RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast

May 01 2024 2
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Hello and welcome to the Safe & Sound podcast by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland which explores the world of human factors in healthcare and patient safety. Each episode, we will try to untangle different aspects of this complicated web of human factors in healthcare, through interviews with some extraordinary guests and faculty in Ireland, and across the world. Follow us on Social Media Twitter https://twitter.com/HumanFactorsPS

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Episode 8 - Hard to stomach: Alan O Gorman tells his story as a patient who experienced a surgical never event - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

May 01 2024 34 mins  
RCSI is pleased to announce that our Safe and Sound podcast season finale “Hard to stomach: Alan O'Gorman tells his story as a patient who experienced a surgical never event” is now available to listen to on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

Episode 7 - Senator David Norris - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Mar 22 2024 21 mins  
Senator David Norris is an Irish scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil rights activist. Born in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, David Norris is a former Trinity College lecturer and member of the Oireachtas. He has served in Seanad Éireann since 1987 and is the first openly gay person to be elected to a public office in Ireland. He is an expert on Jame

Episode 6 - Dr Dara O'Keeffe - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Feb 22 2024 34 mins  
Dara O’Keeffe is the Simulation Lead in Postgraduate Surgical Education and Training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She trained in surgery in Ireland for eight years before entering the field of medical education in 2006. At RCSI she designed and implemented national assessments in technical and non-technical skills, before moving to Boston in 2010. There she held t

Episode 5- Professor Ian Robertson - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Jan 24 2024 25 mins  
Prof Ian Robertson is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin (1999–2016) and was the founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, as well as Dean of Research of Trinity College, from 2004–2007. Ian is Founding Director of GBHI at Trinity. Ian studied and trained at Glasgow University and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London

Episode 4 - Dr Chris Turner - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Dec 18 2023 27 mins  
Dr Chris Turner is consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is interested in governance and highly performing teams, and this has led him on a journey from being blame and process focused to something completely different, Civility Saves Lives, a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the impact of behaviour on performance. Over th

Episode 3 - Professor Steven Yule - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Nov 21 2023 26 mins  
Professor Steven Yule is Chair of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and leader of the Edinburgh Surgical Sabermetrics Group. He is also Programme Director of the MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors within Edinburgh Surgery Online, and Director of Non-Technical Skills at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Professor Yule is an academic psycho

Episode 2 - Mr Martin Bromiley OBE - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Oct 23 2023 44 mins  
Martin Bromiley OBE FRCSEd (ad hom), Founder of the Clinical Human Factors Group, UK Martin Bromiley is “Dad” to his family living in Buckinghamshire. Professionally he is a Training Captain for a major UK airline and has a background specialising in human performance and safety. In 2005 his then wife died as a result of human error during routine surgery. He subsequently found

Episode 1 - Professor Eva Doherty - RCSI Safe & Sound Podcast

Oct 09 2023 36 mins  
Professor Eva Doherty, Director of Human Factors in Patient Safety, DClinPsych, CClinPsychol (AFPsSI), CPsychol (AFBPsS), PFHEA, FEACH. Eva is a practising clinical psychologist, Associate Professor and Director of the Human Factors in Patient Safety (HFPS) training, research and assessment programme at the National Surgical Training Centre, Department of Surgical Affairs, RCSI Uni