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Jan 2025
41m 19s

Parenting and the impact on training

Royal College of Anaesthetists
About this episode
In this podcast, Dr Gemma Phillips and Dr Yogita Chikermane discuss the impact of parenting on anaesthetic training.

They share their own experiences, talk about how things might have changed since then (or not), and what still needs to change to help anaesthetists navigate the often competing demands of anaesthetic training and parenting.

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