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IVMC Spring Conference 2022: Dr Michael Okocha speaking on 'Changing the face of surgery'

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This on-demand teaching session is an opportunity for medical professionals to gain important insight from an experienced healthcare leader and a keynote speaker from the Association for Surgeons in Training. In addition to discussing the disparities among medical professionals and the importance of creating an inclusive environment, the workshop features the largest ever group of people sharing posters and hundreds of speakers. The session will also help attendees make their technology accessible and open up access to free webinars, conferences and events. It's an excellent opportunity to learn about the systemic changes needed for healthcare, how to make a real difference, and find support from a collective of healthcare professionals.

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Learning objectives

Learning Objectives:

  1. Recognize the impact of language and mood on patient care and team dynamics.
  2. Identify unspoken obstacles to healthcare advancement in terms of discrimination, sexism, racism, and homophobia.
  3. Understand how to create an inclusive healthcare environment, from recognizing the value of diverse perspectives to creating a sense of belonging among colleagues.
  4. Identify strategies to create equal opportunities in healthcare professions and to reduce mental load burdens of Healthcare Professionals.
  5. Become familiar with Doctor Chris Turner’s “Compassion Saves Lives” campaign and its various ideas to create kindness, belonging, and trust in the workplace.
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way, way. Welcome back after lunch, I hope you had a nice lunch break. I hope that you really enjoyed this morning sessions. We've had incredible speakers from the World Health Organization from the BBC from nearly who's leading are Compean in the UK for 24 are hopeful for NHS staff. We have had incredible workshops. We've had the largest ever group off people having the opportunity to share there posters on or really present them to a group that we've ever had. We've literally got hundreds of people speaking today and I just love that interaction and the ability to the barber ties Access on its are really honored to kind of do that along side you. Sorry about the thing. Before the break, we had a little mix up in our computers here, but at the the the message that we wanted to get across was that we're ready to make our technology accessible. Teo, your organization on. But if you do want to get access to that, then you can go to metal door slice really access. We're happy to share our took our technology for conferences for webinars, for events with you open access free of charge on a service to the medical community I'm gonna hand over to our next keynote speaker. Right now. He is the equality and diversity officer at the Association for Surgeons in Training. He is also the morning academy vice president for at the Association for Surgeons in Great Britain on Ireland. On he is the course lead for the asset EDI course. He's also being living in Campion, called 50 faces in surgery on It's like changing the fierce off surgery on this work is genuinely career changing for him, for so many other people, for all of us. And I want you to give him and the amazing working he's doing your full support, if you can. After today's conference, I gotta hand straight over to Michael on. I really hope that you enjoy his session. I'm Michel a culture. I'm a general surgeon trainee. I'm the vice president of the HPV. I'm a high and academy on the Association of Surgeons in Training, Equality and Diversity. Officer, The first one I am so excited about this humans and Healthcare Day. And I'm, uh, annoyed with Phil on the metal team for making me follow doctor manual on nearly. I mean, what incredible talks and this whole day is just incredible. And I thankful for the opportunity. And I really, really hope you the audience watching this enjoy today I want to talk to you about 50 cases of surgery. I have poured my heart and soul into trying to find a way to showcase the diversity on wonderful people who work have been surgery in the in the UK and abroad. Whenever I start a project, I always think about Simon Synnex. Why? How walk? Um, I truly believe in order to make something successful. You really, really, really need to know why the how you doing that on? I cannot tell you the number or audits and Q. I still don't really understand what I'm doing, but we're best. I was clear. I knew that diversity is not just the buzz word. Diverse city increase itty equality. These are just worse. These people's lived experiences. This is my lift experience. I have a place that I considered home away from home in the hospital, and I had been there for a while on I remember Come in, come into a hemorrhage. Cool as the regimen cool When I turned up on essentially one of the nurses who I seen before you had seen me before turn around and said why? I have, you know, bought the blood. Now I was wearing scrubs up my scrubs, a lanyard that said general surgery on it. And I turned her and I said, I'm one of the surgeons and she went, Oh, sorry. I thought you wonder people who was gonna bring the blood a few things on that does. The language that she used was an increase it welcoming. It was challenging bills roll assumption in a place where I worked for a long time. But to get, uh I want to talk about how it made me feel, made me feel unseen. It made me feel small and insignificant not because of the row, but because a row was assumed upon me as already a difficult situation. There was a patient. He was sick. You needed help. Mentally, I wasn't engaged because I had to deal with that challenge for us on. You know, I sat back and I speak to some colleagues and female trainees. You know who have it constantly female nurses, you face aggression from over patients. People from LGBT backgrounds who face home a favorite comments as day in day out. Racism, sexism, discrimination, billion harassment, Undermining behaviors at the end of it all thing that blows my mind that I just can't understand is someone trained toe help patients. At the end of this oh, whole goal of health care is to help patients. So someone decided to go down a route to help patients where you're busier. A nurse, the diet trist, the doctor, a surgeon. So you decided that you insecure Ince's read to help patients that someone reaches a point on beta side. But they want to impose harshness and coldness and business on another group of people on gas. Why? Discrimination just has no place in healthcare because at the end of the day, I didn't go into surgery. Toe face racism. I went into surgery, help patients. Racism has no part in that pathway. Sexism has no part in that pathway. Everyone bases challenges that people