Michigan Surgery Sessions

Surgery. It's more than scalpels and sutures. Join hosts from the Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery as they bring you stories about the latest in surgical clinical care, education and more with faculty, residents and medical students.

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Surgery. It's more than scalpels and sutures. Join hosts from the Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery as they bring you stories about the latest in surgical clinical care, education and more with faculty, residents and medical students.

Michigan Medicine is the academic medical center for the University of Michigan. The Michigan Surgery Sessions podcast is part of the Michigan Medicine Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Michigan Surgery Sessions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Intersectionality

The factors that drive discrimination and disadvantage are more complex than we realize—and they are often overlapping and interdependent.That’s where intersectionality comes in. What is it, and how does it relate to underrepresented and marginalized groups advancing in surgery specifically and medicine generally? We cap off the Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative mini-series with a robust and frank discussion about the role of intersectionality in making medicine a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

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Beyond HeForShe

The HeForShe movement focused on the role of men on accelerating gender equality. Is it time to close up shop on this movement, or is there still work to do? If the work isn’t done, what does getting it done look like?

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Beyond Fixing Women

Women in surgery don’t need fixing. Their surgical outcomes are as good or better than their male counterparts’, for starters. What they need are individual strategies to overcome the achievement gap and put impostor syndrome to rest.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Healthcare

If we want our health care systems to be patient-centered, we need a workforce that reflects the patient population. If we want an inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace, we need to be intentional about how we get there.

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Implementing Strategies in a Change-Averse Environment

Implementing strategies is always challenging. Doing it in a change-averse or hostile environment makes it even more so. We continue the Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative mini-series with a discussion about how to move forward when the going isn’t so easy—and strategies for successful implementation in difficult environments.

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Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative

The Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative (MWSC) has built its mission around highlighting the barriers to achievement for female surgeons and inspiring real change to remove those barriers. On this episode, we talk with two members of the leadership team of the MWSC to understand how the group set the stage for such work, and discuss the work still to be done.

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