Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Nazik Hammad, MD, FRCPC about her own journey from Sudan to Canada as an International Medical Graduate (IMG) including the joys, barriers and resilience needed when learning and practicing in a new country. Dr. Hammad also speaks of her work in health equity as well as equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging from the point of view of medical education and systems design. Royal College members: you can earn MOC Section 2 - Individual Learning credits for watching this video.

Dr. Nazik Hammad is a Professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at St. Michael’s Hospital and is a member of the Division of Medical Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She also serves as co-chair of the Black Physicians Association of Ontario’s Network for Advancing Medical Learners (N-ABL). Dr. Hammad has an interest in medical education, in particular health professions education in low and middle-income countries. She is a visiting professor at the University of Nairobi, Kenya and teaches at the Clinical Oncology Training Program in Khartoum, Sudan.

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Jamiu Busari, MD, FRCSC (Hon) about his career path in medicine and his passion for the science of teaching in medical education. They also discuss Dr. Busari’s approach and work in the equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) space.

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Dr. Jamiu Busari is a pediatrician and dean at Horacio Oduber Hospital in Aruba. He is widely recognized for unwavering leadership in health care and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). He is a founding investigator with the Equity in Health System (EqHS) Lab, a transdisciplinary team working to address racism, discrimination, and social injustice in the health system; and a founding member and director of the lab’s international series, Critical Dialogues for Action (CDFA), a monthly dialogue on EDI that focuses on identifying practical steps to bring about meaningful change. In September 2023, Dr. Busari became an Honorary Fellow in the Division of Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Garry Willard, MD, FRCPC about the extraordinary experience of practicing medicine in a war zone during the Vietnam War and how it forever shaped his world view and identity as a clinician. They also discuss Dr. Willard’s recollections as a battlefield surgeon and the similarities of the COVID pandemic on healthcare professions to battles of the past.

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Trained as a general surgeon, Dr. Garry Willard also practiced vascular and trauma surgery during his career. He holds a Royal College Fellowship from Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the International College of Surgeons (FICS). Among other professional associations, he is a Life Member of the Ontario Medical Association and the New York Academy of Science. He was a Founding Member of the American Trauma Society.

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Cornelia (Nel) Wieman, MSc, MD, about the importance of changing the physician mindset to accept that when you are sick, you “can’t fix it yourself”, and you can seek help to begin the journey of healing. They also discussed the structural barriers facing physicians when reentering practice after treatment for their illness.

Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Wieman.

Dr. Nel Wieman is a Psychiatrist and the Acting Chief Medical Officer at First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), the first and only provincial First Nations health authority in Canada. The FNHA works with British Columbia First Nations, government partners and others to improve health outcomes for BC First Nations people.

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC, as she speaks with two physicians about their shared journey of organ donation: one as a living donor and the other as the recipient. Listen to their story about when the healer became the patient and the deliberations of a colleague who decided to donate the life-saving organ.

Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Faughnan and Dr. Stewart.

Dr. Marie Faughnan is a Respirologist and Associate Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

Dr. Robert Stewart is a Urologist and a kidney transplant surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Faughnan and Dr. Stewart are Associate Professors at the University of Toronto.

Host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC and guest Mamta Gautam, MD, FRCPC reflect upon the insights shared by the four Fellows featured in the four-episode special series, Finding a way back to balance: Wisdom from physician artists. Together Jillian and Mamta explore common themes such as the challenges facing women in medicine, the contribution of the arts and humanities to patient care, as well as the importance of nurturing art for personal and professional wellbeing.

Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for listening to this podcast. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Gautam. 

Dr. Mamta Gautam is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consultant, certified coach, author and speaker. A pioneer in physician health and well-being since 1990, she is known as the “The Doctor’s Doctor”. Dr. Gautam is President and CEO of PEAK MD, a company that focuses on enhancing Leadership Development and Leadership Resilience.