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Growing Pains

by Sarah Barnard

Join us as we talk to fellow students and medical professionals about the challenges we may face navigating our personal and professional lives as future medics. Hosted by Sarah BarnardProduced by Sarah Barnard & Sofiya FateevaWathaurong CountryDeakin University Victoria, Australia

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Episodes

  1. S2E5 Domestic & Family Violence with Karen Prestidge from DV-alert

    It’s only a matter of time that as a medical student or doctor you will be confronted with the impacts of domestic and family violence on our patients and our communities. Whether it be treating a woman for injuries inflicted by her partner during your ED term or being the first person a woman...

  2. S2E3 Rethinking Mental Health with A/Prof Ajeet Singh

    “Muscle burn, not muscle rip” Associate Professor Ajeet Singh MD, PhD is an academic psychiatrist in Geelong who specialises in high functioning breakdowns in people in demanding careers like medicine and law. In this episode, Dr Singh offers a nuanced perspective the tension between stress…

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  3. S2E2 Bearing Witness with Professor Peter Martin

    “Brevity and clarity requires skill and courage” This month we are sitting down with Professor Peter Martin and fellow 4th year medical student Bronte Warner to talk about bearing witness to suffering as we move through our training. Dr Martin is a professor of Communication and End of Life Care…

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  4. S2E1 Giddy up for third year! We're going clinical with Yacoub & Gaby

    Out with labs, lectures and PBLs, and in with ward rounds, free coffees and probably COVID. Transitioning from preclinical into your clinical years is a big jump, and those first few weeks can be painfully overwhelming. But while the transition can be bumpy, you’ll definitely make it through and...

  5. S1E6 The International Med Student Experience with Dr Melissa Ho and Dr Geo Zhou

    This month Sofiya Fateeva, an incoming third year international student sits down with two recent Deakin grads Dr Melissa Ho and Dr Geo Zhou to talk about what life has been like as an international medical student at Deakin: 🎓 Dealing with failure, burnout and homesickness 🌎 Making friends and...

  6. S1E5 Parenting in Medicine Part 2 with Tie and Emma

    This topic was too big and too important to not cover in more than one episode! This month, we sat down with Emma and Tie, two second year medical students at Deakin University to talk about how they manage studying medicine with having a family. We talk about: 👩🏾‍🎓 How being a parent factored...

  7. S1E4 "Is research for me?" with Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO & Professor Jacqueline French MD

    How important is research to our clinical careers? With the Z score likely on its way out, many of us are looking to differentiate ourselves from the pack on intern applications and beyond. But where to start? How do I know research is for me? Better yet, I've somehow managed to swindle a fancy...

  8. S1E3 Finding Your "Why" with Edwina Fry - NOMAD President

    Welcome back to Growing Pains after an unexpected, COVID induced hiatus. Thanks for sticking with us! In this months episode, I sit down with Edwina Fry - NOMAD president to talk confidence, finding your "why" in medicine and taking on leadership roles. We recorded this episode at the end of last...

  9. S1E2 Parenting in Medicine with Leedie and Chris

    In this two part episode on parenting, I sit down with Leedie and Chris, two medical students who are managing their studies while balancing being parents. Leedie is a final year student in Melbourne and a mum of three boys, two of which have additional needs. Chris is a former pharmacist, a…

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  10. S1E1 Are You Ambitious? With Rachel and Jen

    Welcome to the first episode of Growing Pains! This month, we sat down with two MD3 students to talk about the role of ambition in their lives as they undergo their medical training - including: 🏆What does being ambitious mean to us? Where does it go wrong? 🥇Feeling misunderstood for your...

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Join us as we talk to fellow students and medical professionals about the challenges we may face navigating our personal and professional lives as future medics. Hosted by Sarah BarnardProduced by Sarah Barnard & Sofiya FateevaWathaurong CountryDeakin University Victoria, Australia

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Join us as we talk to fellow students and medical professionals about the challenges we may face navigating our personal and professional lives as future medics. Hosted by Sarah BarnardProduced by Sarah Barnard & Sofiya FateevaWathaurong CountryDeakin University Victoria, Australia

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