53 | Dr. Laura Sutherland on wellbeing, exam resilience & paediatric emergency medicine

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Dr. Laura Sutherland is a paediatric emergency medicine physician. Her husband is also an emergency medicine physician, and they have three young children. Originally from Scotland, they emigrated to Adelaide in 2010, and have spent the last two years in Auckland. She is passionate about children, wellbeing in medicine, and arts and crafts.
In this episode, we discuss her journey into paediatrics and emergency medicine, how she persisted despite failing her exams three times and what she changed to succeed the fourth time, debriefing after traumatic medical experiences, wellbeing in the workplace and self-care.
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As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at [e-mail].

Audio credit:
Bliss by Luke Bergs https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/e9aXhBQDT9Y

Κεφάλαια

1. Laura Sutherland (00:00:00)

2. Choosing medicine (00:01:23)

3. Finding paediatrics (00:03:15)

4. Paediatric emergency medicine training (00:06:58)

5. Exam failures (00:08:57)

6. Workplace wellbeing (00:17:50)

7. Day-to-day routine of paediatric ED (00:25:49)

8. Debriefing and processing from traumatic experiences in paeds (00:30:12)

9. Being a medical parent (00:34:49)

10. Wellbeing & self-care (00:40:11)