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Host Cara King, DO, MS, gynecologic surgeon from the Cleveland Clinic, focuses on surgical and medical education, featuring interviews providing expert pearls, patient perspective, and practice-changing discussion. This serial podcast is created in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons. The information is provided for informational and educational purposes only.
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
On March 27, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Jonathan Dort, MD (@JonathanDort1), Vice Chairman for Education in the Department of Surgery; Program Director, General Surgery Residency; and Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery at Inova Medical Group, Falls Church, Virginia
They discuss:
- SAGES’ COVID-19 resources
- Assumptions being made about viral transmission during laparoscopic surgery
- Should surgical patients be tested pre-surgery for COVID-19?
- PPE for the surgical and anesthesia team in the operating room
- Reducing operating teams to required personnel
- Optimizing filtration systems
- Which surgical cases are nonessential
- Use of masks in the OR
- COVIDsurg: Conoravirus global collaboration on surgical experience with COVID-19
- Safety for residents and INOVA’s educational shift
- A new way of conducting grand rounds
- Working out virtual visit kinks for attendings and residents
- GME start date of July 1: Should it be pushed?
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Resources
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This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @JonathanDort1 @MeganEvansMD
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
On March 27, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Beri Ridgeway, MD, (@beridgeway) Institute Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Cleveland Clinic.
They discuss:
- Ohio’s state of affairs regarding COVID-19
- Testing sites and tests completed to date
- Who can be tested for COVID-19, based on allocation of resources and underlying conditions
- The virtual approach to testing using telephones, FaceTime, and Google Duo
- Insurance coverage of virtual visits and charity care
- In-patient and out-patient visitation policy and hospital entrance checkpoints
- Wearing masks: current evidence-based approach
- COVID-19 modeling for Cleveland Clinic: contingency plans for worst-case scenarios
- Reducing nonessential operations
- COVID-19 preparations with many unknowns
- Elective surgeries: the slowdown of operations
- Supertracking GYN and early OB patients in a COVID-19 hot zone
- Redeployment strategy for now low-volume providers, including ObGyns
- Supporting staff emotionally
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This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @beridgeway
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
Dr. Javier Magrina joins host Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) live at the 2019 annual AAGL conference. Other experts join in the discussion, including Pouran Malekzadeh, MD; Laura Cano, MD; Rashad Pasic, MD; and Luis Gonzalez, MD.
They discuss:
- Dr. Magrina’s path to pelvic surgery
- The creation of ObGyn as a specialty 130 years ago
- Limitations of low-volume surgeries
- General ObGyn residency programs vs tracking residency programs
- What the United States can learn from other countries
- When to incorporate experts from other specialties into pelvic surgery
- Video review of surgery, and it role in evaluating surgical skill
- Subspecializing in surgery
- Assessing residents for surgical expertise
- What makes a good mentor?
- Dr. Magrina’s most influential mentors
- What can a mentee do to enhance the relationship with a mentor?
- Dr. Magrina’s advice to the graduating resident
- Views from podcast listeners on, “Should the OB be separated from the GYN?”
This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts surgical researcher and educator Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, and Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research.
They discuss:
- Intraoperative surgical performance and the attending surgeon’s role in outcomes
- Applying engineering factors to surgical performance
- Surgical coaching: Proof of concept
- Differences in surgical mentors, teachers, and coaches
- Attributes of good surgical coaches
- Identifying surgeons who will be good coaches
- Creating a culture change to allow coaches in surgery
- Matching coachees with coaches
- The Academy for Surgical Coaching and its goals
- Video-based platforms for interactive surgical coaching
- Video-based surgical assessment
- The Academy for Surgical Coaching’s summer 2020 summit
Resources
This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @MeganEvansMD
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts women’s health advocacy expert Megan Evans, MD, MPH (@MeganEvansMD). Dr. Evans is Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Associate Program Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center.
They discuss:
- How GME is funded
- Growth in resident training
- GME caps for hospitals
- CMS’s GME programs
- Projected physician shortage
- Increased enrollment in medical schools
- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019
- Opioid Workforce Act of 2019
This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @MeganEvansMD
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
On June 29, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Beri Ridgeway, MD (@beridgeway), Associate Chief of Staff, Cleveland Clinic. They discuss:
- Reactivating services at the Cleveland Clinic
- Decision making for re-opening
- Space studies and design
- COVID testing for surgery
- Capacity for COVID testing
- Ongoing plans if COVID rate increases
- Better understanding virtual care being provided
- Reimbursement for telehealth visits
- Cleveland Clinic’s surgical reactivation workflow
- Antibody testing for COVID at Cleveland Clinic
This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @beridgeway
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Cara King speaks with LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and the school’s first Black woman student council president. Lash talks about the systemic racism she has seen during her medical education and what motivated her to address it through writing with her first article, “How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull’s-eye.” She also shares what advice she would give to young Black students interested in medicine as well as her thoughts on how healthcare professionals can use their position to help change these deep rooted issues within the institution.
Resources:
- "How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull’s-eye" by LaShyra Nolen
- ACCEM
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- LaShyra Nolen’s website
- LaShyra Nolen on Twitter
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Cara King speaks with Dr. Linda Bradley, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bradley is the first female African American surgeon to join the staff over 25 years ago and is the Medical Director of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL). She talks with Dr. King about her upbringing in Cleveland and how she integrates her family into her work life. She also talks about her passion for cooking. Listen as she shares how to encourage more Black men and women to enter the medical profession and how to make the most out of a mentorship.
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Cara King speaks with Dr. Mathew Leonardi, an advanced gynecologic surgeon and sonologist (ultrasound specialist) at McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, Canada. As March is Endometriosis awareness month, Mathew talks about advanced endometriosis imagery and how it impacts preoperative counseling, planning and intraoperative surgical intervention. He also talks about how he created his own path to get to where he is today. Listen as he shares how to build skills in advance sonography and incorporate this into residency as well as fellowship education.
Resources:
- Dr. Mathew Leonardi’s website
- Dr. Mathew Leonardi on Youtube
- “How to perform an ultrasound to diagnose endometriosis” by Dr. Mathew Leonardi
- IDEA (International Deep Endometriosis Analysis group)
- MUSA (Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment)
- International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA)
- Closing the communication loop between gynecological surgeons, diagnostic imaging experts and pathologists in endometriosis: building bridges between specialties by Dr. Mathew Leonardi, Dr. Mercedes Espada and Dr. George Condous
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
In the first episode of a two-part series, Dr. Cara King speaks with Dr. Cecile Ferrando, director of the transgender surgery and medicine program at The Cleveland Clinic, following International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31. Cecile talks about her journey into reconstructive transgender surgery and how she prepared for her first few cases post-fellowship. She also discusses the importance of transparency with her patients.
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