Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

This week we were lucky enough to have a masterclass with Dr. Helen Macrae, a colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai in Toronto. We talked about her career in surgical education. We then leveraged Dr. Macrae's considerable expertise and got her approach to the acute colitic, laparoscopic total colectomy, and pelvic pouch reconstruction.

Links:

1. Teaching Surgical Skills — Changes in the Wind. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/nejmra054785

2. E24 Richard Reznick On Competency - Based Medical Education.  https://soundcloud.com/cjs-podcast/e24-richard-reznick-on-competency-based-medical-education/s-eAqN5PDEoyG

3. Treatment of hospitalized adult patients with severe ulcerative colitis: Toronto consensus statements. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22108451/

Bio (https://surgery.utoronto.ca/content/helen-macrae)

Dr. MacRae received a B.Sc. and M.D. from the University of Alberta. She did her General Surgery training in Alberta, as well. Following this, she spent two years in the Colorectal Surgery Program at the University of Toronto, before joining the faculty in January 1997. Most recently, she completed a mini-sabbatical in laproscopic surgery at the Wellesley Hospital. 

Dr. MacRae's clinical interests are in the areas of inflammatory bowel disease, and laproscopic colon surgery. Her research interests are in the field of surgical education.  She is Director for the Colorectal Surgery Residency Program.

Creators and Guests

Host
Dr. Ameer Farooq

What is Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast?

The podcast dedicated to discussing how surgeons can be the best versions of themselves, inside and outside the operating room. Hosted by surgeons Chad Ball and Ameer Farooq, Cold Steel explores the many facets of surgical life with guests at the cutting edge of surgical science. The official podcast of the Canadian Journal of Surgery.