Join us for this month’s episode where Rhiannon Richards sits down with Felicity Meyer, Helen Skinner and Jade Whing to explore the challenges and experiences faced by pregnant surgical trainees and how supervisors can play a major role in supporting trainees who are navigating their surgical trainingwhilst pregnant.
Host: Rhiannon Richards
Rhiannon Richards is a Yorkshire General Surgical trainee, aformer Leadership Fellow for Supported Return to Training and mother to two children. Her leadership work has focused on pregnancy in surgery, improving the process of returning to surgical training after time out and nationalresearch into complex phased returns.
Guest: Felicity Meyer
Felicity Meyer is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon based inNorfolk and Chair of Women in Surgery (WinS) Chair at RCS England.
Guest: Helen Skinner
Helen is an ST4 General Surgery trainee working in theYorkshire & Humber deanery. She was elected to the ASiT Council as Yorkshire and Humber regional Representative in 2021 and joined the Executive Committee in March 2023 as Webmaster & Bursary Liaison. She has an interestin training and education, sustainability and increasing diversity in the surgical workforce.
Guest: Jade Whing
Jade Whing is a perpetual ST6 Vascular Surgery Registrarworking in the East of England. She has a keen interest in necrotic legs, trauma, and global surgery, having previously worked in South Africa. Currently on maternity leave, she solo-parents a dinosaur-obsessed two-year-old and a10-week-old baby — all while her partner has spent the past year living away, completing a trauma surgery fellowship and sitting exams. She is exhausted.
Resources
Theimpact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers
Delivering Ambitious Change for Parents in Surgery
Produced by: Andrea Pearson
We would love to hear from you so please do reach out to uson social media, or email us at podcasts@rcseng.ac.uk