wGjM Links: 1. Queen's General Surgery Department: https://surgery.queensu.ca/postgraduate/general-surgery 2. Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueensGenSurg 3. Q...

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. It’s that time of year again, when we have the pleasure of interviewing and selecting our future colleagues. We are, of course, talking about the CaRMS interview process. Most of our listeners will know that CaRMS stands for Canadian Resident Matching Service. Interviews are well underway for final year medical students across the cou...

To obtain the transcript, please contact podcast.cjs@gmail.com. It’s that time of year again, when we have the pleasure of interviewing and selecting our future colleagues. We are, of course, talking about the CaRMS interview process. Most of our listeners will know that CaRMS stands for Canadian Resident Matching Service. Interviews are well underway for final year medical students across the cou...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e142-masterclass-dennis-kim-trauma-icu-rounds-fascial-dehiscence This week, we were joined by trauma surgeon and podcaster Dr. Dennis Kim. Dr. Kim, among many other things, hosts the very successful and highly educational  Trauma ICU Rounds podcast. We in Canada are lucky enough to have him back on Canadian soil, and so on this episode talked to...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e141-journal-club-morad-hameed-cardiac-injuries In this “journal club” edition of the podcast, we are joined by the thoughtful trauma guru Dr. Hameed to talk about his paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). This paper, authored by Drs. Ball, Lee, Kaminsky and Hameed gets at the “heart” of both the decision-making and technical aspects of...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e141-journal-club-morad-hameed-cardiac-injuries In this “journal club” edition of the podcast, we are joined by the thoughtful trauma guru Dr. Hameed to talk about his paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). This paper, authored by Drs. Ball, Lee, Kaminsky and Hameed gets at the “heart” of both the decision-making and technical aspects of...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e141-journal-club-morad-hameed-cardiac-injuries In this “journal club” edition of the podcast, we are joined by the thoughtful trauma guru Dr. Hameed to talk about his paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS). This paper, authored by Drs. Ball, Lee, Kaminsky and Hameed gets at the “heart” of both the decision-making and technical aspects of...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e138-heather-patterson-her-new-book-shadows-and-light-documenting-covid-19-and-burnout Sometimes it’s hard to process what we’ve all been through collectively over the last 2 years since the start of COVID-19. Canada's health care system is facing tremendous strain, and it’s likely fair to say that many health care workers are facing burnout. Our...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e137-elijah-dixon-mindfulness-meditation-and-being-past-president-cags-and-ahpba This week we caught up with Dr. Elijah Dixon, a liver and pancreas surgeon at the University of Calgary, to talk about mindfulness and meditation. Dr. Dixon really opened our eyes to how those practices might help us both inside and outside the operating room. We als...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e136-corrie-white-medical-office-assistants-setting-office-emrs-and-billing This week on the podcast we invited Corrie White, an absolutely fabulous and experienced Medical Office Assistant, to talk about what it takes to set up a well-functioning office. Corrie breaks down how to find a good assistant and what goes into setting up an efficient s...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e135-how-publish-papers-wendy-carroll This week we got to peek behind the curtains of academic publishing with Wendy Carroll. Wendy is the Managing Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal Group. Wendy had some amazing insights into what goes on during the submission process, as well as the overall landscape for journals in 2022. Perhap...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e134-masterclass-charles-vollmer-cystic-neoplasms-pancreas-part-2 Dr. Charles Vollmer is the Chief of GI surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and is a passionate pancreatic surgeon. This is the second part of our masterclass series with Dr. Vollmer on cystic lesions of the pancreas. In part II, Dr. Vollmer dives deep specifically on IPMNs, g...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e133-masterclass-charles-vollmer-types-and-workup-cystic-neoplasms-pancreas Dr. Charles Vollmer is the Chief of GI Surgery and Director of Pancreatic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a repeat guest of the show. We were lucky enough to have him do another masterclass for Cold Steel, this time on cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. In...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e132-donna-kimmaliardjuk-breaking-down-barriers-and-caring-indigenous-patients On this episode, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Donna Kimmaliardjuk (@DKimmaliardjuk on Twitter). Dr. Kimmaliardjuk is the first Inuk cardiac surgeon in Canada and has won numerous awards for her trailblazing work. We were lucky enough to catch up with her t...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e131-jeff-way-spirituality-surgery-managing-busy-practice-and-advocacy We touched some “taboo” subjects today on the podcast – money and religion! Dr. Jeff Way is a trauma and general surgeon in Calgary. Today we asked Dr. Way about his interest in spirituality and how that has affected his career, inside and outside the operating room. We got hi...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e130-homer-tien-ornge-emergency-transport-covid19-vaccine-distribution-leadership Dr. Homer Tien is a trauma surgeon at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. We were so excited to have him on the show because of the incredible work that he has done in multiple leadership roles, more recently as the president and CEO of ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance an...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e129-paul-mcbeth-engineering-and-surgery This week we heard from Dr. Paul McBeth, intensivist and trauma surgeon at the University of Calgary. Dr. McBeth combines his unique engineering background with surgery, and shared his insights on how we all might use an engineering mindset to discover new ways of looking at old problems. Links: 1. Robotic...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e128-helen-pham-australian-surgical-training-programs-and-advice-starting-residency A big welcome to all the new resident starting this week on their journeys to become physicians and surgeons. To help you on the journey, we caught up with Dr. Helen Pham. Dr. Pham is a clinical associate lecturer at the University of Sydney and is the current HPB...

Podcast transcript: https://www.canjsurg.ca/content/e127-rob-leeper-competitive-motivation-trauma-simulation-and-starting-out-practice Dr. Rob Leeper is a trauma surgeon at Western University in London, Ontario. We spoke with Dr. Leeper about his work on trauma simulation and particularly on his work on data drive competitive motivation strategies. Finally, Dr. Leeper shared with us the tips that...

Lauren Kirwan is the nurse clinician for general surgery at the Foothills Medical Centre. She is currently finishing up her nurse practitioner degree.  We wanted to ask Lauren her thoughts about what it means to be an OR nurse and what she wishes surgeons would do to make the OR environment better. We also hear about the impact of COVID19 on our nursing colleagues. We’d love to hear from our nurse...

We had the unique opportunity on this episode to speak with the Honourable Minister John Haggie. Dr. Haggie is a general surgeon who spent his career in Newfoundland and Labrador, and went on to become a Member of the House of Assembly in 2015. He was appointed to be the Minister of Health at that time and has continued to serve in that porfolio ever since. We spoke to him about his fascinating li...

This week on the podcast we spoke with Dr. Paul Engels, a trauma surgeon from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. We got into some pretty detailed discussions around trauma training specifically, but more broadly about how we define what a resident should be able to perform at the end of training.  Links: 1. The current state of resident trauma training: Are we losing a generation? https://p...