Cath Huntley
@CathJHuntley
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Consultant in Elderly Care, Director of Undergraduate Med Ed for Newcastle Uni at Northumbria NHS Trust. Mum to 2 beautiful children whom I adore! 💙
North East, England
Joined October 2016
"Caring for the souls of our students is an essential precursor to true learning." Wonderful essay in @synapsisjournal by #nmed faculty @Sayantani16 on #narrativemedicine, #pandemic pedagogy, and #radicalempathy
https://t.co/8mzmJIZ2yn
medicalhealthhumanities.com
Sayantani DasGupta, Author // Ibraim Nascimento, Painter // There is a rupture in higher education and in that rupture is an opportunity. As novelist Arundhati Roy (2020) has written, “Historically,...
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We've made a free information book explaining the coronavirus to children, illustrated by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, with expert input from @GrahamMedley - you can find out more and download the book for free here https://t.co/huA5bM76pA
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Pleased to announce Blood Drive #8 is taking place on Sun 28 April, Newc Donor Centre @GiveBloodNHS To book follow the link to the fb page or DM me #dosomethingamazing #savealife #GiveBlood
https://t.co/Je83f7Q5ha
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We are delighted to welcome one of the region’s leading consultants as the newly appointed Undergraduate Programme Lead here in the School of Medicine. #WeAreSun
https://t.co/9l5e8pEF9i
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Applying for an ST3 post? Introducing our new Flexible Portfolio Training (FPT) scheme. FPT gives you one protected day a week for your own professional development, and is open to trainees across 11 different specialties in the areas in the map below: https://t.co/LWk3v1gduo
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Read @CLOSLER post by @tinamengzhang who is leading our pilot study of @BedEdArtMed - she was initially skeptical of using art to teach learners in busy clinical settings, but now is leading the way! https://t.co/17LEuvYETY
@LehmannSlehman @Hopkins_IEE
closler.org
Medical education historically has been more focused on genes and molecules than understanding the human being as an individual. There has been a recent push to incorporate more humanities into...
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Delighted to see ‘watchful waiting’ recognised as a strategy when an older person is not themselves and yet no sign of significant pathology. Usually they don’t have a UTI and will get better with time. We recommend that with children. Why not older people? #dontbeadipstick
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Still time to register. Please spread the word. We want introduce #Melissa to all sectors involved in our local healthcare population #getonboard @MADEinHEENE @nhsfyp
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We understand that parents at another independent school have received a fraudulent message regarding payment in bitcoin. Whilst we are unaware of any Dame Allan's parents receiving a similar message, please note that the Schools would never request payment in crypto currency.
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I Daniel Blake is being shown - January 5th at 9.45pm on BBC2, please watch it, we're in it. We face this and worse every day...
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Empowering more patients with a new dose of realistic medicine: @benjaminoc in conversation with our own @JeremyRushmer on why we all need to be more 'realistic' about medicine, what it can do for us and our own role in staying healthy and/or recovery https://t.co/MEePyPqbxw
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“Most medical education takes place in hospitals ....If you’re only seeing the hospitalised elderly, the debilitated, the demented , it’s easy to pick up ageist stereotypes “.
nytimes.com
At more than 20 medical schools in the United States, students are getting an earful — about life, about perspective — from healthy seniors.
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Blood Drive 25th Nov, Newcastle Donor Centre. 20/60 slots left which is amazing, but nice to fill more! @GiveBloodNHS Also looking for any raffle prizes. Proceeds split between @Bloodwise @BrainTumourOrg
#savealife #giveblood DM or
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Event in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom by Nicola Robinson and Claire Smith on Sunday, November 25 201829 posts in the discussion.
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Come along to the restaurant at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital today to find out how you can get more involved in undergrad medical education @NorthumbriaNHS
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Trainees in local survey wanted to find out more about how to get involved in #geriatrics research - here you go! Open to consultants too. #yousaidwedid @ElderlyMedEd
NERO (North-East Research Opportunities) for Geriatricians - 6th December afternoon at @NIHRNewcBRC. Full details at https://t.co/tNxtLNmAF9 and register at https://t.co/MqifqOW5Da. Speakers include @AvanSayer @OlderTrialsProf @suba_thiru. Hope to see you there! #academicgeris
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They are making a huge difference in the North East https://t.co/jkkBQcsorz
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I wonder what’s happening here. What can we learn from the humanities to help with physician burnout @Medicalenglishb
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