E81 Rhea Liang and Simon Fleming on Bullying, Psychological Safety, and Culture Change in Surgery

We were joined this week by Drs. Rhea Liang (https://twitter.com/LiangRhea?s=20) and Simon Fleming (https://twitter.com/OrthopodReg?s=20) to talk about bullying, psychological safety, and culture change in surgery. We hope that the episode can be an opportunity for discussion and reflection for listeners.

Links:

1. RCS England Theatre podcast: https://anchor.fm/rcseng/episodes/Culture-Change-Why-do-we-need-culture-change-ekeo1v/a-a3djbs4

2. Simon Fleming: I launched an anti-bullying campaign to change culture in healthcare -https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/04/10/simon-fleming-i-launched-an-anti-bullying-campaign-to-change-culture-in-healthcare/

3. Operate with Respect: https://www.surgeons.org/en/about-racs/about-respect

4. Why do women leave surgical training? A qualitative and feminist study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32612-6/fulltext

5. All of us have a survivorship bias in regard to how we were trained in medicine. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/30/all-of-us-have-a-survivorship-bias-in-regard-to-how-we-were-trained-in-medicine/

Bios: 

Associate Professor Rhea Liang (twitter: @LiangRhea) is a general and breast surgeon on the Gold Coast. She is a surgical educationalist, Surgical Discipline Lead at Bond University and the immediate past Chair of the Operating With Respect Education Committee, RACS. She also researches, advocates and consults widely in diversity and equity issues.

Simon Fleming (twitter: @OrthopodReg) is a London-based Trauma and Orthopaedic registrar. While passionate about Orthopaedics, surgical training & mentoring, he has special interests in hand surgery, competency decisions & combating bullying, undermining, harassment and the lack of diversity and equity in healthcare. He undoes all the good work he does in the gym with a love of great food and tries to change the world in his spare time.