{"id":8545,"date":"2021-03-26T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=987"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:59:10","slug":"21-03-26-cmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/executive-messages\/cmo\/21-03-26-cmo","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Acting Chief Medical Officer: Alex Chaudhuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>After a month of acting in the role of Chief Medical Officer I would like to reflect on the themes of purpose and professionalism.\u00a0Having met nearly all directors of clinical training at Metro North I was heartened by how driven they were to also inculcate in our trainees the ethos of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The Hippocratic oath as we know it (and as many would know) is actually a contemporary rewriting of the original but the themes remain \u2013 professionalism, diligence, humility, empathy and scholarship. It struck me that these directors of clinical training foster equally the development of non-clinical attributes that make the best of us.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to meet shortly to share ideas on how our education programs could be structured to provide the leadership skills we expect our doctors to have; and then implement it.\u00a0I\u2019m grateful to Dr Catriona Slater, Dr Amber Winter, Dr Stephanie Hadikusomo and Dr James Macdonald for including me in what I envisage will be a joint effort for all our junior doctors at Metro North. I also look forward to participating in junior doctor training in all our hospitals, in my favourite subject of clinical reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, you will be pleased to know that our access to <em>UpToDate <\/em>has been renewed the next five years. Investment in this resource was significant given the number of doctors in our health service. I would like to thank sincerely our hospitals\u2019 Executive Directors for funding this from their operational budget.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I would like to sign off with an aphorism from Dr Edward Trudeau, an accomplished American physician who also established the first laboratory to study tuberculosis in the US.\u00a0Despite the advances of modern medicine, our vocation challenges us with sickness and death despite our best efforts. It is a quote I occasionally reflect on during ward rounds, when confronted with the inevitabilities of our profession.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort\u2026always.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to providing further updates next month. If I can assist in the meantime, please feel free to contact me by email.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Alex<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Message from the Acting Chief Medical Officer: Alex Chaudhuri - Staff Extranet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Message from the Acting Chief Medical Officer: Alex Chaudhuri - 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