Welcome to Season 2 of WENTS & Friends

Podcast host Alex Ashman introduces our second season of podcast episodes.

WENTS & Friends is the official podcast for Women in ENT Surgery UK.
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Thank you to all of our guests for this season and to Karl Storz UK and the ENT UK Foundation for sponsoring season two of Went and Friends, the podcast of Women in ENT Surgery.

This season’s episodes are hosted by Alex Ashman. Produced and directed by Heather Pownall @heathershub of Heather's Media Hub Ltd. The podcast was created by Ekpemi Irune. The rest of the team includes Anna Slovick, Katherine Conroy, Marie Lyons, Tanya Ta, and Alex Ashman.

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Karl Storz are proud sponsors of this podcast. Discover why Karl Storz is the name synonymous with innovation, precision, and excellence in the world of surgical endoscopy.

Summy
It's the last chance before you are a consultant to get some precious training. You're like, oh OK

Alex 
This is Wents and Friends, the podcast of Women in ENT Surgery. I'm Alex Ashman, your host for Season 2. This season we'll be looking at key career advice on returning to training, working less than full time and applying for fellowships. And we'll be looking at factors that can make the working lives of women and minority individuals more challenging. We'll be talking to Ms Michaella Cameron about taking leave and returning to training.

Michaella 
I do one challenge this from the outdated idea of what a typical surgeon looks like.

Alex 
More here from Ms Lizzie Maughan about combining research and clinical work.

Lizzie 
Whereas the research headspace comes from you and it's generative and you have to really bring yourself to the table because there's no one else to bring it.

Alex 
We'll be chatting with Miss Sadie Khwaja about imposter syndrome & confidence, and psychological safety.

Sadie
As a surgeon, we are perfectionists and doubt is part of who we are because that makes us good surgeons.

Alex 
We'll be hearing from Miss Ellie Warner and Miss Summy Bola

Ellie
It's really interesting to see that actually there's many different ways of doing it and know coming across completely different techniques and different prostheses and even down to kind of grommets that they're using. Everything's quite different.

Alex 
And I'll be talking to Mairead Kelly about Less Than Full Time Training.

Mairead
One of the best bits that were the NHS. The expectation that patients to be less than a full time will at least be considered.

Alex 
We'll be releasing a new episode every Thursday from now until October, so make sure you subscribe to WENTS and Friends, the podcast of women in ENT Surgery UK. We're on Twitter, threads, Instagram and LinkedIn, so make sure you follow us for details of upcoming episodes. We're really looking forward to it.


So I hope to see you soon.