Episodes

  • NovPod, a beginner's guide to anaesthetics, Episode 16 - top ten tips

    NovPod, a beginner's guide to anaesthetics, Episode 16 - top ten tips
    Sep 5 2024
    In this follow-up to the first NovPod series, Drs Eoin Dore and Duncan Kemp discuss their top ten takeaway tips for the Novice anaesthetist, adapted from a talk they gave at an RCoA event in late 2023. Duncan and Eoin talk about resources, evidence for the IAC, active learning, the importance of rest when doing late shifts, and more.

    For anyone who wants a re-cap of the key messages from the Novice Pod series, or needs a quick TL:DR for their new novice period, listen on!

    Resources and links:
    • Novice Guide
    • Wellbeing hub
    • The stage 1 document by the association of anaesthetists
    • Feedback link
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    25 mins
  • Is War Good for Medicine? Motivation and Innovation

    Is War Good for Medicine? Motivation and Innovation
    Aug 23 2024
    This podcast is part of a mini series of 3, looking at how military medicine has transferred to civilian practice and vice-versa. Each part has been recorded as a stand alone episode so you can listen to them in any order you like. Join the outgoing Surgeon General, Major General Tim Hodgetts, Professor and Retired Colonel, Peter Mahoney and Retired Colonel 'Jag' Jagdish as they reflect on their experiences with Dr Anna Maria Rollin. In this episode they talk about Motivation and Innovation
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    26 mins
  • Is War Good for Medicine? Challenging the Protocol

    Is War Good for Medicine? Challenging the Protocol
    Aug 23 2024
    This podcast is part of a mini series of 3, looking at how military medicine has transferred to civilian practice and vice-versa. Each part has been recorded as a stand alone episode so you can listen to them in any order you like. Join the outgoing Surgeon General, Major General Tim Hodgetts, Professor and Retired Colonel, Peter Mahoney and Retired Colonel 'Jag' Jagdish as they reflect on their experiences with Dr Anna Maria Rollin. In this episode they talk about Challenging the Protocol
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    22 mins
  • Is War Good for Medicine? The Process and the Process Zoo

    Is War Good for Medicine? The Process and the Process Zoo
    Aug 23 2024
    This podcast is part of a mini series of 3, looking at how military medicine has transferred to civilian practice and vice-versa. Each part has been recorded as a stand alone episode so you can listen to them in any order you like. Join the outgoing Surgeon General, Major General Tim Hodgetts, Professor and Retired Colonel, Peter Mahoney and Retired Colonel 'Jag' Jagdish as they reflect on their experiences with Dr Anna Maria Rollin. In this episode they talk about The Process and the Process Zoo.
    We value your feedback. If you do have any comments on this podcast please let us know by emailing us at archives@rcoa.ac.uk or via our twitter account
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    28 mins
  • Guided relaxation to prepare you for the FRCA examination: Moving into stillness

    Guided relaxation to prepare you for the FRCA examination: Moving into stillness
    Aug 2 2024
    This recording accompanies an Anaesthesia on Air discussion about preparing for the FRCA examination. Download and save this guided session for whenever you need a moment to relax, reflect, and regroup, whether you're preparing for an exam, or anything else.

    Dr Jim Brunning, breathwork instructor and FRCA Final examiner, leads this guided relaxation. Music accompaniment provided by Somabreath.
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    35 mins
  • Relaxation and preparation for the FRCA exam

    Relaxation and preparation for the FRCA exam
    Aug 2 2024
    Dr Emma Plunkett speaks to Dr Jim Brunning and Dr Joe Pick about wellbeing in the context of preparing for and sitting the FRCA examination. Drawing on their own experiences Jim, Joe and Emma discuss the importance of relaxation, sleep, time-management, and more. They explore methods exam candidates can apply in their own preparations, anxiety and imposter syndrome, and how to take a healthy perspective.

    Many of the tools they discuss apply to general wellbeing and work/life pressures, not just for exam candidates.

    This discussion is accompanied by a guided relaxation audio resource, also available in your Anaesthesia on Air podcast feed, or to download at the link below. The relaxation recording, led by Jim Brunning, can be saved and used in any relevant situation.

    Download the guided relaxation

    Related information:
    • RCoA guidance: Support for the FRCA examinations
    • RCoA information: Workplace wellbeing
    • AAGBI information: Wellbeing and support
    • YouTube: Breathe With Sandy - YouTube
    • YouTube: Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
    • YouTube: Powers of Ten
    • Podcast: The Happiness Lab, with Laurie Santos
    • Blog post: Bonnie Ware, Regrets of the Dying
    • Book: Sleep, by Nick Littlehales
    • App: SOMA Breath
    • App: Oxygen advantage
    [Recorded July 2024]
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    43 mins
  • GLP-1 receptor agonists - Anaesthesia 2024 podcast

    GLP-1 receptor agonists - Anaesthesia 2024 podcast
    Jul 30 2024
    In the last of our Anaesthesia 2024 annual conference podcasts, Dr Ramai Santhirapala talks to Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly following his talk on GLP-1 receptor agonists in May 2024 at Glasgow Caledonian University.

    Kariem and Ramai discuss how GLP-1 receptor agonists affect gastric emptying and the subsequent risk of pulmonary aspiration, what anaesthetists can do about that, and what guidance we can look forward to around this area.

    They also discuss the work and achievements that led to Kariem being awarded the Dudley Buxton prize for ‘meritorious work in anaesthesia or in a science contributing to the progress of anaesthesia,' including how he got involved in research, with his advice for budding future researchers.

    Additional information:

    • GLP-1 agonists
    • Anaesthesia research (RCoA)
    • RCoA awards
    [Recorded May 2024]
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    19 mins
  • Communicating risk - Anaesthesia 2024 podcast

    Communicating risk - Anaesthesia 2024 podcast
    Jul 18 2024
    In this fascinating conversation Dr Sam Black talks to Maricarmen Climent and Jayne Hidderley about risk and how it is communicated in clinical settings.

    This podcast, the fourth of a series recorded at the RCoA's 2024 Annual Conference in Glasgow, follows a keynote talk given by Maricarmen and Leila Finikarides and expands on the themes they discussed, in the context of the Montgomery judgment and associated GMC guidance, amongst other things.

    We hear how risk is as much a feeling as a statistical fact, and that to make discussions of risk useful we should try to use 'natural' or meaningful frequencies, describe the absolute risk of something happening and - above all - ask patients about their own attitudes to risk. What matters to them about their forthcoming procedure and how they can best understand the implications.

    [Recorded May 2024] This recording was made at the time of the culmination of the UK infected blood enquiry.

    Additional information
    • Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication
    • Sense About Science | Risk know how
    • GMC | Montgomery judgment
    • RCoA Patient information resources | Anaesthesia and risk
    • RCoA Patient Voices
    • Science Media Centre Spain | Communicating risk resources for journalists
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    25 mins