Dr Ruth Vilayil

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

This book reframes conflict not as something to win or avoid, but to hold.

Conflict tolerance isn’t a soft skill, it’s a core skill in healthcare today.

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#Leadership #ConflictResolution #HealthcareLeadership #MedEd #EmotionalIntelligence

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In medicine we’re trained to treat disease, not navigate workplace conflict. It can feel like running a Code Blue without any ACLS cards.

My book review of Conflict Resilience by @bobbordone.bsky.social & Joel Salinas is out in CJPL ➡️

it's CaRMS reference letter season - annual reminder to use a gender bias checker prior to submitting those letters! The bias is unconcious so it's nice to have a third party to help with blind spots.
#MedSky #WomeninMedicine
www.tomforth.co.uk/genderbias/

Proud of UBC’s work on this

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chart from the McKinsey report

"[McKinsey] finds that Canadian women spend 24 percent more time than men in poor health and with varying degrees of disability."
driven by the efficacy gap, care delivery gap and data gap. @sogc.org
#womenshealth #CanadaSky
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post from Branch for Global Surgical Care with all the GSL members who presented

amazing representation of Branch for Global Surgical Care at Chung Research Day yesterday!
@ubcmedicine.bsky.social

#MedEdSky #GlobalSurgery #SurgicalEducation

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Selfie of OP at VGH

Photo of Ops mom in purple jacket

Full circle moment 💙
Presented our work on Nontechnical Skills for Surgeons at Chung Research Day at VGH — the same hospital where my mom was born 78 years ago today.

Grateful for her, this journey, and everyone advancing #MedEd & #SurgicalEducation.

Some takeaways from #ICRE2025
💡 Balancing #psychsafety with productive struggle is an ongoing art in learning.
🎭 #Improv helps us embody that balance through vulnerability, curiosity, and play.
💙Trust and connection aren’t extras but essential.
Time well spent! @icreconf.bsky.social

Picture of workshop team with ICRE electric letters

Selfie of OP with canmeds flower

Can confirm, improv is fun and brings learning along with it! Thanks #ICRE2025 for having us
#nontechnicalskills #medicalimprov

Stories go where data cannot.

We need a culture change in healthcare! We deserve to thrive in our medical careers. Wellness and mastery are not opposites.

#ICRE2025 #wellness

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Royal college JGME top resident research sign

Kaid presenting our work on #MedicalImprov and Nontechnical Skills for Surgeons #NOTSS in the Top Resident Research session!

Such a joy to see the next gen bringing creativity, reflection, and a love of the arts into surgical education. 🎭🔪💡
#MedEdSky #Surgery #ICRE2025 @icreconf.bsky.social

Great plenary session at @icreconf.bsky.social discussing adaptive expertise and psychological safety in the learning space #ICRE2025. Speakers explored the relationship between productive struggle and flexibility and creativity. #MedSky

Faculty tend to teach how they were taught. Concepts like productive struggle are complex & (sometimes) uncomfortable for faculty. Where are safe spaces for faculty to practice these skills, so they can integrate into clinical teaching confidently? A call for engagement with FacDev? #ICRE2025

So interesting! I wonder if graded assertiveness would work here, ie concerned, uncomfortable, —> stop this isn’t safe (CUSS)

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Situational awareness = more than noticing.
It’s about revising your mental model as things change and understanding others’ perspectives.
Loved exploring this in today’s #ICRE2025 SimTrek session. #MedEd #Simulation #Nontechnicalskills

Selfie of OP and Simon

Rolled up to the session and found an empty chair next to the one and only
@orthopodreg.bsky.social 👀

…AND lecturer from my alma mater on the other side

Safe to say my inner #meded nerd is having a moment

❤️ the convos already!
#ICRE2025 #Quebec #MedEdSky #SurgSky @icreconf.bsky.social

Hi hope to see you too! 👋

Selfie of OP in front of J’aime Quebec sign

Selfie of OP at RCPSC sign

Took my wind-swept self straight over to the “promoting trust & connection” community of practice session
#ICRE2025 #quebec

On my way from west coast! 💃

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

"Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky" (a study) h/t @colesci.bsky.social

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Too true. Task sharing may be one solution such as training general surgeons and GPs to do basic procedures in other specialties. Time to get creative and learn from Indonesia etc !

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Bonjour Québec! Looking forward to seeing everyone at #ICRE2025 tomorrow!

We have been under training OBGYNs for the need in Canada for years now.

US Pediatricians’ Reports of Feeling Unsafe at Work: Experiences with Harassment and Attacks Examine pediatrician-reported experiences with harassment and attacks related to misinformation and feeling unsafe at work. Compare characteristics an…

Maddening how the spread of #misinformation has made work in healthcare even MORE stressful.

US Pediatricians’ Reports of Feeling Unsafe at Work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Pediatricians are not immune from workplace harassment and attacks with the growth of misinformation."

If you’re at #ICRE2025 and want authentic, candid, glorious conversations, you should chat to these folk

If they’re busy…I guess, I’ll be there too

#MedSky #MedEd #mentor @icreconf.bsky.social

Workforce density is such an important concept we teach in global surgery. In rural Canada we don’t reach recommended SAO densities either and it’s starting to show.

Amazing! This will be spoken of for generations.
#GlobalSurgery #CanadaSky
@heiltsuk-paleo.bsky.social

Obstetrician and gynaecologist engagement in global surgery: adding necessary value to the field In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) demonstrated that 5 billion people lack adequate access to essential surgery, obstetric and anaesthesia care and set clear global targets for 2...

Yesssss! As I like to quote “Women need equitable surgical care throughout their lives – not just during childbirth.” -Prof Salome Maswime
Include #OBGYNs in #GlobalSurgery and vice versa

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