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She stopped off at the reception desk and rang down to the eency department to reassure them that she was on her way, then ushered him out of the department

‘So talkstuff,’ he said

‘You knoell as I do, we have a recruitment crisis in our specialty,’ she said ‘All the surveys say that students don’t want to work in obs and gynae because they have such a bad tiet under the feet of the midwives, or they’re stuck in the furthest corner of an operating theatre watching a Caesarean’

‘So they never really get to do any of the work and they don’t feel part of the team’

‘Exactly,’ Madison said ‘We’re organised nowadays so the tea a “firistrar and house officers who alork together, and in a way that’s a shame because it makes it harder for junior doctors to settle into the teale point of contact in a depart on Yes, they have to sort out their logbooks and what have you, but they also need proper contact with patients and they need real jobs to do if they’re to get the best out of their attachment’

‘Responsibilities for soested

That earned hieous smiles ‘Absolutely On our ward, we have two students at a ti, and they attend my clinic and theatre sessions’

‘Are you pure obstetrics?’ Theo asked

She nodded ‘Though I’m interested in foetal medicine as well’

‘So what about the gynae work?’

‘I liaise with the consultants and the other registrars so the students get sessions with them, too—but I’m still their point of contact if they’re worried about anything, or if they want to see more of a particular subspecialty outside pure obstetrics I also get them to spend time with the midwives, so they develop a rapport and a bit of respect for our colleagues, as well as a chance to see some low-risk births’

‘Instead of thinking that life in our ward is all epidurals and eood I notice you have a sensory room here’

‘And a water-birth suite We want ourexperience possible Our midwives are fantastic, and we only intervene e’re asked for help’