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Job Applications – The interview

You’ve submitted the application and now you’ve been offered an interview! How do you make a good impression and provide the best answers to those questions to get that job? In this second episode on job applications, we talk to Sharon Downie, Director of Medical Workforce at RCH and discuss everything about the interview, including what to wear, what to say and how to say it!  

Patient centred care Part 2 - Involving patients and parents in care

In this second part of our series on patient centred care, we explore some tips of how to approach discussions with patients and parents. Amanda Stock from RCH Emergency and Marnie Pascoe from RCH Comfort Kids discuss recognising the signs of the concerned parent and how to approach each patient encounter.  

Patient centred care Part 1 – Kindness

A patient centred care environment in the workplace begins with how we care for each other as a team. In the first of the series on patient centred care, we hear from the founder of the Hush Foundation, Dr Cathy Crock, who discusses her journey through establishing a patient centred care environment and how we can be kind to one another to improve the interactions with our patients. 
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www.gatheringofkindness.org  

Clinical Supervision Part 2

In part 2 of this series on Clinical Supervision, we speak with Danni Tassoni and Michaela Comito from the RCH Dietetics Department. They take us through how they used the Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework to implement a very successful departmental clinical supervision program.   

Research for beginners

Where do you start when you want to do research? Why bother going through the whole process? In this episode, we speak with PhD candidates Sarah, Yasemin and Douglas, who share their own experiences. We'll discuss concepts involving "research before research", networking and co-design. Their insights and advice on how to make the most out of your own research journey will appeal to many.

Job Applications – The CV and Cover Letter

The competition for jobs is high and you desperately want that interview. How do you make that CV and cover letter stand out amongst the crowd? Abbey Gordon from the RCH Medical Workforce Unit & Claudia Barriga from Nursing Education give us some tips to ensure your cover letter and CV catch the eye of the employer.

Clinical Supervision - PART 1

The Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision framework outlines the principles that underpin high quality clinical supervision and what clinicians, teams and organisations can do to support this. We talk with Marcus Gardner who describes that aspects of clinical supervision and how the framework can help clinicians and organisations implement and improve their own clinical supervision programs.

The void: COVID-19 restrictions and junior doctor education opportunities

Today we're speaking with Dr Jye Gard. Jye is the Lead Paediatric Clinical Teaching Fellow and Education Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne and a consultant paediatrician. He has recently published a paper looking at how medical education has changed as a result of the pandemic and how it has impacted the self-perception of junior doctors’ education and training needs.

Feedback - Structuring feedback

Feedback is a very important part of our work. Most of us want to receive it, but most of us don’t want to give it. In this episode, we chat with Elisha Matthews from Allied Health and Dr Peter Howe from Anaesthetics who discuss some feedback structures and how you can do away with the “feedback sandwich”.

The University of Melbourne’s Paediatric Academy

The Paediatric Academy is a new and exciting University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics initiative. This is a digital platform, much like LinkedIn, that will allow paediatric clinicians and educators to network with other healthcare professionals all over the world. We talk with those behind the scenes, Phoebe Malone and Lichin Lim, who tell us about it and how you can get involved.