The Medical Women Podcast

Hello everyone! Over the next few weeks, we're going to be sharing live podcasts from our recent MWF Spring Conference. This week's guest is the fabulous Susie Edwards, who has of course been a guest on the podcast previously. Susie is a careers coach and founder of WonderIf. In this session, Susie spoke to us about finding fulfilment in our careers and gave us some helpful exercises we ca...

Hello lovely listeners! We've reached 7,000 listens in over 66 countries - thank you so much for listening and sharing the podcast!! We're so glad you find it helpful :) Please keep rating and reviewing. A different type of episode this week - Nuthana goes from being the host to being interviewee! This is a recast of Dr Rachel Morris' You Are Not A Frog podcast episode where Prrofessor...

Hello lovely listeners! Hope you have all had some lovely early April sunshine. Patients are the heart of everything we do as healthcare professionals. Patient safety is all of our priorities. But it wasn't until July 2022 that we had someone in the role of Patient Safety Commissioner, ensuring patients are at the heart of everything we do and that their voice is heard. Dr Henrietta Hughes is...

Hands up if you’re feeling exhausted? Or burnt out? Or really wishing there was another way to do things? Don't worry, you are not alone! This week, my guest is Dr Joanna Martin – former doctor, actor and now an amazing leadership and business coach. Jo is the CEO and founder of One of Many, an organisation that supports women to live the change and lead the change. Jo gives us an introduction...

Happy first day of Spring! The feeling of possibilities and new things is in the air. This week, our guest is Dr MaryAnn Ferreux, Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Group for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr Ferreux is the Chief Medical Officer at Integrated Care 24, a social enterprise delivering urgent care services for the NHS. She has international experience work...

Hello! This week, in celebration of Mother’s Day on Sunday 19th March, our guests are Dr Sola and Anna Riggs who host and produce the Mothers in Medicine Podcast. Sola and Anna share with us the common themes that have come up on their podcast, lessons learnt by mothers in medicine, and their top tips. Regardless of your motherhood status, we hope you find this helpful. And for all those who are b...

Hello! It's International Women's Day this week (8th March) and we wanted to make a very special episode to commemorate it. We had great intentions to curate a special episode of the creme de la creme of highlights from previous episodes. However, with busy work shifts, job applications and medical school placements and essays, we have not had time. So we'll make that for you another time. We spen...

Hello! Sorry the podcast is a bit late this week, Nuthana was working nights and had changeover to a new hospital and didn't quite manage to get the episode sorted to come out on time. She's embracing being a recovering perfectionist and accepting that it's better late than never! She also knows that you will understand and forgive her - she's trying to model that it's ok to be imperfect and that...

On the podcast, we like to have conversations that we need to have but might not have elsewhere.  This week, our guest is Ms Evelyn Mensah (Evie), a Consultant Ophthalmic surgeon and part of the medical workforce race equality standard (MWRES). Evie is committed to tackling inequalities, particularly pertaining to race. In this episode, we discuss how we can all call it out and call it in. We...

Do you consider yourself a possibilitist? What is a possibilist, you might be wondering? Well this week’s guest is leadership and executive coach, and self-diagnosed possibilist Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour. Gitanjali shares her take on the con of confidence, how we can all be more possibilist, and her view on imposter syndrome. We have a very special announcement to make - we have made membership...

Hello! Hope you are all well on this cold, crisp February morning. We’ve covered money mindset and wealth previously on the podcast, but with the cost of living crisis, we thought it would be helpful to touch on finances again. This week’s episode is with bestselling author and wealth coach Barbara Huson. Barbara joins us to share what she has learnt from her own life and through the research for...

Hello! Happy 106th Birthday to the Medical Women's Federation. To celebrate, we are launching Season 3 of the podcast.  This season is all about exploring possibilities. This week's guest is Professor Kate Thomas, Dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. Kate is only the second woman and the first GP to be Dean of Medicine at Birmingham. In this episode, she shares her career journey...

