Podcast #13 – Career Resilience and Leadership Presence

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.)