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Today we meet Claudia at the end of her student placement at The Royal Children's Hospital. Unlike other podcasts in this series, Claudia just joins us for this one. Nonetheless, she gives us a good look at her last 12 weeks of experience within the hospital environment.

Remember Phoebe? We had a chat with her in Episode 29 when she first started her Medical Imaging placement at the RCH. Phoebe is a 4th year medical imaging student midway into her placement. We check in with her again to see how she is going. 

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Nicola about her Social Work placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Nicola is at the midway point of her placement with the Social Work team at RCH. In later episodes, we will catch Nicola at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Phoebe about her Medical Imaging placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Phoebe is at the start of her placement.  In later episodes, we will catch Phoebe midway and lastly, at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Nicola about her Social Work placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Nicola is at the start of her placement with the Social Work team at RCH. In later episodes, we will catch Nicola midway and lastly, at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

Working in healthcare can take an emotional toll as we are continuously exposed to emotionally challenging environments. In this discussion, social workers Robyn Clark and Leah Rotin, talk about strategies for how we look after each other and ourselves on a day-to-day basis, as well as the importance of a work-life balance. 

Laura is a nursing student halfway through a six-week placement at the RCH. This placement is also Laura’s last clinical placement before finishing her degree. Laura talks to us about coming from a rural area to undertake a placement at a tertiary hospital, and about being involved in caring for patients and families who have experienced emergency situations.  

To improve and maintain the efficiency of healthcare, the team environment needs to work very well together. But how much do you know about the knowledge and skill set of other members of your team? In this podcast, we chat with Jo Bolton from the University of Melbourne who discusses inter-professional education and why it is so important to ensuring a healthy team dynamic.  https://www.anzahpe.o...

Failing a student is not an easy task and can also take a toll on both the assessor and the learner. Sometimes it's just easier to pass them and handball the problem to the next assessor. In this podcast, Dr Cate Scarff talks about the ramifications of 'Failing to Fail' a student and how we all have a responsibility to maintain public safety.  

It's great to supervise a high achieving student. Or is it? It may seem like they are able to learn easily and complete tasks efficiently, but what effect is this having on the student? We talk with Sophie Crotti who has researched the area of the high achieving student, where the supervision of them may not be as easy as it seems.

Being involved in highly stressful situations can take an emotional toll, particularly when you’re expected to go straight back to work following the event. In this podcast, we chat with TJ Clark who is a staff psychologist in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at RCH. TJ talks about her role and how we can help each other to deal with these situations safely. 

We’re very much aware of the impact that Covid had on the teaching and learning of healthcare students. How did this affect their clinical education? Medical Imaging Clinical Tutors, Adam Steward (Western Health) and Steve Lacey (RCH) discuss the results of their research into the effects that restrictions had on clinical placement for students and their preparedness to enter the workforce? 

The Education Hub ran an event on December 1st 2022, to showcase our department. Members of the Hub presented their projects and educational opportunities available to the Melbourne Children’s Campus. In this podcast, we roam around the showcase and chat with The Education Hub staff about their roles, as well as some of the visitors who share their experiences.   

Your student comes to placement every day smelling of body odor and you need to address this. Sometimes, we need to have awkward conversations with students, and this is not something that you train for. Here, we present different, yet common scenarios to 2 clinicians to see how they would react.

You’ve submitted the application and now you’ve been offered an interview! How do you make a good impression and provide the best answers to those questions to get that job? In this second episode on job applications, we talk to Sharon Downie, Director of Medical Workforce at RCH and discuss everything about the interview, including what to wear, what to say and how to say it!  

In this second part of our series on patient centred care, we explore some tips of how to approach discussions with patients and parents. Amanda Stock from RCH Emergency and Marnie Pascoe from RCH Comfort Kids discuss recognising the signs of the concerned parent and how to approach each patient encounter.  

A patient centred care environment in the workplace begins with how we care for each other as a team. In the first of the series on patient centred care, we hear from the founder of the Hush Foundation, Dr Cathy Crock, who discusses her journey through establishing a patient centred care environment and how we can be kind to one another to improve the interactions with our patients.  www.hush.org....

In part 2 of this series on Clinical Supervision, we speak with Danni Tassoni and Michaela Comito from the RCH Dietetics Department. They take us through how they used the Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework to implement a very successful departmental clinical supervision program.   

Where do you start when you want to do research? Why bother going through the whole process? In this episode, we speak with PhD candidates Sarah, Yasemin and Douglas, who share their own experiences. We'll discuss concepts involving "research before research", networking and co-design. Their insights and advice on how to make the most out of your own research journey will appeal to many.

The competition for jobs is high and you desperately want that interview. How do you make that CV and cover letter stand out amongst the crowd? Abbey Gordon from the RCH Medical Workforce Unit & Claudia Barriga from Nursing Education give us some tips to ensure your cover letter and CV catch the eye of the employer.

The Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision framework outlines the principles that underpin high quality clinical supervision and what clinicians, teams and organisations can do to support this. We talk with Marcus Gardner who describes that aspects of clinical supervision and how the framework can help clinicians and organisations implement and improve their own clinical supervision programs...

Today we're speaking with Dr Jye Gard. Jye is the Lead Paediatric Clinical Teaching Fellow and Education Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne and a consultant paediatrician. He has recently published a paper looking at how medical education has changed as a result of the pandemic and how it has impacted the self-perception of junior doctors’ education and training needs.

Feedback is a very important part of our work. Most of us want to receive it, but most of us don’t want to give it. In this episode, we chat with Elisha Matthews from Allied Health and Dr Peter Howe from Anaesthetics who discuss some feedback structures and how you can do away with the “feedback sandwich”.

The Paediatric Academy is a new and exciting University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics initiative. This is a digital platform, much like LinkedIn, that will allow paediatric clinicians and educators to network with other healthcare professionals all over the world. We talk with those behind the scenes, Phoebe Malone and Lichin Lim, who tell us about it and how you can get involved.

Should you use social media for your professional work? Which platform best suits what you want to achieve? What are the legalities around it? We talk with Dr Lexi Frydenberg who helps us answer these questions and discusses how you can get the best out of using social media for professional gain. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Social media: How to meet your obligations under t...