I recently spoke at the fantastic AGN 2018 conference in Graz, Austria. My talk was a slightly modified version of “My Mental Toughness Manifesto”. The talk was live streamed, and a youtube video has since been uploaded (see above). It’s been quite a journey getting to this point. The blog posts, podcasts and talks I’ve […]
PonderMed #2: Professor Tony Young, NHS innovator-in-chief
[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6125977/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/c8243c/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”] Want more of Professor Young? Twitter – @DrTonyYoung LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/drtonyyoung The MedTech Campus The Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Links to key talking points from the podcast Professor Simon Carley’s blog explaining the ‘learning choreographer’ concept The new Anglia Ruskin Medical School Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed Healthcare Safety Investigation […]
Olympians and Comedians #PerformanceLDN
Traditionally, human factors and performance psychology are low down the priority list (or non-existent) in medical training. Students graduate from medical school with ‘academic-style’ mindsets, arguably ill-prepared for the practical, performance-dependent branches of medicine. In short, our training predisposes us to the yips. But change is afoot. On 24th June, I attended the London Performance Psychology Symposium at the Blizard Institute, close […]
‘My Mental Toughness Manifesto’ Part 4: PROCESS
Everything in aviation we know because someone somewhere died… We have purchased, at great cost, lessons literally bought with blood… We cannot have the moral failure of forgetting these lessons and have to relearn them.” Sully Sullenberger Pilot of Flight 1549, ‘The Miracle on the Hudson’ All frontline healthcare warriors will bear scars from emotionally […]