don't realize. It was a fluke that there were like flyers that were spread around and about particle Muslim day. I think that was the first time that I encountered Islamophobia. Um, and just feeling that my presence was not wanted by some people on defeating that because at that at that time during that place, I mean, I was like, that will leave Muslim in in my group. Um, and obviously, because it was like a placement outside off like you need. So it was quite far away from my support system. I didn't really have anyone. I'm familiar to it to turn to, um so I think a root of peace and a TBI life about visibility. I'd There are people facing challenges that we can't even imagine they're facing. But they challenges you probably face every day that people understood what you went for to get to work. Low mood for financial stresses. A burden at the healthcare service person, your body, your mind, your time. If family commitments people fully recognizable of these things I fit cough could be a really different place. But instead, we've been tool to recognize health cast as a system no agree with people on. I hope if the face of surgery will change, I like to share a few extracts and talk about why these are important. The first one is about the challenge of sexism, things and sorry. This is too much information for you, Michael. Bit on my very painful periods. And so when you have cramps and you're standing and you're in the fourth hour of a Whipple and you need to go to the loo And now how do you say to this all male team that I need to spread out and you're sort of standing there thinking of God? He's like, no accidents And you know, So it's it's weird things like that. And then you would say, You know, please, you know, kind of scrub out and that sort of the old the eyes would be on you. Like what? Why? Hands like I just need to go to the bathroom. So the usual sort of being undermined or being after now we have a name for it, man explaining. But you know that that's not new, just because some of these kind of trendy phrase for it. So all those little things. But surprisingly enough, I think I never really thought when I was a kid, maybe I thought that being I didn't really think anything would sort of stopped me doing what I wanted. We would just brought up to what? Do whatever we wanted to go on. We were good at. But with hindsight, you realize that actually, not being a man has probably been the thing that has probably not got me to who knows where I might have been today? Uh, glistened shudder to Thanks. Well, I learnt from this Was that the language we used with each other alters outcomes, alters thie individuals moment right there on then impacts on how they communicate and work with that team Impacts on that patients car. How can you give ah 100% when you've already spent energy on dealing with the challenge of discrimination? Mental load that discrimination puts on the individual. Chris Turner says it best. Doctor Chris Turner. He came with this incredible comparing possibility. Saves lives. I generally recommend every single person who works in a healthcare system just to watch her spend five minutes on the website. In this campaign, he talks about how your language, how you mood, how way you work with the team impacts on that whole team. I'm really what it boils down to is brain processing power. How much processing power do you have in one day and how much of that is taken up by the challenges? But the healthcare system places on the about people who discriminate You make racist comments to make sexist comments. Macoma for bit comments. First people. How much mind power does it take a break through that? I, uh I was diagnosed a testicular cancer, and my wife and I had a kid at that time. So navigating that fortunately as well as, um, a Z lot of people know you have testicular cancer is definitely treatable if you catch it early. And so and I did. So I I caught it, got treated, was able to graduate med school on time, went on to residency, and then my beginning of my last year residency. I had testicular cancer, and my other testicle is I'm really good at finding testicular cancer. Really good at it. So some of you may have recognized up the glaucoma on he's incredible Man had out of hospital cardiac arrest in here. He still is making a sore, laughin appreciate cover. More and things I've learned from this is that you truly do not know the struggles are people face. But I also know that long in isn't course a sense of belonging was mentioned in the Baroness Kennedy report for the RCs. Why? Because it's the most important thing. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You are what level you are, whether your diet tress and nurses physiotherapists, a healthcare assistant, But porters, the domestic team doctors, it doesn't matter who you are. But if you're not claimed by your team. But it doesn't matter how many at hot connections you have, you'll never find your place at work. And I like to share this extract about finding your tribe on. Also, I did have mentors on I think this is, if you can get to the mental is and then that is, that really will help your journey on having a a support network, people that you can share your vulnerabilities and your your your your concerns with on who you know that they will give you an honest opinion. So spoken about the why. Now I like to talk about what what we created. A video series were 30,000 views on YouTube on that video. Siris not only highlights the diversity, we've been surgery, but it'll sir brought a lot of organizations into the line by and we created this video Siris toe demonstrate that surgery can be increased. People face challenges that we don't see to shine visible to improve visibility, Most importantly, is sure. But we can work together to make an impact. How How does it make impact when you see someone looks like you who has succeeded inspires you when you hear someone. He was going through the same challenges. I see you. They made it through it motivates you. And when you fill the same emotions well, you recognize someone felt the same emotions not longer difficulties get into a work in the morning. The stress of financial pressures, stress of life and still making it work in the warning When you have, you know you're not learn. I came up with this tagline, uh, for the EDI work. We do ask sentence. Here I am. And I truly believe I want to create a work environment where everyone can come in in the morning on be honest about the challenges, the face, how they come, these it's working environment where discrimination just not tolerated earlier sexual harassment just not tolerated where everyone concise a Here I am. Onda feel welcome. Thank you so much for for having me. I hope I haven't rambled on. And I hope you gained some insights. Uh, into the process of 50 face is why I think it's such a important piece of work here. I am long in visibility. 50 faces surgery. Thank you so much for having me.