Kindness, Curiosity and Comfortable Shoes James McFetrich

Send us a Text Message.A compilation episode of the last 5 episodes:2:17 IkigaiA Japanese concept of finding fulfilment or purpose in life.As simply as possible it represents the intersection of four ingredients in life:What you love,What the world needs,What you can be paid for, andWhat you are good at.If your working life can be covered by all those areas that is ikigai.The best diagram I found to describe this is at betterup.com:https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigaiAnd the best desc...

Send us a Text Message.It's time for JMACeducation to refocus, and the podcast is going to be paused for a while.When did you last refocus your workload?How do you meet the challenge of more goals being added to your work?Some thoughts about how to manage it in this episode.Support the Show.Thanks for listening,James@JMACeducation

Send us a Text Message.AssessmentIt's exam season in the UK, as well as lots of people requesting work-place based assessments for their portfolios.This is not a comprehensive guide on how to pass exams, however, some thoughts on simple presentation techniques to come across more professional and how to interact with an examiner and a patient while being assessed.For specific in depth information on clinical exam techniques, skills and knowledge I can thoroughly recommend Geeky Medics: https:...

Send us a Text Message.LeadershipAll workers in healthcare are leaders in some form, from small projects with one team member to large scale managerial teams via spontaneous clinical teams that need to be lead in the moment.This podcast focuses on Kindness, Curiosity and Comfortable shoes and how they apply to leadership.Be kind to others, they will be kind to you in return and you will be a better person by being kind.Awareness of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is helpful: https://en.wikipedia....

Send us a Text Message.ErrorDefinition: The state of being wrong in judgementWe are human and as such we are all prone to errors. In this episode I tell the story of a medical error I made and explore what happened.As well as trying to reduce error as individuals we need to understand that they will happen and understand what we can learn from them, both for ourselves, and also for our colleagues and the systems we work in.A lighter look at an error in the Oscars ceremony in 2017, which you c...

Send us a Text Message.IkigaiA Japanese concept of finding fulfilment or purpose in life.As simply as possible it represents the intersection of four ingredients in life:What you love,What the world needs,What you can be paid for, andWhat you are good at.If your working life can be covered by all those areas that is ikigai.The best diagram I found to describe this is at betterup.com:https://www.betterup.com/blog/what-is-ikigai And the best description of the philosophy of ikigai is at Po...