Dr. Suzette Sutherland
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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And if I don't have that, you can't keep me moving. And there's our shortage, right? So, yeah, which then, of course, leads to the next big topic, burnout, right? Why don't you go ahead and talk about that, what you found in the census?
Yeah, it's hugely important or we won't be able to move forward, right? We know everyone needs a helping hand at times and being able to do that confidently and confidentiality you know, that's what we all need. And then the next area is for, you know, diversity, equity and inclusion, looking at discrimination, harassment in the workforce.
I was pretty astounded again to see, you know, the differences here, how many people have witnessed some type of a harassment or discriminatory event and how many people have experienced. Both were close to the 30 percent area. So a third of our urologists are experiencing and or you know, seeing it.
And for women, of course, the numbers are higher than for men, women more around gender and sexual harassment, men often around bullying and violence. It's just really astounding. You know, of course, now this is feeding into the burnout. You know, if you're doing the best you can during the day, Being the best person you think you can be and suddenly, you know, somebody's bullying you.
Yeah, it certainly, you know, makes you want to go home.
Yeah. And then the last area for us to talk about, we're running out of time here, but is the area of ergonomics. That's such a hot topic today. I had the privilege of hosting Dr. Kristen Krauser from the University of Michigan on a Backtable Urology episode that we entitled, I Love My Job, But It's Killing Me, and all the statistics around that.
So you were able to glean some statistics here too about the the impact the ergonomics has and people even retiring early because of musculoskeletal issues and what our trainees are telling us even, right? The young ones, we think it's the older ones that are having trouble and they're going to retire anyway.
But my goodness, Dr. Nielsen, you've been on practice longer and with your geo-oncology, probably do a lot of robotics. I noticed in the questions, it was laparoscopy and robotics that was pulled out. That maybe is a question for Dr. North, but why that versus, you know, I do a lot of vaginal surgery. I'm sitting, but I still have back issues, right? And because of the ergonomics.
But anyway, in your practice and what you've seen and with residents, so on and so forth, how big of an issue is it? And what kind of things do you do in your program to try and mitigate them?
It is one that's great to have in conversation here with our residents as well and fellows, and they're the ones, I think, to your point, are really leading this, saying, hey, this is my future, and we want to have more formal training around this.
So they're really squawking at the ACGME to make it part of residency training, make a core curriculum out of this, which is wonderful that they're doing that. But it is really, really important as we look at our workforce shortage here And what are we doing to ourselves, right? We're making it even shorter if we can't get out of bed in the morning because we're too sore, right?
Yeah, it's such an important thing.
So my question again for you then is that the questions were specific towards laparoscopic and robotic cases. Do you see that more with those cases? I mean, I've sat at the council too, but I also feel like standing up out over a body is just as taxing.
Well, I think we hit, you know, most of the main take home categories there. Is there anything else we didn't hit that you were really passionate about wanting to discuss today, either one of you?
Yeah, good. And then with that rotating schedule, what are the additional topics that we can expect?
And Dr. Nielsen, any final thoughts or words of wisdom?
Well, thank you. That was really wonderful. Most sincerely, thank you to both Dr. Amanda North and Dr. Matt Nielsen for sharing your vast expertise and experience with us about this AUA census. And we look forward to what the data tells us for next year. Maybe we'll hold another one and see what the differences were. It would be quite enlightening.
And thanks to everyone, to all our listeners, once again. Your support for these programs is really invaluable. We do hope that you find that these podcasts enhance your understanding of current issues in urology, and we strive to be your informative resource for all things urological. Until next time, I'm Dr. Suzette Sutherland, your host for Backtable Urology Podcast, signing off.
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