Episode 37: Being a Clinical Director - and what you need to do before and during Comm Serve - with Dr Jay Punwasi

In this week's Coffee with Consultants feature, I sat down with Dr Jay Punwasi, about the role of a clinical manager at a hospital entails, and also to talk about the important steps junior doctors need to chart a course for the the early phase of their career and how to choose a site for their Community Service year. Dr Jay Punwasi is a medical doctor and healthcare manager. She is currently the Clinical Director at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. Her purpose in her career is to advance patient services by engaging her clinical and MBA training and experience in all aspects of healthcare.  As a trained business and life coach, Dr Puwnasi has a special interest in developing young healthcare practitioners through coaching and mentoring so the next generation of doctors and allied practitioners is better equipped to run the marathon of a career in healthcare. Dr Punwasi has won multiple service excellence awards in her career including the South African Medical Association Young Leader in Healthcare award. She is a mother of two girls aged 12 and 9, the wife of a university professor and a community activist involved in organisations that promote education and learning, reading amongst young children, and social and community improvement. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and I’m sure you will as well. Important resources and links mentioned in this episode: Colleges of Medicine South Africa - ⁠https://www.cmsa.co.za/⁠ Stay on top of CPD points and courses - Medical practice consulting - ⁠https://www.mpconsulting.co.za/⁠ EMGuidance - Free, instant access to locally relevant medicines & clinical information ⁠https://emguidance.com/about⁠⁠ Ikigai - the Japanese secret to a long and happy life, (Book) by Héctor Garcia & Francesc Miralles Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, (Book) by Dr Eric Topol, MD. Outlive: the Science of Longevity, (Book) By Dr Peter Attia. Our Linktree URL: https://linktr.ee/drcoffeeza Well, that’s it for this week’s episode. I’d like to take a moment to direct you briefly to our Linktree URL (above), and our instagram page, @DrCoffeeZA. There you’ll find links to all our podcast episodes, some of the collaborators we’ve been working with, as well as a Google Form you can complete if you’re interested in working with the Dr Coffee Podcast. Whether it be collaborating on an event at your medical school with a student society or interest-group, featuring guests in episodes or special segments, or if you’d like to advertise on the podcast with pre-roll, mid-roll or post-roll ads. If you believe, like we do, in the potential and talent of south africa’s junior doctors and future doctors, and would like to work together to make a positive difference, hit us up via the Google Form and we’ll be in touch soon. You can also email us on the podcast’s email address, at [email protected]