A Chat with cardiology trainees Neasa Starr and Billy Gibson. Neasa Starr is in her final year of training at the Mater University Hospital Dublin, Ireland and Billy Gibson is a second year trainee at St James’s teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
A preview for the IBTCM (Irish Board for Training in Cardiovascular Medicine) webinar on Dec. 15, 2020, Neasa and Billy discuss non-clinical competencies that Irish cardiology trainees can take advantage of, to accelerate their career success. Neasa reveals how shattering a long-held perspective on hierarchy in the work setting allowed her to speak up more, thus reducing the possibility of implicit bias and improving patient safety. Billy helps us all take a step back to understand our work stressors, the amygdala hijack, one’s physiological reaction and how we can practice a more measured response. Both Neasa and Billy credit heightened self-awareness as the key toward increased job satisfaction. (12 mins.)
James McKenna
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