Hello!  Happy 2023!  It's the first birthday of The Medical Women Podcast - woohoo! And in celebration, we are launching Season 3, Exploring Possibilities. Hope you're as excited as we are!  We'll be speaking to a range of guests on exploring possibilities for our careers and our lives.  We're also doing some live in person podcasts at our upcoming MWF events which we would lov...

The Season 2 Finale is upon us already – doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! This week we are joined by one of the podcast’s biggest fans, Dr Charlotte Leach, a Palliative Care Consultant. Charlotte gives her advice for those transitioning from being a registrar to being a consultant, shares her thoughts on the importance of having interests outside medicine, and we had an in-depth discussion...

This season has been all about leadership, and a large part of being a leader is looking the part. Sadly women are judged far more on their appearance than what they say or do. Looking like a leader is a really important aspect of leadership. This week our guest is stylist and author Lizzie Edwards, whose book ‘Look like the leader you are: a 7 step style strategy for ambitious women’ has just bee...

Hello! This week, we are joined by the fabulous Dr Liz O’Riordan. Liz is a breast surgeon who then developed breast cancer herself. She has written several books and she speaks incredibly eloquently about her experience. In this episode, she shares what it was like to go from being doctor to patient, her experiences during surgical training and lessons she has learnt from her career and patient jo...

International medical graduates make up a huge proportion of the NHS workforce, and as we heard a few weeks ago, are more likely to be SAS doctors. But they face a huge amount of discrimination and racism. In this episode, we speak to the fabulous Professor Partha Kar, National Specialty Adviser for Diabetes at NHS England, BMJ columnist and doing a huge amount of work to tackle racism in the medi...

Do you have a wardrobe full of clothes and yet nothing to wear? Do you find that you spend a lot of time and energy working out what to wear when you’d rather be spending that headspace on other decisions? Deep breath. You’re not the only one! This week, our guest is style expert Helen Reynolds. Helen shares her top tips for how we can work out what our style is in the first place, how to organise...

Does General Medical Council equate to Fitness to Practice in your head and cause palpitations? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. At medical school, we get taught little else about the work of the GMC. But what do the GMC actually do, and what does being the Chair of the GMC involve? In this episode, our guest is Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan, Chair of the GMC. We discuss the wider work of the GMC an...

Hello! Are you familiar with the term SAS doctor? SAS doctors make up 30% of the medical workforce, and yet, many of us have no idea what the term means. Thankfully, our guest this week is here to educate us. Dr Anthea Mowat is a retired Associate Specialist in Anaesthesia, and also our wonderful MWF Honorary Secretary. She explains what exactly constitutes SAS doctors, and how we can all go about...

Hello! Over the last two weeks we’ve spoken to two Royal College Presidents, and they both mentioned how all the Royal College Presidents work together as part of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. This week’s guest is the Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard. Helen is an academic GP and has been previous Chair of the Royal College of GPs. In this...

Last week we learnt about being the President of a newer Royal College and this week we learn about being President of the Royal College of Physicians. Our guest this week is Professor Sir Bod Goddard, Immediate Past President of the RCP and Gastorenterology Consultant. He shares his experience of being President of the RCP, the history of the RCP and words of wisdom for our leadership journeys. A...

This Season is all about asking questions (it is a podcast after all), particularly what and how questions. First up – have you ever wondered what the President of a Royal College actually does? So have we, and that’s what we’re exploring today. This week’s guest is Dr Camilla Kingdon, the current President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Camilla is a Consultant Neonatologist...

We're back with season 2 and here's a sneak peak of all the exciting episodes we have coming up!  Also, some public service announcements.  Our Autumn conference is taking place on Friday 18th November in Nottingham, register here: https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/news-events/conference  To donate to the Medical Women's Federation, click here: https://www.medicalwomensfede...

We're back with another special episode! It's September and that means we're welcoming new medical students to University and the wards! In this special episode, we hear from four medical women who have been involved with the Medical Women's Federation since they were medical students. They share their advice for those starting medical school and those commencing their clinical years. We also have...