The Sett

The Value of Child Trauma Centers

Episode 59: Dr, Mark Slidell

Mark Slidell, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. He specializes in pediatric surgery and is the Director of Pediatric Trauma at Comer’s Children Hospital.

Cars Curing Kids and Other Charitable Work

Episode 58: Dr. Peter Nichol

Peter Nichol, MD, discusses his commitment to rural healthcare on this week’s episode of the Surgery Sett. Dr. Kohler and Dr. Nichol also discuss Dr. Nichol’s work with Cars Curing Kids foundation and other charitable work to improve health for children in Wisconsin.

Here are links to organizations discussed in this podcast:

https://carscuringkids.net/

https://www.rmhcmadison.org/

The Possibilities of 3D Printing in Surgical Education

Episode 57: Dr. Joshua Hermsen

Joshua Hermsen, MD, from UW’s Department of Surgery, who specializes in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Hermsen has some very innovative research interests. He and Dr. Kohler discuss the use of medical 3D printing in surgical training.

To hear Dr. Hermsen’s Grand Rounds Talk, click here.

 

The Benefits of Fellowships for Residents

Episode 56: Dr. B. Timothy Baxter

B. Timothy Baxter, MD, is a professor of Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He specializes in Vascular Surgery and plays a big role at Nebraska’s Vascular Fellowship program.

Dr. Baxter and Dr. Kohler discuss the importance of a fellowship during a residency. It’s a time to think and plan one’s profession and on opportunity for personal growth, they say. The benefits go beyond the lab.

Here's a link to Dr. Baxter's Grand Rounds Talk at UW.

Gender Equality In Surgery

Episode 55: Dr. Caprice Greenberg and Dr. Jake Greenberg

Caprice Greenberg, MD, and Jake Greenberg, MD, both teach here at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and have made gender equality within the surgical community a focus of their work. Drs. Kohler, Greenberg and Greenberg have an insightful discussion about everything from pay gaps to parental leave. They also mention a number of resources for those interested in inclusion within surgery. Those are listed below.

 

The Association of Women Surgeons

https://www.womensurgeons.org/

Twitter feed: @WomenSurgeons

(Great Twitter feed, too, says Dr. Greenberg)

 

Twitter: Hashtags #HeForShe

 

Book: Why So Slow: The Advancement of Womenby Virginia Valian

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-so-slow

 

White Paper:

“Ensuring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Surgery: An American Surgical Association White Paper”

 

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Fulltext/2018/09000/Ensuring_Equity,_Diversity,_and_Inclusion_in.3.aspx

 

Dr. Caprice Greenberg’s talk at the Association for Academic Surgery in 2016: “Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings.”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHo1x2sk0gw

A Culture of Wellness

Episode 54: Dr. Catherine Cheng

Catherine Cheng, MD, is a national speaker on physician health and well-being. Her medical interests are stress management, social and emotional aspects of health, and health education. She is a clinical instructor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Kohler spoke with Dr. Cheng after she gave her Grand Rounds Talk, “We Are the System: From Personal Resilience to A Culture of Wellness.”

https://videos.med.wisc.edu/videos/84678

Here are links to books mentioned in the podcast:

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

https://righteousmind.com/

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

https://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533557

How Humanites Make Better Surgeons

Episode 53: Dr. Seymour Schwartz

Seymour Schwartz, MD, is a ninety-year-old pioneer in medicine and the longtime editor of the world’s leading surgery textbook, Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery. 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication. In his “post-op” life, as he calls it, Dr. Schwartz has become a cartographer and has delved deeply into the Humanities.

The Education of Surgeons

Episode 52: Dr. Gurjit Sandhu

How do we know residents are ready to be surgeons? Dr. Gurjit Sandhu of the University of Michigan joins Dr. Kohler to discuss the new assessment tools being developed in medical education. Entrustable Professional Activities are the future of surgical education, and the UW's Department of Surgery is part of a pilot project sponsored by the American Board of Surgery to study how medical schools assess the abilities of graduating residents.

New Treatments in Melanoma

Episode 51: Dr. Carol Bradford

Dr. Carol Bradford of the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has discovered new ways to help patients with melanoma without doing too much or too little. Find out more about Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy on this week’s episode of The Surgery Sett. To hear Dr. Bradford’s Grand Rounds Talk, “Contemporary Management of Melanoma of the Head and Neck,” click here.

Surgery: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Episode 50: Dr. Gerard Doherty

Dr. Doherty was in Madison to deliver a Grands Rounds Talk about the history of surgery, and more importantly, where it’s going. How do surgeons organize their professional lives? What could the surgeon’s office of the future look like? How do surgeons sustain their careers and maintain a level of satisfaction? To hear Dr. Doherty's Grand Round Talk, click here.