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The Oxford Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society are looking for O&G clinicians to volunteers for our mentorship scheme. This programme provides obstetrics and gynaecology doctors (ST1 - consultant level) the opportunity to provide support and advice to medical students aspiring to pursue this speciality. This programme is expected to last one academic year and will be carried out with a minimum one meeting per term with the chosen mentee. A document with suggested objectives and areas to cover in this mentorship will be provided for both mentors and mentees to ensure the programme is carried out efficiently. Mentors do not have to be based in Oxford and can be based in DGHs in the Thames Valley deanery.
If you are interested in taking part in this programme, please completed the attached form:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7G0IXiLJO0DqXmHwFXY7_gUeBSRrkIgMH-ycUHd1ymXcBlw/viewform.
Please email Abena Boatey (abena.boatey@medschool.ox.ac.uk) with any queries.
Our ability to understand ourselves and others in terms of underlying mental states (feelings, thoughts, beliefs, etc), also known as mentalising, has been associated with better mental health, wellbeing, and reduced risk of burnout. In collaboration with Professor Peter Fonagy at University College London, we are looking at whether mentalising capacity (a facet of psychological mindedness) improves over the course of psychiatric specialty training.
You may reasonably ask what relevance this has to O&G.
Let me explain…
Although psychiatric training places explicit emphasis on reflective practice (thought to improve mentalising), it is not yet known whether mentalising capacity develops over the course of psychiatric specialty training. To answer this robustly, we require comparison groups from other specialties to account for factors such as age or clinical experience.
We are therefore inviting resident doctors in O&G and other specialties to complete a brief, anonymous questionnaire (5–10 minutes) assessing mentalising. We hope to use the results from this study to better understand how we can improve patient outcomes, clinician wellbeing and reduce burnout across specialties.
Participation is entirely voluntary. You can access it through the link below.
https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bDCG9n3CWzG7gfI
This research has been approved by a UCL ethics committee and is GDPR compliant.
Any questions email: yasha.raiz.25@ucl.ac.uk or ruslan.zinchenko@lscft.nhs.uk